User talk:Nomadhart

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Hello, Nomadhart, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! JohnCD (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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Richard Hart (Caribbean activist)
The article was deleted as a copyright violation, so I cannot restore it even to a user sub-page. I can email the text to you, if you like, but it is probably simpler just to give you a link to the source at http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/article.asp?item=540.

Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or even somewhat-modified variations - see WP:Copy-paste - unless a formal copyright release has been made, as described in WP:Copyrights. It would probably be simpler for you to write an article in your own words, which could cite that, and the other links you provided, as a source. As you are new to Wikipedia, I suggest you start with a draft in your user-space, at User:Nomadhart/Richard Hart (Caribbean activist) - just click on that "redlink" and it will open up a window for you to type in. That may not be an ideal title for an article - what is needed is one that will "disambiguate" him from the others listed at Richard Hart.

There is good advice at WP:Your first article, and the WP:Tutorial is helpful. Wikipedia can be alarming at first, but help is available; you can ask on my talk page, or at the WP:Help desk, or put  (two curly brackets each side) at the bottom of your talk page with a question below it. When you have a draft article, you can post a request at WP:Requests for feedback.

If you don't want to embark on an article yourself, you can make a suggestion at WP:Requested articles, but I would not be optimistic about that producing a result any time soon - there is a considerable backlog, and Wikipedia is an all-volunteer project, so an article will get written only when someone is interested enough to do the work.

As the subject is your grandfather you have, technically, a WP:Conflict of interest, but provided you explain your relationship that should not be a problem. From the UWE page, he clearly meets the WP:Notability standard.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:54, 5 September 2010 (UTC)