User talk:Raffeal

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 19:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

March 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Peshmerga, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 19:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Medes. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 19:51, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

April 2011
Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Medes. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. I've reverted your edits there - not only was it uncited, our Kurdistan article doesn't mention 'Medya' either, and the article is about a people. Dougweller (talk) 12:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Kurdish Air Force for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kurdish Air Force is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Kurdish Air Force until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Dougweller (talk) 13:03, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Your addition to Peshmerga has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dougweller (talk) 13:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violations and other problems
I've also removed most of the text from Kurdish Air Force as it was also a copyright violation. Would you please respond here showing that you have red WP:COPYVIO showing that you understand our copyright policy? Note that you can't just change a few words, text must be clearly different from the original. I'd also like you to show you understand WP:VERIFY. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:09, 24 April 2011 (UTC)