User talk:Reptilegirl12

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Speedy deletion nomination of Durango rock rattlesnake


A tag has been placed on Durango rock rattlesnake requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Copyright
Welcome to Wikipedia, but very important Lesson One: you must not copy material into Wikipedia. It could cause serious legal problems. Above every edit screen it says "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted". Your article was copied from http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/64321/0. Please read Copy-paste. You have to write in your own words, and minor rewording of a source is not enough - see WP:Close paraphrasing and WP:Quotations for more about this. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Advice
Some more advice, in two parts:
 * There is already an article about Crotalus lepidus. The way these are handled is normally to have an article under the scientific name, with "redirects" from common names; so clicking on Blue rattlesnake, for instance, takes you to the Crotalus lepidus article. Clicking on Rock rattlesnake takes you to a "disambiguation page", because that name is applied to two different species. You can see at Category:Crotalus by common name how many there are already.


 * "Durango rock rattlesnake" isn't among them. I don't know how it should be handled, whether it is different from the species already there or just an alternative name. There is a group of users interested in this field at WP: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, and you could leave a message on their talk page to ask advice. From your username, you would probably be interested in that WikiProject.


 * A different point: it takes a little time to learn "wiki markup", i.e. what to type in order to get the effect you want on the screen. There is a brief guide at WP:Cheat sheet, and more detail at Help:Wiki markup, and a WP:Tutorial which will help you learn. It's always a good thing to click "Show preview" after making a change, so that you can check it has the effect you want; if not, you can change it and get it right before clicking "Save page". One particular point, which made your first try look funny, is that leading spaces, i.e. space characters at the beginning of a line, upset the display. If you want to indent a paragraph, you do that by putting one or more colon characters : at the start of it. You can practise markup in the WP:Sandbox.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)