Capcourt

Welcome from Sphilbrick

Welcome, Capcourt! Welcome! Hello, Capcourt, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm Sphilbrick, one of the thousands of editors here at Wikipedia. Here are a few good links for newcomers: Introduction The Five Pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Help How to write a great article Manual of Style Thank you for your contributions to wikipedia, it has helped make wikipedia a better encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or type {{helpme}} here on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! SPhilbrickT 13:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Capcourt. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Is_my_article_published.3F.
Message added 13:50, 19 June 2010 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

For specific help on referencing

For specific help on referencing, see WP:CITE and footnotes--SPhilbrickT 13:51, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

For future use, starting a new draft

For future use, you should start a draft article in a user subpage, rather than a user page. For example, you could have started User:Capcourt/Baptism Integrity. Don't worry, this is a VERY confusing place for new editors. Don't hesitate to ask if you have questions.--SPhilbrickT 13:54, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

June 2010

Your recent new article, Baptism integrity, has been speedily deleted, as it appears to have used copyrighted material extensively without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Bencherlite^Talk 14:34, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

If you wonder why your page was deleted

It was a copyright violation of this page--SPhilbrickT 15:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for undeletion

Hi! Sorry you had a rough time with your first article. :(

I'm replying here to your questions at Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#baptism_integrity, since most of them have to do with editing and Wikipedia, not specifically a request for undeletion. (Which we couldn't grant there because of the copyvio issues.)

To be able to use material to which you own the copyright, read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and follow the instructions there. However, just donating the material is not enough -- it still needs to turn into an encyclopedia article. As SPhilbrick suggested above, writing articles in your userspace is a great way to get more time to get the article to where it needs to be. Read Wikipedia:Your first article carefully for some great tips, then when you think it's ready, put in a request at WP:FEED for an experienced editor to review the article.

If you don't know how to do something here at Wikipedia, a great way to get help is to put a {{helpme}} tag (note the curly brackets) here on your talk page, followed by your question. So you might ask how you can contact SPhilbrick, and someone would come along and tell you (click the "T" in his/her signature, or click on the history tab and click on the "talk" after his/her name in the history.)

Hope that helps a bit! --Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:54, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Elaboration

I'd like to elaborate, as I can imagine it might be some combination of surprising, upsetting, and mind boggling that we would delete an article which is based upon words you wrote.

There are two reasons why this is a good decision.

First, while I don't doubt that you are who you say you are, and are the author of the underlying site, I don't officially know this. Wikipedia prides itself on allowing anonymous editing, so we do not require that you identify yourself formally to the project. The downside of this practice is that anyone could claim that they wrote the material. There are ways to confirm that you are providing permission for re-use of material, and we can get to those in good time.

The second reason is for your protection. I have seen a number of editors note they are fine including material they have under copyright for use in Wikipedia, as long as it doesn't go further. They miss that once it is used in Wikipedia, it has a very broad license, allowing just about anyone to use it for just about any purpose (subject to a simple attribution requirement). Some editors respond they didn't want that to happen. So we want to make sure that you understand the license before you grant it by including the material in an article.--SPhilbrickT 18:55, 19 June 2010 (UTC)