User talk:Gr2012

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Welcome!St. Andrew'

Hello, Gr2012, 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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[edit] St. Andrew's 'Star' Scout Group

It is suggested that this article that you started be merged to the main The Singapore Scout Association article along with a couple of other articles on Groups. However, see what I wrote on Talk:The Singapore Scout Association. Across the world in WP, articles on individual Scout Groups are not considered notable and are merged into articles on Areas, Counties etc. Your article also does not meet the standards of Wikipedia. It reads like a vanity page. Wikipedia is not the place to host an article on your own Scout Group. Please consider my suggestions. You can contact me for help if you want to. --Bduke 02:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

You didn't have to delete my article. I was merely trying to give more info the Star Scouts. You can go and delete RI's page and Hwa Chong's page before deleting mine. --This was from User:Gr2012

The merge notices were there for some time and nobody from Singapore responded. All five Group articles were treated exactly the same. Your article was actually the worst as it was a copyright violation being a direct copy of the Groups web page. This is not in line with the free license that all wikipedia articles are released under. It could just have been speedy deleted without a redirect and no information added to the main Singapore Scout Association page. If you want to improve covereage of Scouting in Singapore, have a look at Category:Scouting in Singapore. Apart from the main article, there is one on a Scout rank and one on the Cadet section. Why not write about other sections and other rank/awards. Also the main article could be improved. It looks like parts of that article are a direct copy off an official document. --Bduke 06:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I copied it with permission from the actual owner. Nevermind. I don't see what's the fuss about me uploading my own group's info.

I think you will find that having permission of the owner is, in itself, not sufficient. I'm a fairly experienced Wikipedian but I'm not an expert on copyright. However I think it has to be explicitly released under a open source license on the original web site. Have a look at Wikipedia:Copyrights. Also if you look at Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas, you will see that an article on your own Scout Group clearly falls into that category. We are all tempted to do it, but if you do you have to be really carefull. The fuss, as you put it, is that material about your own Group is hardly ever notable enough to be included in an encyclopedia and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not a free web site for any information you want to upload. I hope you continue and develop into a good Wikipedian. --Bduke 22:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Deaths in 2006, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Syrthiss 13:54, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

sorry...my friend was screwing around. sorry sorry! --Gr2012 15:11, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting your edits

I apologise for that, initially, what I saw was someone "bold"-ing the entire text, and I thought someone was messing around with the page. I've went to see what you've done, and I'll re-revert the changes, and possibly integrate the text better. 리지강.wa.au 09:02, 29 April 2007 (UTC)