Lindab116

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Speedy deletion nomination of Major George William Ford (Military Soldier)

Hello Lindab116,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Major George William Ford (Military Soldier) for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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Yeeno (talk) 01:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

This is my information that I am citing - so what is the problem. Lindab116 (talk) 02:28, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

I wrote the book and am the family historian - I have changed the article and citations. Lindab116 (talk) 18:11, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

May 2022

Hello Lindab116! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Yeeno (talk) 01:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at West Ford shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
The hatnote and maintenance templates that you deleted are being discussed at Talk:West Ford. Please take your concerns about this content to the article's talk page before deleting them again. Shearonink (talk) 16:48, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

All I am doing is adding page numbers which was requested. Thank you for your patience as I learn to navigate wikipedia. Lindab116 (talk) 16:58, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

The above notice is only referring to your repeated deletion of the hatnote and maintenance templates at West Ford. Whether to retain those or not is being discussed on the article's talkpage. I know you're navigating your way around and are kind of new at all this - I didn't want you to inadvertently run afoul of the bright-line 3 Revert rule which states "An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period." If you do so you can get temporarily blocked from editing. Just wanted you to know. Shearonink (talk) 17:05, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks - I didn't know this rule. I wanted to get the page number citations up ASAP and didn't know there was a 24-hour period. While adding the page numbers, I wanted to make sure that I was able to add more cited information. It seems there is much to learn and I thank you for your guidance. Lindab116 (talk) 17:17, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

The problem isn't getting those page numbers in, the problem is that you have now deleted that content three times within the past few hours and that is against good Wikipedia editing practices. You need to restore the templates and the hatnote and participate in the talkpage discussion. Shearonink (talk) 18:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Citation Resources

Hi, I've noticed that you copy the same reference multiple times in your article edits. I thought these resources might be helpful and give you an idea on how to reuse already existing citations in articles. [Using Existing References] Dr vulpes (talk) 05:32, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

West Ford

Hello, we need to change the title back to simply “West Ford”. The only time Wikipedia allows parentheticals in article titles is to remove ambiguity, and here there’s no ambiguity because there’s no other Wikipedia article titled “West Ford.” It’s the same with George Washington (no parenthetical). Okay? Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:30, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia:Common name. In your edit summary you said that: "There is several cities and a car dealership" However, all the places are Westford and there is no article on a car dealership. If an article is created on the car dealership then we can look at Wikipedia:Disambiguation, especially Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Is there a primary topic?. DO you have something that you can about the car dealership so editors could tell if it's notable? Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 05:45, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Also. You forgot to move the talk page when you moved the article. Neither "Father" or "Founder" are acceptable as they should not be capitalised. Go to Talk:West Ford:Article title and discuss there. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 06:10, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

New message from Shearonink

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:West Ford § Maintenance tags and hatnote - removal or not - let's discuss. Shearonink (talk) 16:22, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
2. Then click on "Templates".
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

• Before clicking on Publish changes, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
• And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.

7.  Click on Publish changes. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Shearonink (talk) 16:40, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

• To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

Linda Allen Hollis moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Linda Allen Hollis, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:29, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Linda Allen Hollis

Hello, Lindab116. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Linda Allen Hollis, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:01, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

AI images

Thanks for your work on historical biographies, but be aware that Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Editing_images discourages the use of AI upscaling on images:

AI upscaling software should generally not be used to increase the resolution or quality of an old or low-resolution image. Original historical images should always be used in place of AI upscaled versions. If an AI-upscaled image is used in an article, this fact should be noted in its caption.

The educational value of an "enhanced close-up" of a low-quality historical photograph is questionable, compared to the original. Belbury (talk) 18:38, 3 October 2023 (UTC)