User talk:Lfeher

Copyright violation in Chip Shop Awards
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Contacting a user
If you want to talk to a user, you use their talk page, so to discuss something with Karanacs, you would write to her on her talk page, which is User talk:Karanacs. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Ealdgyth, you got to that just before I did! Lfeher, it is generally not a good idea to copy and paste information from any website onto Wikipedia, even if you are the copyright holder.  There are several reasons for this:
 * Wikipedia articles need to meet several core policies and guidelines. Among these are the verifiability and no original research policies and the notability guideline.  Basically, these say that any information in a Wikipedia article should be based on an independent, published, reliable source.  Self-published websites or websites of organizations do not generally count as independent, reliable sources.  We judge whether a topic is notable usually based on what other sources think of it - if no newspaper, book publisher, journal, etc has written about the event, then it is likely not going to meet the notability criteria.   The information also needs to be properly cited so that readers know where the information came from.
 * Usually, people who are the copyright holders of information have a conflict of interest with the topic of that article. Please read the conflict of interest guideline to make sure that you are not inadvertently breaking rules.
 * Lastly, of course, is the copyright issue itself. This page has more information on that.

I know that the policies can often seem a little overwhelming at first (it did to me!), but you'll get the hang of it. Please read the documents I've linked to above, and feel free to ask (at User talk:Karanacs) or on this page) if you have any questions. Karanacs (talk) 13:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Lfeher. Please note that when you leave a message on a talk page, you should put it at the bottom (I know, more rules!). That is so that it is easier for people to find new messages. I didn't delete your new version of Chip Shop Awards. It looks like the content was the same as the first version, and usually another administration will delete it again if that happens. One thing I forgot to tell you about above is that Wikipedia articles need to be written in an encyclopedic tone. They shouldn't read like a website or a newsletter or an advertisement. This article will likely continue to be deleted unless it is written in a neutral, encyclopedic style and contains reliable sources. I'm not going to undelete the articles that were deleted because they were copyvios and were unencyclopedic.

On my talkpage you mentioned that the awards have been written up in several magazines. If you really want to write a good article on this topic, you will need to reference those articles, not things you know because you are involved in the award organization (that way we know it is not original research and we know the information is verifiable). You really need to start over so that the information has the proper tone. If you want help, you can add links to newspaper/magazine/journal articles here (I'm watching your talk page) or on my talk page and I can help you to figure out how to write the article from those. Karanacs (talk) 15:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Award
Template:Infobox Award has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Rambo's Revenge (talk)  12:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)