User talk:Whaoa

Regarding edits to Te Arawa
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 * Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
 * The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: 'tripod\.com' (link(s): http://whaoa.tripod.com/) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly.	Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source.	Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
 * Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites.	 For more information about me, see my FAQ page.	 Thanks! SquelchBot (talk) 23:57, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems
Hello. Concerning your contribution, Ngati Whaoa, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Ngati Whaoa appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Ngati Whaoa has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Ngati Whaoa and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Ngati Whaoa with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Ngati Whaoa.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. -- Finngall  talk  22:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * (Posting to both User talk:118.90.71.196 and User talk:Whaoa, since I assume I'm dealing with the same person in both places)
 * Please do not remove maintenance tags placed by other editors without either explaining the deletion or addressing the concerns raised by them. Wikipedia is a collaborative process -- no single editor can "own" an article.  I'm hardly an expert on the subject--neither the current abbreviated text or the previous copyright-violation version provide enough context or background for someone who's stumbling into the subject for the first time.  (Case in point: I applied the Maori-stub tag in part to call the attention of folks who are knowledgeable about Maori culture, but I had to do some searching around to be sure that this related to the Maori at all before doing so.


 * Please read Wikipedia's Manual of Style and the guidelines on citing sources. I'd also like to point you to the fine folks at WikiProject New Zealand, a group of editors who specialize in New Zealand-related article.  I'm no expert on NZ, but I do know a thing or two about policy, and I'll happily answer further questions.  Take care. -- Finngall   talk  00:34, 9 May 2008 (UTC)