User talk:G St-Germain

Your contributed article, General Emile Armand Gibon (1813-1870)


Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, General Emile Armand Gibon (1813-1870). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as yourself. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Emile Armand Gibon. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Emile Armand Gibon - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Referencing
I see that you have been putting URLs at various places in the article, but not as references. Perhaps you could read Referencing for beginners? I did change one URL to a reference yesterday, but you need to do something similar for the others which you have subsequently added. - David Biddulph (talk) 04:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Please, please, please, pay attention to David Biddulph's advice. Fixing all your inline external links is becoming tedious! Roger (talk) 11:28, 15 November 2011 (UTC)


 * You have been told, not just by me but by at least one other editor, NOT to use inline external links but to use references instead, but you are carrying on doing it. Please read what you are being told, here and in the edit summaries on the page, and take note.  If you carry on doing what you have been told not to do, your edits will continue to be reverted.  We are trying to help you, but you are not listening. If you don't understand what we are telling you in English, you may be better editing the French Wikipedia instead.  - David Biddulph (talk) 11:34, 15 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Ambox warning pn.svg Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. WP:AGF can go only so far.  I don't know whether you are deliberately ignoring what you are being told, or whether you do not understand English, but I see that today's new article is full of inline external links. Continuing to do so after the polite warnings you have received is going to be regarded as disruptive editing, and in an extreme if you cannot contribute constructively to the project you are likely to be blocked to prevent further disruption. In case you hadn't picked it up from the welcome links which you were given earlier, the guidance on external links is at WP:EL. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I think some of the frustration is that you (G St-German) could and hopefully *will* be a very strong editor, you are adding pages for people that I think should be added (as opposed to articles for professors at University of Telugu or something similar) and you are certainly willing to do the research. It may be worthwhile for you to look at the format of some other articles somewhere close to the subject and do your best to make them look like that.
 * François Rochebrune
 * François Certain Canrobert
 * Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud

Naraht (talk) 17:39, 17 November 2011 (UTC)


 * You are still using inline external links in Charles Nicolas Lacretelle after you have been told many times that it is unacceptable. Roger (talk) 21:32, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

French version of the article?
Do you intend to make a French version of the article at fr.wikipedia.org?Naraht (talk) 11:20, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I will make a French version of this article, once I have more time on hand to read all the information about layout, editing, inserting pictures, making references instead of using URL links, etc.. (as I have "been told"). Thank you also for your assistance in making this article. I have one picture to insert (could not find an easy way to do it) and still waiting for proper authorisation on other pictures.--G St-Germain (talk) 02:31, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

*No* all capitalized last names
Wikipedia articles do *not* put last names in all capitalized letters.Naraht (talk) 12:43, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Section headings
... and we don't put section headings in upper case, either. Please read the Manual of Style. Also, please remember to put a section heading for References. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:04, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Pictures Copyrights
Honestly, You dont make this easy for starters. I just uploaded a picture from Charles Nicolas Lacretelle which was made over 120 years ago by a private photoghrapher in Beaucouzé on our family property.. I have to apologise if I do not have enought time to read and decrypt all the necessary wikipedia manuals and files regarding the proper publishing of media.

Lacretelle published himself copies of this picture for a political campaign in 1888. The original photo was kept by my grand mother (his niece) and enlarged for a family portrait which is today my property. However, for the past 100 years, copies of this image has been circulating around the world and even used in 1907 by a French publishing company (that no longer exist) who published his memoirs after his death without the consent of his daughter in law (and unique heir) Laure Helen Marguerite Gibon (my great grand mother). So if anyone wants to challenge the copyright of this picture (which has also been in Public Domain for 12 decades), they can be my guest anytime!! Personally, I have no issues with the removal of this picture from wikipedia if this is a source of problem. Yours sincerely — Preceding unsigned comment added by G St-Germain (talk • contribs) 14:29, 15 December 2011‎ (UTC)


 * It is the copy in Commons which has been flagged as missing the licence info, see your talk page in commons. - David Biddulph (talk) 14:51, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Général Charles Nicolas Lacretelle.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Général Charles Nicolas Lacretelle.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:20, 17 December 2011 (UTC)