User talk:John259

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[edit] Razorback Railway

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Razorback Railway, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.razorbackrailway.com/Main/. As a copyright violation, Razorback Railway appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Razorback Railway has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Razorback Railway. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Razorback Railway, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. --W.marsh 21:48, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I note that the edit summary for this article's creation reads:"The wording has been checked and is fully agreeable to the organisation described." Please be aware of the terms of the GFDL which states that placing something on Wikipedia means you are licensing it for redistribution, and also be aware of the wording on every edit screen which reads If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it.. In other words the wording may have been agreed initially but please don't expect that it is set in stone. Tonywalton  | Talk 12:40, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

The article Razorback Railway has been or soon will be deleted from Wikipedia. This happened because the article seems to be about a subject but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. Sandstein 06:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)