User talk:Pat Torngren
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Once again, welcome! James Kendall [talk] 00:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Important message
Hi. I'd like to thank you for your recent contribution on the flowers of the South African Cape.
Unfortunately, I've had to delete it, because you copied it wholesale from a book. It didn't belong to you, it belongs to Mary Matham Kidd. Copyright is very important on Wikipedia, you see.
You can use the book as a source of information, but not of text. You have to put it in your own words.
Feel free to try again; I look forward to reading your contributions.
DS 23:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Regarding the above list of flowering plants in the Cape Peninsula, I would like to point out the following:
1. The list of flowering plants of the Cape Peninsula, which I sent to you was indeed based on the work of Mary Matham Kidd. However, it was an original 'rework', giving the flowering times of the various plants, which was not included in Kidd's original work.
2. The copyright for this expanded work is held by my husband, Åke Törngren, and no copyright was infringed by what I sent to you, nor has any copyright ever been infringed by any thing I have ever sent to you at any time.
Kind Regards, Pat Törngren
[edit] Needs of Newborns
Did you have any intention of translating Bedürfnisse des Neugeborenen? That info might be of use if you could. --DanielCD 01:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The article 'was' originally written by me in English and can be found at: http://primal-page.com/firsthrs.htm The German version is a translation of the English. You are welcome to both of them if you wish, provided it is understood that I hold the copyright, and that I did them for the primal-page and for my own site. If you are happy with this, you are welcome to them.
Kind Regards, Pat Törngren
[edit] Abraham le Roux
A tag has been placed on your article Abraham le Roux, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Abraham le Roux is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Abraham le Roux. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. You might also want to read our general biography criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that admins should wait a while for you to assert his/her/their notability, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and then immediately add such an assertion. It is also a very good idea to add citations from reliable sources to ensure that your article will be verifiable. --Doco 11:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The article on Abraham le Roux was submitted to you because he is a well-known South Africa sculptor, who has done 'politically aware' works depicting the struggle of black people in the townships during the apartheid era. He has done several sculptors of Nelson Mandela, and his work is known internationally.
He also has books published inter alia by Oxford Press, and has received an acknowledgement of his work by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. However it is so long ago that I submitted this to you, that I suggest that even if you should be interested, it would be best that the article be redone, since I no longer have a copy of the original, and it would need to be updated.
Kind Regards, Pat Törngren
