User talk:Tom Lewis

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Hello. The text of the article Darwin 1942, as posted by you, appears to come from this web page. I note that this seems to be a write-up of a book by Tom Lewis, and that your usename here is Tom Lewis. However, you should make it clear that the text is released under GFDL before posting it on Wikipedia. (Please note item no. 5 on the template that's now at Darwin 1942.) Thank you. -- Hoary 09:52, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

Hi - still getting used to this. I looked ta the GDFL page - am I required to attach a statement to the article?

The entry Darwin 1942 is a few paragraphs of summary, also used in one of my books "A War at Home" - I am a military historian.

Can you advise further?

I can also be contacted at. . . . @bigpond.net.au

Tom Lewis


 * Sorry, I may have been sleepy when I posted the earlier comment. If the material is indeed by you -- as is now clear -- and you know what posting it to Wikipedia implies -- briefly, that others will tamper with it, and that although you can complain about their particular changes, you can't complain about changes in general -- then all is fine. Indeed, your contribution of this material is very welcome.


 * However, "Darwin 1942" seems a very odd title, unless perhaps the events are commonly referred to as "Darwin 1942". Anyway, there's already a longer article, Air raids on Darwin, February 19, 1942. I encourage you to merge your material there. ("Merging" means copying, pasting, and rewriting to taste, until Darwin 1942 contains nothing, and then turning it into a "redirect article" -- one whose entire content is the single line of text #REDIRECT Air raids on Darwin, February 19, 1942 . You may also wish to improve the longer article in some other ways. -- Hoary 10:07, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)


 * Hi, and welcome!


 * Further to the above, you also added Lieutenant - pronounciation, which substantially overlaps with Lieutenant. I was concerned that Lieutenant - pronounciation was a copy of another document and have added a {tl|copyvio}} template - are you the original author / copyright holder?  In any event, the information could be merged with the existing discussion of pronunciation at Lieutenant.  -- ALoan (Talk) 10:26, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)