User talk:Herrnieman

Media Orgy

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Lunar Society

All the people you recently added to Category:Members of the Lunar Society were already members of Category:Lunar Society. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 08:58, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Members of the Lunar Society

I am proposing a merger between "Members of the Lunar Society" and "Lunar Society" Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 July 15. Awadewit | talk 09:38, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Third city of the United Kingdom

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Notability of Deirdre Kelly

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Notability of Dame Rachel Waterhouse

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Copyright status of Michael Overduin

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Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Michael Overduin saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you want to edit constructively, take a look at the welcome page. Thank you. Mr Stephen 19:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright status of Alan Wenban-Smith

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Alan Wenban-Smith. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.lunarsociety.org.uk/page/5.htm in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia: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:Alan Wenban-Smith 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 the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Alan Wenban-Smith with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Alan Wenban-Smith saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you want to edit constructively, take a look at the welcome page. Thank you. Mr Stephen 19:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Hon Alderman John Charlton, JP

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And still they keep coming ...

Copyright violations: Hon Alderman John Charlton, JP (here), and Deirdre Kelly (here and here (again)). Please stop. Mr Stephen 19:28, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Touch Systems Ltd

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Notability of JB's, Dudley

A tag has been placed on JB's, Dudley, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Mr Stephen 19:40, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for your message. The way forward is to re-write the information in your own words, so that there is no suggestion that you have made use of other peoples creativity (unless they specifically allow it, of course). The information is free to use, but you should say where you got it (see WP:CITE). While you are doing that, ask yourself this; just how notable is this person? will he/she meet WP:N? I suggest you let the copyvios go and recreate beter versions, but you can, if you prefer, put {{holdon}} at the top of the existing articles and explain on the talk pages that you will re-write them (or maybe you can get permission?). As for the club (JB's)and Touch Systems, you ought to either seriously beef up the articles or let them be deleted. There's a club and an electronics company at the top of my street (so to speak), but neither of them are worth an article. As you have seen, this second city business touches a lot of nerves, and it's easy to innocently walk into an edit war - both 'sides' want to put 'their' article in the best light. The way forward is to try to write neutrally - easy to say and sometimes hard to do. Finally, I see the welcoming committee are short-staffed, but see below ... Mr Stephen 21:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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