User talk:LindaGunn

Your article Skuggi í Hörgárdal
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Skuggi í Hörgárdal to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It currently has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:03, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hi LindaGunn: Welcome to Wikipedia! I am sorry it has been a bit of a rough welcome so far. Your article was deleted as a copyright violation of the source. I've given you links to our policies and guidelines above, with emphasis on the coyright issue; since Wikipedia is publication, we have to be scrupulous even with derivative works, such as translations. It's advisable to summarize briefly and use as few quotations as possible (always clearly marked). That also helps with the focus of the writing, which should be encyclopedic and neutral rather than either exhaustive or argumentative as academic writing often is. In any case, I see you had already started the article on the Icelandic Wikipedia, and I suspect posting a version here was a mistake. On the other hand, the English Wikipedia did not have an article on Hörgárdalur, so I have since written one, and redirected your article title to it. Thank you for improving Wikipedia - in both languages - and please do help us out some more, just in English here at en.wikipedia, and avoiding copyright violations. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)