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November 2011
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Bernard Hesling article
Hi Mincht. Thanks for getting in touch with me at my talk page about your article. I have gone back to the Design & Art Australia online site and I see that you did write the article, but it indicates that two others contributed so there may still be a copyright violation. On the other hand, please review Wikipedia's policy to see if you can satisfy any concerns in this regard.

Also, I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you indicate you only copied the first paragraph. But for a couple lines here and there, it appears to me that you have copied the entire article over into your wikipedia submission.

That said, as I noted, it may be that copyright won't be an issue if your article does not in fact violate the policy. For instance, it may be that the information you wrote about Hesling at the other site is in fact public domain or it's licence may permit the use of the work under certain conditions. Please read their end user licence agreement at http://www.daao.org.au/end-user-licence-agreement/. It appears to me that you may be able to satisfy any copyright concerns if you post this agreement on the article's project page and if you provide a link to the licence somewhere at the bottom of the article but that is just my reading of it. You should satisfy yourself. Not all sites permit you to contribute to them and still retain the copyright for your work (you may recall the uproar when people realized Facebook, due to its licence notice, held a copyright over everything they posted on their pages).

If you are able to overcome an issue in that regard, you will just need to provide sources for some of the paragraphs in the article for which no source is cited and then I would be happy to review it again. There is no doubt that your subject is notable so with a bit of cleanup of the submission I think it would make a good Wikipedia article.

Best Regards, Snowysusan (talk) 07:26, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Bernard Hesling article
Hi Mincht. I have looked at the article again and you are almost there!

I have added a bunch of citation needed tags. In many cases, the citation is referred to in the sentence and you just need to change it to a footnote style citation. Wikipedia doesn't care what type of citations you use, but it should be consistent throughout the article. You can leave reference to the source in the sentence if you want and just add a footnote reference for consistency and/or remove it from the sentence and only footnote the source.

I have also added some citation needed tags where there is no reference to the source in the sentence/paragraph at all. You will need to add footnote type citations for these parts of the article. Once you have done that, let me know and I will do a final review and clean up of it and then move it to the main space. Well done!

Also, please don't sign your real name to talk pages - when you are writing in an open edit box you will see above a B, then an I, then an odd looking icon for a pen and signature. Just click on that thing at the end of your posts and they will be signed with your user talk name.

Best Regards, Snowysusan (talk) 09:46, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Snowysusan, I have input 'citations required'.--Mincht (talk) 03:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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Roland St John Article
Hi Mincht. I have had a look at the article and while it is a very well written article and you have tried to attribute the information to various sources, some issues do remain.

First, Wikipedia doesn't permit articles be based on original research. In other words, all sources must be reliable, published sources. Many of the sources you cite are not reliable, published sources. This policy exists because the reader should be able to independently verify both the information and the reliability of the source.

Sources must also be independent of the subject and most of your sources are not.

Another issue is the tone of the article - it currently reads more like a tribute than an encyclopedia article. One of the core principles of Wikipedia is that articles must be written from a neutral point of view.

If you click on the links I have provided here for these policies and read them, you will see that they all work together to establish criteria in an effort to ensure that Wikipedia articles are in fact reliable. I recognize there are a lot of articles that don't meet these standards, but we work to improve them constantly and where it isn't possible to eventually bring them up to these standards (sometimes there just aren't reliable published sources to support an article) they are nominated for deletion. I don't think you are in danger of having your article about Roland St John deleted, but it does still need some improvement. At the very least, if I were you, I would tone down the language to make it more neutral. If you are quoting a published source then colorful praise is fine because you are quoting a third party, but that type of language shouldn't appear in the rest of your article. I don't know if that helps at all, but hopefully it at least explains why the tag remains on the article notwithstanding your efforts to substantiate the information. Best Regards, Snowysusan (talk) 11:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


 * You are a quick study - I have removed the tag from the article. Best Regards, Snowysusan (talk) 09:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia - Can you pls help. I tried to add a photo of my uncle Roland St John to my Wikipedia article on him, but the photo is distorted! What went wrong? How do I fix?Mincht (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

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Otto Niemeyer
Hi Mincht,

I have removed the reference for now and not warned the unregistered editor because sometimes that will simply fan the fires. I will watch the article and if the editor persists, I will take other steps. Thanks for letting me know. --Snowysusan (talk) 06:31, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

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Photo of my uncle Edward Henry St John (1916-1994) is from Wikipedia Images of Edward St John (shows many people of that name) but third one along is him. See https://www.google.com.au/search?q=edward+st+john&rlz=1C2AFAB_enAU481AU481&biw=1440&bih=803&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bZrcUsKhAovOkAWpioDwAg&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQsAQ Not to be confused with Univ Michigan's Edward St John, whose photo shows up wrongly. --Mincht (talk) 03:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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