User talk:Jrjourney23

Speedy deletion of Hazel Smith
A tag has been placed on Hazel Smith requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

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. Ged UK (talk) 21:31, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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The article I posted was simply the Hazel Smith biography from CMT.com. It was all I could find on Ms. Hazel Smith online as she doesn't have an official website or even an artist page on any other site. I would have quoted the CMT site or added them as a reference, but I didn't know how. I read the page about starting a new article and couldn't quite understand it. If someone could explain to me how to set up the references, I would be glad to re-write the piece and back-track to CMT for their article. I just thought that Ms. Hazel needed an article of her own for all the contributions she's made to the American music scene, namely the country music scene.

Is there an editor out there who can explain this to me? I wasn't trying to violate any rules or laws, merely trying to improve wikipedia's country music coverage of one fine lady in general ...

- J.R. Journey


 * Hi there. Basically, just copy and pasting big lumps of text from another website is likely to break copyright laws. This isn't a Wikipedia policy as such, but is designed to stop Wikipedia getting sued. What you need to do is summarise the article in your own words, and include a link to the article at the bottom. Another editor can help you with the formatting (I don't mind). Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or here. --Ged UK (talk) 14:22, 5 August 2008 (UTC)