User talk:Yesland

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The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Fabrictramp |  talk to me  22:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Peter Devenport
Just a friendly note with a little more information on the Peter Devenport article. Unfortunately, the article was a word-for-word copy of one of the sources used; because that's a copyright law violation, I had to delete the article.

I'd suggest you read the link in the welcome message above about copyright, and then try a new version of the article at User:Yesland/Peter Devenport. This will give you more, but not unlimited, time to work on the article, write it in your own words, and add sources that show how he meets the requirements of WP:BIO. When you think it's ready to move into the main article space, post a request for review at WP:FEED, and have an experienced editor look it over. That way the article will have a much, much better chance of sticking around. Hope that helps! -- Fabrictramp |  talk to me  22:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)