User talk:Swdunham

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but 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.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. DS 14:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Orange County Opera
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Orange County Opera, and it appears to be a substantial copy of http://orangecountyopera.org. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 15:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Movingboxes (talk) 15:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Orange County Opera
A tag has been placed on Orange County Opera, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of Orange County Opera and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.  Ŵïllî§ï$2  ( Talk! / Cont. ) 15:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Movingboxes (talk) 15:41, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to may be considered vandalism. Further edits of this type may result in your being blocked from editing. -- Ŵïllî§ï$2  ( Talk! / Cont. ) 15:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please mark Orange County Opera as a stub. -- Ŵïllî§ï$2  ( Talk! / Cont. ) 15:52, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello and welcome
Hi there Swdunham. I notice you are encountering some difficulties with your recent edits here on wikipedia and I wanted to see if I can help you. Wikipedia has many ruling guidelines all of which are based around WP:Five pillars. Somethings to consider with the articles in question are wikipedia's policies regarding notability and verifiability. See WP:Notability for more information on wikipedia's notability requirements. In terms of verifiability, wikipedia requires independent reliable sources to verify information in articles. So although you may own the rights to the information used on a subjects official website, that information would not be viewed as a reliable source by wikipedia because the source is not independent of the subject. I would reccomend trying to find and use newspaper articles and reviews in published sources to substantiate your articles. If you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.Nrswanson (talk) 16:04, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

File:Steve Dunham.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Steve Dunham.jpg, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. B (talk) 04:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Archie w dunham.JPG
Thanks for uploading File:Archie w dunham.JPG. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Mlpearc ( open channel ) 19:30, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 12 October
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