User talk:Jkloville

Colin Westerbeck
Dear Jkloville, thanks for creating the article above, and Welcome to Wikipedia!. I'd like to request that you take some time to familiarize yourself with the policies that are core to the encyclopedia, important among those is the neutrality policy, and the biographies of living persons policy. When you start an article by saying "Colin Westerbeck is one of the most important sources on the subject of photography today.", this is not neutral. I've cleaned the article up, and formatted it per the manual of style, but I'd like to give you this box full of other helpful policies and guidelines, as they are quite important. Take a look through them, and I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia! Ariel ♥ Gold 04:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC) ---

Dear Jkloville, hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'd like to take this opportunity to provide information related to creating articles. First, make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please review the following relevant policies and guidelines. Remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so articles must not contain original research, should cite to reliable sources which verify their content, must be written from a neutral point of view, and can not contain unsourced, negative content about living people, and finally, must not be copied from any other source.

In addition, articles need to assert the notability of the subject. Please see our subject-specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content. Also be aware that if you are closely associated with the subject, (or are writing about yourself) the conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating or editing the article.

If you still think your article is appropriate, see Help:Starting a new page. You might also look at Your first article and How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. If you would prefer to get input prior to creating the article, to avoid the possibility that it may be deleted, feel free to post your suggestions at the articles for creation page. Sincerely, Ariel ♥  Gold 04:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Gerry badger


The article Gerry badger has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners or ask at Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Shashwat986 (talk) 04:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism for Gerry Badger
Your article on Gerry Badger was a copy of this one on the website of the Prix Pictet. At the foot of that page we read © 2010 Prix Pictet. There's nothing there about copyleft, let alone anything explicit about release under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License or the GFDL. There's therefore no clear reason not to think that this was plagiarism.

When you create or add to an article, you do so in a box immediately above the line Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted. Please do not repeat such reproduction of material that's neither clearly in the public domain nor clearly released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License or the GFDL: doing so is illegal and it wastes others' time. -- Hoary (talk) 23:23, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Killip and Westerbeck
It turns out that your first version of Chris Killip is remarkably similar to this (Copyright © 2004 Photographers at Duckspool - All rights reserved). One might surmise that the copying was in the opposite direction, but the Duckspool article includes a remarkably awkward sentence in which In Flagrante and Martin Parr both appear, whereas just two minutes after creating the WP article you smoothed this out, removing mention of Parr.

Your other article creation has been Colin Westerbeck. But did you write it yourself? -- Hoary (talk) 23:44, 9 October 2010 (UTC)