User talk:GeographicusAntiqueMaps

Speedy deletion of "Alvin Jewitt Johnson"
A page you created, Alvin Jewitt Johnson, has been tagged for deletion, as it meets one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion; specifically, it is about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how they are important or significant, and thus why they should be included in an encyclopedia. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and the guidelines for biographies in particular.

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Thank you. Tyler |  Talk  -  Contributions  | 22:50, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Joseph Hutchins Colton
A tag has been placed on Joseph Hutchins Colton requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. andy (talk) 15:19, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Alvin Jewitt Johnson
A tag has been placed on Alvin Jewitt Johnson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. andy (talk) 15:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Alvin Jewitt Johnson
A tag has been placed on Alvin Jewitt Johnson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. andy (talk) 15:38, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because it has been identified as an account used for promotion of a company or group, with a username that implies that this has been done by that company or group. See Business' FAQ and Conflict of interest.

This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia policies. In addition, the use of a username like yours violates our username policy.

You may appeal this block by adding the text  or emailing the administrator who blocked you. Your reason should include your response to this issue and a new username you wish to adopt that does not violate our username policy (specifically, understand that accounts are for individuals, not companies or groups, and that your username should reflect this). Usernames that have already been taken are listed here.

re: your email
Hi there.

Let's deal with the easy bit first - your username - you have two choices, you can either follow the instructions in the block notice above and request a change on this page, or, and I think that in this case where you have no substantive edit history to take with you is the best option, you can just simply go create a new one and carry on editing.

Now on to the articles. I don't think that there is any big question mark over the notability of the cartographers - I read the articles before they were deleted and have subsequently done a little research of my own and yes, I think that the cartographers meet the notability requirements...... but (you knew there was a but coming), the reason that they were deleted is because they were copyright violations. I note that you say you own the copyright and that is a good start as you can then release it to GFDL. GDFL is the "copyleft" licence that Wikipedia uses and which basically means that it is available for anyone to use anywhere they like either as posted or changed as they wish. There are two ways to confirm to us that the text has been released:
 * If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on your website a statement which releases all its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later.
 * or
 * Send written confirmation that the text has been released to GFDL which should be forwarded to the email address "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org"

You should not post any material until one or other of these processes has been done, and you should indicate on the talk page of any article which uses the "copyright" text how it has been released.

Second "but" coming here. In your email you say "The knowledge I have is knowledge that can only have been acquired by years working with these items as a dealer and compiling data in bits and pieces. Therefore, the reference to my website and my own work is the only available reference". This is I am afraid a bit of a problem and would be what on Wikipedia is called original research and is not allowed -  Wikipedia does not publish original thought: all material in Wikipedia must be attributable to a reliable, published source. However, all is not lost as again I did a bit of research myself and found references in Google Books and Google Scholar which could be used.

Finally there is no problem with using your images - I saw from the articles that they had been uploaded to commons and are PD. One of the suggestions of promotion/advertising came from the fact that in the caption of the images you used a phrase along the lines of "by permission of your co name", which, as the images are on commons and in the public domain was entirely unnecessary and may have looked like a way to publicise your website, also I believe the images had a reference which included a weblink to your sales site, again looking a bit spammy. These would have been removed even if the articles had not been copyvios and even if you had a completely unrelated username.

As I said at the top, I don't think that there is a particular question mark over notability here so it is all down to getting the copyright issue resolved and then making sure that our core content policies of neutrality, verifiability and no original research are followed.

My suggestion would be that you create a new user, start to pull the new articles together in your own userpace first & drop me a note on my talk page so that I can help you get them in to shape before they are launched in to mainspace. You might even get a Did you know? on the mainpage out of them!

Kind regards,

Nancy talk  09:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)