User talk:Gsilva12

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Hello, Gsilva12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type helpme on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! aηsuмaη  ༽Ϟ  08:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters


A tag has been placed on Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page 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 page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. aηsuмaη  ༽Ϟ  08:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:Imgres.jpeg
Thanks for uploading File:Imgres.jpeg. You don't seem to have said where the image came from, who created it, or what the copyright status is. We require this information to verify that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia, and because most image licenses require giving credit to the image's creator.

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Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 23:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on Lulu Hunt Peters
Hi there! I found your new page because I try to add links to Project Gutenberg authors. Thanks for your work. It was a good start and it is getting better, which is just how Wikipedia is supposed to work. I'm sorry that your very first experience here at Wikipedia resulted in an attempted speedy deletion and hassles about the image you added. Please do not be discouraged by this: It was a bit more abrupt than is typical for a first submittal, but it appears to be getting resolved.

Here is what I think happened. First, you added a starter article, what in Wikipedia terms we call a "stub." Since we get a whole lot of useless starter articles, an editor who specializes in "new page patrolling" made a drive-by assessment that the article was about someone who is non-notable, so the editor tagged it for a "speedy deletion." The patrollers do not in general have the ability to actually delete an article. An editor who does have that authority took a look, did a quick Google search, and realized that Dr. Peters may in fact be a real and notable person, and declined to delete. Problem solved? not quite yet. It's possible that someone (any editor) might decide to proceed to the formal "articles for deletion" process. However, you have added sufficient material that this is no longer likely, and if any editor should take that step, the deletion would certainly be declined at this point. Congratulations! You are now a Wikipedian!

OK, but what about the picture? It appears that you own a copy of an early edition of the book (probably a 1921 or 1922 printing) and you simply took a picture of the book and uploaded it. That's great. Thanks! However, you did not explicitly tell us that this is what you did. This puts us into the strange realm of copyright law. the Wikipedia servers reside in the United States, and as a matter of policy, common sense, and moral decency, we adhere to the law, including specifically copyright law. Copyright law is complicated, but some parts are simple. If you took a picture of a book that was published in the US prior to 1923, then the book is in the public domain and the picture is your own creative work, to which you own a copyright. You need to tell us that this is the case, and that you give Wikipedia a license to use your picture. If you do not do this, we will be forced to remove the picture to make sure that we are not breaking the law. I personally think that copyright law is overly restrictive, but I did not make the law, and I understand why Wikipedia trys very hard to stay legal.

If you find this to be too discouraging, then please reply here and I will replace your image with another and I will go through jump through all the correct procedural hoops.

One of the ways to make it obvious that an article is about a notable subject, is to link TO the article FROM other articles. You can find existing links to your article by clicking on the "What links here" item in the left-hand sidebar. Usually, but not always, a new article will have no links. You can find articles that have have the name of your new article by using the "search" box. I did this and found several articles, and I changes the text in those articles to links to your new article.

Again, thanks, and again, welcome. -Arch dude (talk) 00:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC)