User talk:Sam004

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Very amusing, but this is an encyclopedia, not an undergraduate humour forum. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 01:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Joseph Melville See has been speedily deleted as a copyright violation of. If you want to recreate it, please do so without lifting content wholesale from other websites. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 01:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

December 2008
The Blues Brothers (film)}}. Your edits appear to constitute and have been reverted. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Aurora country club
A tag has been placed on Aurora country club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 16:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Aurora country club
I have nominated Aurora country club, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Aurora country club. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. gordonrox24 (talk) 16:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The article is still up, and you can discuss the article here. Thanks.--gordonrox24 (talk) 16:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Joseph Melville See
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Joseph Melville See, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No independent notability established (or 1 event for his suicide)

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. - Jarry1250 (t, c, rfa) 18:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem: William B. Langford
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as William B. Langford, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.marquettegolfclub.com/courses.htm and http://www.greenlakemagazine.com/images/GLM10.pdf, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:William B. Langford. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:William B. Langford saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! VernoWhitney (talk) 14:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * While not a word-for-word copy, the article is a close paraphrase and needs to be rewritten further (preferably from scratch) in order to avoid infringing copyright. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:15, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problems
I appreciate your efforts to rewrite William B. Langford after it was first marked as a close paraphrasing problem, but I am concerned that after your efforts to rewrite, you added the following:

This pdf says, at page 28:

It also says:

Text you added says:

So that it does not constitute a derivative work, all content you add to Wikipedia must be written completely from scratch, unless you are using brief quotations that are clearly marked as quotations for the kind of good reasons set out at our non-free content guidelines. The essay Close paraphrasing contains some suggestions for rewriting that may help avoid these issues in the future. The article Wikipedia Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches, while about plagiarism rather than copyright concerns, also contains some suggestions for reusing material from sources that may be helpful, beginning under "Avoiding plagiarism".

It is very important that you understand this issue and comply, as future copying may lead to your account being blocked from contribution. One or two sentences copied from a source may not seem like a big deal on its own, but when you multiply that across the millions of articles we host, you can come to a major problem. We are very careful on Wikipedia to remain compliant with the U.S. copyright laws that govern us. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:53, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem: H. J. Whigham
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Copyright problem: Victor F. Lawson
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It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Victor F. Lawson saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! VernoWhitney (talk) 14:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

CCI
Hello,. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. --VernoWhitney (talk) 14:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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

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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 notice from the top of the article. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 03:27, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Los Beatles (album)


The article Los Beatles (album) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Not particularly notable"

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