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Copper Canyon Press
Are you aware that Sam Hamil is no longer at the press? Any material you add to the article must be sourced according to WP:V and WP:RS and not sound promotional. Regards, — mattisse (Talk) 22:24, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ellen Bass


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David Lee (poet)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Dan Gerber
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 * That article was a copyvio of the several website you cited. You cannot just take a paragraph from website 1, a sentence from website 2, etc., and claim that it was not a copyright violation - it was, of both sites. It took me a while to clean up the article, during which time it has been (correctly) speedily deleted. Please note that persistent copyright violators may be blocked from editing. Tim Song (talk) 03:33, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Sarah Lindsay
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Speedy deletion nomination of Sarah Lindsay
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Jon Davis (poet)
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List of poets
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Travis Nichols (poet)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Travis Nichols (poet)


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Proposed deletion of Travis Nichols


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Copper Canyon
Hi, I notice that many of your edits are to Copper Canyon Press or adding links to Copper Canyon's website to pages about poets published by the press. Are you by any chance affiliated with Copper Canyon? If so, I would strongly recommend that you disclose this connection and review Wikipedia's policies on conflict of interest. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 00:46, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I see that you have continued to edit the pages of poets affiliated with Copper Canyon. As it appears to me that you have an undeclared conflict of interest, I have reported you to the [|COI noticeboard]. Tdslk (talk) 22:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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You need to explain removals of sourced content
Please stop removing sourced content from Copper Canyon Press without providing a valid reason. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  00:06, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

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A page you started (Clemens Starck) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Clemens Starck, RCFrancis!

Wikipedia editor Cwmhiraeth just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Please be careful about close paraphrasing. You should express the information in the source in your own words and not copy/paste sentences into your article."

To reply, leave a comment on Cwmhiraeth's talk page.

I have been blocked based on Clemens Starck's page that I have created. I pasted or copied nothing from any of the external references. Obviously I used information from each of the references however there were no copy/paste sentences. The same is true for the Rachel McKibbens page that I wrote earlier in the summer. I would like more detail on why the Starck page is blocked and why the McKibbens page has been scalped of all content. I am certainly willing to make any adjustments to the pages to clear up these problems. Thanks for your help. Bob Francis

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Speedy deletion nomination of Rachel McKibbens


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October 2018
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Copyright problem: Rachel McKibbens
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 * Looking further up this page, I see one warning after another relating to copyright violation. Please understand that you may not copy content from external websites into Wikipedia, and risk being prevented from editing without further warning if you do so again. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:00, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I've also blanked Clemens Starck for the same reason. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:12, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * RCFrancis, concerns regarding your inappropriate use of copyrighted materials to create Wikipedia articles have been brought to your attention for years and yet continue with no response from you whatsoever. As such, I've blocked your account indefinitely in order to protect Wikipedia from further copyright concerns. You can be unblocked as soon as you post an appeal that addresses the copyright concerns and demonstrates an understanding of WP:COPYRIGHT.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 22:14, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

I think I understand why I was blocked. I did not copy or paste anything from a copyrighted document. However the text I wrote may have been interpreted as mimicking copyrighted material. From now on I will paraphrase from any document that might be copyrighted. I would love to have another go at Rachel McKibbens' Wikipedia page and see if that stands up to editor review. I am a volunteer at Copper Canyon Press and have been involved in creating Wiki pages for a number of our poets who don't already have a Wiki page. I attempt to be informational rather than promotional about these poets. Thanks for your consideration. Bob Francis
 * So you are saying you have a conflict of interest? 331dot (talk) 22:54, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Closely paraphrasing copyrighted material is not accepted either. You need to write it in your own words. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 00:05, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I need some examples of where I paraphrased copyrighted material. For example in the Rachel McKibbens wiki page that you folks tore down, I am not sure what I did. I fully referenced all internal and external refs that I may have paraphrased. It seems a bit silly to try to get around the copyright issue by simply putting in some different (but less descriptive) words. McKibbens' wiki page is now a hollow shadow of what it was. The same can be said of the Clemens Starck wiki page that I wrote. So, in order to mend my ways I need to see a few clear examples of where I violated copyrighted material. Once I see some concrete examples, I can easily change the way I approach writing wikipedia articles. Thanks for your time. Bob Francis

Copyright problem: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! TJScalzo (talk) 14:05, 18 May 2020 (UTC)