User talk:Johnrodell

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as HMS Worcester, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.hms-worcester.co.uk/hstory1.html etc.. As a copyright violation, HMS Worcester appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. HMS Worcester has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source. If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:HMS Worcester. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at HMS Worcester, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.

I note that your user name matches the author of those pages. Nevertheless I would like some evidence - for example place a statement on your site that Wikipedia has permission to use the material. But in any case it is, in my view, an insult to spend half an hour copying your site here and think that you have created a Wikipedia article. Re the article in its present form: May I suggest that you create a short article (no more than 2 kbytes but including a link to your site of course) and let us see what others add to it? You are welcome here, despite my comments! -- RHaworth 18:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * since the material is already of the web, why put it here - just create a link to it
 * it needs to be wikified
 * it is daunting to other editors who may have valuable additions that they can make.