User talk:John Bricker (Tennis Player)

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Bricker (Tennis Player) (May 18)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by JamesBWatson was:

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JamesBWatson (talk) 21:01, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Various editing problems
After declining your article for creation submission, I discovered the following further problems.
 * 1) It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account.
 * 2) You have posted five pages all with the same content. Please don't do that, as it causes various problems, such as making it difficult to keep track of what is where, and in any case it serves no useful purpose.
 * 3) A Wikipedia user page is for someone who is active in working for the project to give a little information about himself or herself in connection with his or her work for the encyclopaedia: it is not a place to post a personal web page, unrelated to work for Wikipedia. Likewise, aWikipedia talk page is for messages and discussions about work for the encyclopaedia: it is not a place to post content unrelated to work for the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:14, 18 May 2019 (UTC)