User talk:GaryKing/Archive01

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Please add new archivals to User talk:GaryKing/Archive02. Thank you. Gary King 13:00, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like it here, and stick around.

Here are some tips to help you get started:

Good luck!

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P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).


Hi User:GaryKing! I noticed you were adding some new articles. It might be good for you to read the Tutorial up above so that you can Wikify them as you make them. I've gone back and fixed up the ones you made so far -- it might be useful to look at what I did to them to make them more like our other articles (i.e. here and here. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! --Fastfission 03:46, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Tendency

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia - your article Tendency is from the American Heritiage dictionary, which is copyrighted. We want to stay a free resource, so we can only accept non-copyrighted material. Thanks. Whosyourjudas (talk) 22:22, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi GaryKing -- I've noticed you've been posting mainly definitions of words. You ought to review What Wikipedia Is Not -- Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Fastfission 23:20, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Okay thanks, I'm just very new to this Wikipedia and was just feeling energetic about adding some stuff to the place.

I have learned my lesson at the very start, so it'll never happen again from now on.

Don't worry about it! We were all new here once, and it does take awhile to gain one's footing! :o) --Fastfission 04:26, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] okay

Okay! I'm a developer though so I'll try my best to get some footing here and hit the ground running soon enough.

So this place is more of a collaborative place for everyone's knowledge eh? And to help contribute ones knowledge with someone elses articles and such? Okay, well cool! :D GaryKing 12:18, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 123test

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. SWAdair | Talk 07:18, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Marcel Gagne

I read the article you submitted on Marcel Gagne, and see that you have just copied it from [this website. That's not how thing should be done. First of all, most websites have copyrighted making the content owned by the site and/or the people who wrote the article. Second, the text isn't really written as an encyclopedia article at all. Things like

If you would like to read some of his work,, you can click on the links in the "Writings" menu.

and

What else? Oh yeah, ...

and so on, aren't encyclopedic in style or content at all. Maybe you can rewrite it to be more in compliment with Wikipedia:Manual of Style and also avoid Wikipedia getting in legal trouble for using copyrighted information without permission? Thanks! Shanes 23:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] iMic

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as iMic, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! If you're aware of any other pages that you created by copying from other websites, then please help us out and either list them for speedy deletion or mark them as copyright problems. Thanks, Bovlb 01:49:06, 2005-09-02 (UTC)

[edit] More copyright violations

Hi again. I'm afraid that I have listed another eight pages you created as potential copyright violations. See Wikipedia:Copyright problems#September 2 for details. I know this must be a discouraging experience for you, but I wonder if you could help us to sort thinga out. Is there anything else you have contributed from other websites without appropriate copyright permission?

Also, I see that you have uploaded a number of images, especially in the last day, but none of them have any copyright information on them. Could you please take a few moments to go through and tag them all appropriately on the image description page so we know we are allowed to use them?

Finally, do you have any suggestions on how Wikipedia's copyright policies could be made more obvious to contributors? I have a couple of ideas on the go (see Wikipedia talk:Copyright FAQ#Proposed improvement and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal) for improving things; I'd welcome your comments.

Cheers, Bovlb 07:51:03, 2005-09-02 (UTC)

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