User talk:Willrsf

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Speedy deletion of Will Roscoe
A tag has been placed on Will Roscoe requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. 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 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." You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Iain99Balderdash and piffle 23:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Issues
Thank you for clarifying the source of the material you contributed and who the owner is. Unfortunately we can't leave it at that if we're going to use the material. Wikipedia has specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow to accept text that is published on other sources. If you still wish to grant Wikipedia the rights to this material, check out Requesting_copyright_permission. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim. I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 17:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)  Toddst1 (talk) 17:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Tip
If you want to work on an article (e.g. lets say its about some guy named Kevin Liscow (random name)) you can have it in your name space. (e.g. User:Willrsf/Kevin Liscow) until it meets Wikipedia standards, then click "move" tab at the top and move it. If you want any help feel free to ring a bell. – 123Pie Talk  21:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Two-Spirit do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. PTJoshua (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Two-Spirit. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. PTJoshua (talk) 19:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I don't know how to use Wikipedia to communicate and I suppose this attempt won't work...BUT I don't see why adding a link to the website maintained by the leading scholar on this subject is inappropriate. Thanks, Will Roscoe, Ph.D. (talk)