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Speedy deletion nomination of Monte Dolack edit

 

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A tag has been placed on Monte Dolack requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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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May 2011 edit

  Please refrain from writing autobiographical articles, as you did at Monte Dolack. Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged; if you create such an article, it may be deleted. All edits to articles must conform to our policies on no original research, neutral point of view, and avoid conflicts of interest. Please remember that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a personal webspace provider. If your achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. TeapotgeorgeTalk 18:44, 19 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

New Monte Dolack article edit

Hi there. I researched a new article about Monte Dolack and put it on Wikipedia. Since there's no copyright infringement problems, this article should stay up.

Are you the real Monte Dolack? If so, it'd be nothing short of wonderful if you would give Wikipedia permission to use one or more of your images on the site. (A photograph of yourself would be terrific, too.) Ideally, you would put something in the public domain, but I hardly expect that. More appropriately, you would agree to upload one or more images under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license. It allows anyone to use the work as long as they credit you and distribute any modifications to the work under the same, similar or a compatible license. You can read more about this license here. There are other licenses, too. Feel free to email me, too! BTW, I'm a GFHS '83. - Tim1965 (talk) 01:36, 13 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

And also we'd like an image of yourself. Several members of WikiProject Montana are actually Montanans (including myself and User:Mike Cline that I know of for sure, and Tim, above, has a solid Great Falls connection). We will be glad to help out and keep you from running into trouble with Wikipedia's general policies against people doing articles on themselves. We have a pretty good policy to protect the biographies of living persons and do our best to help keep people's WP articles neutral and factual. Montanabw(talk) 16:00, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply