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Your submission at Articles for creation: Kurt Heinrich Meyer (April 29)

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Fiddle Faddle 10:27, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Horstm, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Draft:Kurt Heinrich Meyer has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Help me!

I would like to submit to en.Wikipedia a translation I made of the article http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Heinrich_Meyer

Kurt H. Meyer is my father. The translation is as exact as possible, which implies that in the references, weblinks I copied the available infomation, and hope that his will be acceptable. In the "weblinks", "references" I left out a few items (such as birth-date and -place identification) which I considered not relevant for the english edition.

Please help me with your advice : i) whether such a translation is of interest to de.wikipedia, and ii) whether the technical conventions in the , such a [[ ]] in the text for links, in "References" and "External Links" are the same as in the german version.

You will be aware of my failed initial attempt earlier this month in producing an article on my father in en.Wikipedia, where I had copied a few sentences from the bio article by W.V. Farrar (cited in the references), not aware that this was not permitted.

Thanking you in advance for your help

Horst Meyer Professor of Physics, Emeritus Duke University

Horstm (talk) 17:04, 15 May 2015 (UTC)Horstm

Please submit a draft of your article to Articles for Creation, where it will be reviewed by an experienced editor, and you will receive feedback if there are problems with your draft. In general, the syntax is the same for the English and German Wikipedias, but the English Wikipedia insists on inline citations somewhat more strongly than the German Wikipedia does. Also, as you are writing about your father, you have a conflict of interest, and thus you should be especially careful about maintaining a neutral tone. FireflySixtySeven (talk) 17:38, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kurt Heinrich Meyer has been accepted

Kurt Heinrich Meyer, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:54, 3 June 2015 (UTC)