Mattpund

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Hello, Mattpund, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Sustainable urbanism

I have moved your article outline to a user sub-page at User:Mattpund/Sustainable Urbanism where you can work on it, and move it into the main encyclopedia when it is ready. That avoids the risk of premature deletion and gives you time to develop it. The links in the Welcome message above will tell you more about contributing here; WP:Your first article is a good introduction, and WP:Writing better articles is useful, too.

Copyright

Student programs have recently given us a lot of copyright problems. Please read Wikipedia:Copy-paste carefully for the reasons why you must not copy material into Wikipedia, and also WP:Close paraphrasing which explains that minor rewording is not enough to avoid a copyright violation. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators are blocked from editing. If your instructor has not yet warned you about this, please ask him or her to read Wikipedia:Copy-paste too, and explain it to the rest of the class.

Best wishes for your project, JohnCD (talk) 16:08, 31 October 2011 (UTC)