User talk:Tawnijirvine

May 2015
Your addition to Aloha shirt has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  Please do not copy and paste text from online sources such as http://fluxhawaii.com/alohawear-means-hello/. Binksternet (talk) 01:26, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Binksternet. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Sheraton Waikiki Hotel because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 01:27, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Your addition to Duke Kahanamoku has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  Don't copy and paste text taken from http://www.dukeswaikiki.com/events/view/duke-s-oceanfest-honors-the-legendary-waterman-s-legacy-waikiki-magazine-june-5-2012. Binksternet (talk) 01:30, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Reyn Spooner has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Reyn Spooner. Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 22:05, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Reyn Spooner has been accepted
 Reyn Spooner, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! MatthewVanitas (talk) 11:36, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Cleanup suggestions from Reyn Spooner
Hello, I published Reyn Spooner since it's less adverty (though still a little so), but more importantly the company has gotten a lot of media coverage over the year, that substantively discusses the company's history, impact, etc. So a totally valid encyclopedia topic.

Do note though, I had do do about 20 minutes cleaning up the draft, so take a look at what I did different so that next time you can write it cleaner from the start. Not hassling you, just saying that for next time you can make it easier on you and everyone. In particular, glancing at these guides might help:


 * WP:Refname: this is a very useful tool by which you can cite the same footnote multiple times without the clutter of pasting and listing it every time. Look at the footnotes on your page now, note how some articles you use a lot have a "2abcd" by them, so just showing that "footnote 2" gets used a bunch of other times, rather than re-listing it over and over, and also the code for a repeated footnote is just a few words long, saves a lot of clutter in the coding.
 * See WP:Citation style. Your citations were a really good first try, but terribly messy coding and display. I fixed them in a simpler way, but in the future you may want to just take the format at Template:Citation and just use that to plug-and-play
 * For future articles, don't negelect to check out GoogleBooks. There are a number of mentions of the commpany there, which you can use to substantiate various facts. Also note you can instantly make a GoogleBooks URL into a full footnote using http://reftag.appspot.com

Great job on sourcing by the way; a lot of newer editors have trouble really showing where they got data from, but you were quite thorough indeed in your sourcing, so you're on a good track there. I hope you'll stick around and continue to expand our fashion coverage. You may find it useful to drop into WT:WikiProject Hawaii and WT:WikiProject Fashion to give a brief hello; those projects might not have a ton of discussion every day, but you might run across some like-minded editors. Nice work on your first full article! MatthewVanitas (talk) 11:50, 22 June 2015 (UTC)