CurtDCollins2017

June 2016

Hello, I'm Oshwah. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Golf seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:35, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Right is Right in America

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A tag has been placed on Right is Right in America requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/HumanRightsAndServiceLearningPt1.pdf. 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 or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Welcome!

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I see you are having a bit of trouble here. Your content is being removed because you are engaging in original research. Creative writing is great but Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and thus does not allow writing based on opinion. We base all of our content on what reliable source say about the topic. HighInBC ^{Need help? {{ping|HighInBC}}} 15:10, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Star Wars religion, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Management Plan

Hello, CurtDCollins2017,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Management Plan should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Management Plan .

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks, Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:08, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello, CurtDCollins2017 and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students. Go through our online training for students

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:05, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

• I wanted to give you a bit more information on creating articles and how this differs from a class assignment. I've written on this here, but the biggest differences tend to surround tone, original research, and sourcing. By this I mean that you can be more exploratory and insert more of your own personal observations in a research paper, even if the sources you quote do not explicitly state that specific viewpoint. Notability also tends to be an issue since as students, we can write a paper about anything - however on Wikipedia you have to show where people have written about the topic. Even then, those people have to be independent of the topic itself. For example, if the Emergency Management Plan was written by an employee of the VCU Medical Center, anything that VCU wrote would be considered a WP:PRIMARY source since they would be directly connected to the plan. However if an unrelated person wrote about the plan in a reliable source (ie, a journalist in a major newspaper or a researcher for an academic journal) then that would be considered an independent source.

Out of curiosity, which university are you with? I live in Virginia and depending on where your university and classes are located, I might be available to come in and talk to your teacher about editing on Wikipedia, to give them some tips and pointers about the process to help make things smoother in the future. Unfortunately Wikipedia tends to have a fairly steep and occasionally harsh learning curve, but hopefully I can help make things a little easier. This wouldn't guarantee that your class's topics would remain on Wikipedia, but it would maybe help give you some ideas on how you can pitch in. One of the best recommendations I can give you is to start all of your articles at the Articles for Creation process. Articles made via this process undergo a review process and if something is wrong, you're given the chance to fix things and resubmit the articles. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)