User talk:Wintermike85

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Wintermike85, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to William Winter (medical officer) 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.


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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. McGeddon (talk) 13:41, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Surnames
Hello there. Just to say that Wikipedia policy on biography articles is (like most encyclopedias and newspapers) to refer to people by their surname throughout the article - there's some detail on this at MOS:SURNAME if you're curious. --McGeddon (talk) 09:49, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

November 2015
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give William Winter (medical officer) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Requests for history merge. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 12:38, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Robert Winter
I've moved this article to the draft article namespace at Draft:Robert Winter (Soldier). There's two reasons: Being in draft status means that the article can be worked on at leisure free from threat of deletion. Nthep (talk) 13:26, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) you've not supplied any references at all and unreferenced articles are very likely to be deleted.
 * 2) I'm not sure that he meets the notability threshold for an article.  There is a guideline essay for the notability of service personnel at WP:SOLDIER and I don't currently see him meeting that.  A single award of the DCM isn't enough and I'm going to ask at WT:MILHIST if he and William being the only known father/son pair to both win DCMs is enough to warrant an article on each.

wintermike85 (talk) thank you, i understand
 * Thanks for that. Can I suggest you beef up the article on William - a citation for the fact that they are the only father/son pair to win the DCM would be very useful.  You should also amend the infobox to show he finished his career as a Major even though the main interest is in the DCM awarded when he was an RSM. Nthep (talk) 13:46, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Copy-and-paste
Copying and pasting Draft:Robert Winter (Soldier) to Robert Winter (CSM, Leinster Regiment & DCM) is not the way to do it. THe new article is very likely to be deleted. Hamish59 (talk) 11:48, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of William Arthur Winter


The article William Arthur Winter has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * The subject does not appear to meet the WP:GNG requirement of significant coverage in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. This looks like a classic case of WP:NOTMEMORIAL to me.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 09:17, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of William Arthur Winter for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article William Arthur Winter is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/William Arthur Winter until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 12:51, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Possible Conflict of Interest
G'day, I noticed that you have been working on two articles about people named Winter, and your user name alludes to the name Winter as well. That makes me wonder if you are related to the two soldiers, which would create a general conflict of interest. Conflict of interest editing is strongly discouraged. Please read WP:COI and WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 22:36, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Robert Winter (soldier) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Robert Winter (soldier) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Robert Winter (soldier) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 20:47, 21 November 2015 (UTC)