User talk:JDKnight

Copying from the Los Alamos website
Hi there. You can't just copy and paste material in from the Los Alamos website.

There are two reasons for this: 1. Los Alamos's copyright policy specifies that a large attribution statement must be printed on all copies of material reused from their website (see our template at PD-LosAlamos). In practice this means Wikipedia can use their images but not their text. 2. It is considered bad form to copy and paste text material in most cases.

You are, however, welcome to use the Los Alamos material as a basis for re-writing in your own words the same information. Copyright governs specific expressions of ideas and facts, not the ideas and facts themselves. If you did that it would be of great benefit to Wikipedia.

You also can't copy and paste material from websites of private organizations like the American Philosophical Society. They own copyright on their work and we cannot relicense it under the GFDL without their permission. See Copyrights for more information on our copyright policies.

Hope that makes sense. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions about this. I do of course appreciate the urge to expand the scientist stubs! I talked to Philip Morrison on the phone once about three weeks before he passed away regarding some Manhattan Project history -- he was very helpful and very kind. --Fastfission 13:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Ron Hoeflin
A tag has been placed on Ron Hoeflin, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:Ron Hoeflin. An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such material.Diez2 22:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hey - I really liked the work you did on the page with the Generational information of the 110th Congress. I love lists like that. Thanks again, Mrmaroon25 22:23, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Relative costs of Amerian wars
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

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. Wheelchair Epidemic (talk) 23:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)