User talk:TheAfroFrontierist

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.

You may use external websites or other printed material 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, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike".

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the Help Desk. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Materialscientist (talk) 02:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the feeling you are also . Here's the thing--if that's who you are, and if you are indeed the author of that dissertation, I assume you own the copyright. But that still doesn't mean you can drop 90k of text in here--because that makes the article pretty much illegible, and that much text is really undue, and the writing is academic and historical, not encyclopedic. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 02:58, 7 February 2017 (UTC)