User talk:Surfer7315

Copyright policy advisement regarding articles
Dear Surfer7315, regarding your contribution, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from web sites or printed material without the express permission of the author or copyright holder. This article appears to be a direct copy from Puritan Boston & Quaker Philadelphia by Edward Digby Baltzell, as demonstrated here and here. As a copyright violation, the article has been deleted under the speedy deletion criteria.

If you choose to recreate the article, please ensure that the material is written in your own words. If you believe that using sentences from the source is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at the talk page of the new article and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GNU Free Documentation License, or released into the public domain leave a note at the talk page of the new article with a link to where we can find that note.
 * 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 GFDL, and note that you have done so on the talk page of the article.

Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

the rewritten article
Reads like an essay, which apparently it is, based on. That isn't what works for an encyclopedia. See WP:FIRST--what's need its to write it in a much briefer style, more concise, more informative, less rhetorical. duller, in fact. Look at some other bios here. Include a reference to the DNB entry, because that is what is taken here as proving notability. DGG (talk) 20:33, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. I see you've addressed the copyright concerns. :) As DGG notes above, though, the article does need to be revised to keep in the tone of Wikipedia (see TONE). What you have is a bit colorful and has some language problematic with regards to our neutral point of view policy and our original research policy. For just a couple of examples, you mention that your subject had "the refined manners of a proper gentleman" and "a distinguished family name". Elsewhere, you refer to somebody's "beautifully written book". Whose judgments are these? It's not the place of Wikipedia editors to make such judgments; though we can certainly cite them if somebody else said so, our job is to provide an overview of other research. As DGG says, it might be helpful for you to look at other articles, like Thomas Rowley (poet), to get an idea how these are usually handled. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 22:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Speakerroberts.jpg
Hi Surfer7315!

We thank you for uploading Image:Speakerroberts.jpg, but there is a problem. Your image is currently missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. Unless you can help by adding a copyright tag, it may be deleted by an Administrator. If you know this information, then we urge you to add a copyright tag to the image description page. We apologize for this, but all images must confirm to policy on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks so much for your cooperation. This message is from a robot. --John Bot III (talk) 14:42, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

July 2020
Your addition to Siemens Ltd. Saudi Arabia has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 14:04, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Future Investment Initiative Institute


A tag has been placed on Draft:Future Investment Initiative Institute, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Riteboke (talk) 08:13, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Surfer7315. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Future Investment Initiative Institute, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
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 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Riteboke (talk) 15:35, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 24
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Future Investment Initiative, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Tony Chan. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ* Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

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Thank you for identifying this. I have corrected it to Tony_F._Chan. Surfer7315 (talk) 07:08, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
Hello, I'm JellyMan9001. I noticed that you recently removed content from Future Investment Initiative Institute without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.   JellyMan9001 (talk) 09:19, 12 October 2021 (UTC)