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Your submission at Articles for creation: Human Rights Center (February 14) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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StarryGrandma (talk) 22:23, 14 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
The article is composed of pieces copied directly from the projects website at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/hrc.htm and subpages. Wikipedia takes copyright violation very seriously. (A law school should know that!) If you rewrite the article you also need to provide references to show that the program is well-known. We need to see newspaper and magazine articles, independent of Berkeley and its press releases, that report on the project. StarryGrandma (talk) 22:29, 14 February 2015 (UTC)Reply


 
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Human Rights Center edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Human Rights Center requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.law.berkeley.edu/11913.htm. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Eric Stover (February 21) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Missvain was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved. Missvain (talk) 00:57, 21 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
 
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

KaleToTheChief (block logactive blocksglobal blockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Request reason:

This block is not necessary because I am a single person, not an organization, writing this article. I am a student at Berkeley, but am not directly affiliated with Eric Stover. I have taken measures to make the language sound more appropriate, however, I am unable to make any further edits with a block. This Wikipedia is only used by one person and therefore, I believe the block is unnecessary.

Decline reason:

Procedural close. Please use the following code to make your unblock request: {{unblock-un|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} Coffee // have a cup // beans // 21:08, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Reply


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@DragonflySixtyseven:- do you think a change of username is required? PhilKnight (talk) 18:40, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Yeah. If you promise to file a request to have your username changed you can be unblocked. DS (talk) 19:44, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
 
This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Requested username:

Request reason:

I would like to make my username sound less affiliated with an organization as I am an individual person. I hope to be unblocked once my username is changed.

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:15, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
  • I see that both the pages you have created have contained substantial amounts of text copied verbatim or almost verbatim from other web sites, which is unacceptable under Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please be careful to avoid making the same mistake again, as such pages are likely to be speedily deleted, as both the ones you created have been. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:16, 26 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

@JamesBWatson: These are my first Wikipedia entries, and I thought I could use the law school's website as a good starting off point and get constructive criticism from there. I realize now that this can lead to blocks and hardly constructive criticism at all. I have been waiting to change the language of the article and refer to more outside sources, but have been blocked for quite some time so I have been unable to do so. Please don't delete this article as I have simply been trying to get back to it to continue editing.

Your submission at Articles for creation: KaleToTheChief (April 24) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Timtrent was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Fiddle Faddle 11:51, 24 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Your contributed article, Eric Stover edit

 

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Eric Stover. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Draft:Eric Stover. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Draft:Eric Stover – you might like to discuss new information at [[Talk:Draft:Eric Stover|the article's talk page]].

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. The Snowager-is awake 00:03, 25 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

User:Snowager Both articles are mine! Haha. I wasn't sure if the other one submitted for review or not. I will go ahead and delete this one and wait for the other. Thank you!

April 2015 edit

  Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Eric Stover  with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. 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) 19:38, 28 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

AfC notification: Draft:Eric Stover has a new comment edit

 
I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Eric Stover. Thanks! EBY (talk) 19:27, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply