User talk:Torgovnik

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Torgovnik, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Jonathan Torgovnik has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:06, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Jonathan Torgovnik. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:06, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Jonathan Torgovnik
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Jonathan Torgovnik, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images from either web sites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://www.torgovnik.com/Biography/, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:


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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! nerdgoonrant (talk) 18:07, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2017
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written or added to an article about yourself, at Jonathan Torgovnik. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:14, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Can you help?
If, as your username rather suggests, you have some connection with Jonathan Torgovnik, would you very kindly consider doing two things: Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ask if he would be prepared to donate either a self-portrait or an example of his work (or even both) to the Wikimedia movement. If so, this is the easiest way, but this with an email like this one will also work. The image(s) would need to be only at a modest resolution, sufficient for online display but not for commercial reproduction.
 * let him know how touched I was both by his photographs of Rwanda and by the way he spoke about them here.