Mwilliams087

Calchasm

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Calchasm

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Copyright problems with Brownbrokers

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May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Brownbrokers, a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a {{hangon}} tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. OlYeller^Talktome 20:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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November 2011

Your addition to Brownbrokers has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia 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. Filing Flunky (talk) 19:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm confused about why my pictures were removed. Both are in my possession and taken by me (one is a scanned copy of a photo I owned). I wanted to add them to WikiCommons and put them in the public domain. Please advise! Thank you!

Mwilliams087 (talk) 19:35, 29 November 2011 (UTC)Michael

I also wanted to change the name to ""Brownbrokers (Brown University)"" to clarify that it is a University-affiliated producing body.

Mwilliams087 (talk) 19:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)Michael

I'm not sure about the pictures as I can't see their history now but I'm guessing that by putting them up on the website you originally did, you donated them to that copyrighted source meaning that they can't also be donated here unless the original source changes their license of them. That's something you would have to work out with them.

The page move isn't warranted and doesn't particularly follow the naming guideline that was linked in the edit summary but I don't really care to change it. The only thing it will do is make it slightly harder to find your page.

There are two problems that I'd like to bring to your attention, though. As a new editor, I'm sure you aren't intimately familiar with the plethora of WP guidelines and policies and no one really expects you to be at this point. The first thing I wanted to point out is that you removed several improvement templates from the article without an explanation and without explicitly addressing the issues they mention. Doing this repeatedly can result in being blocked but as this I'm guessing this isn't something you're aware of, you're in no trouble. The second issue is that you never use an edit summary. There's a box just below the edit box (the one you edit content in) where comments can be left. This is helpful, especially when making large changes to an article, to make notes as to what you're doing. You don't have to leave a note every single time but even a short note like "reply" or "fixing date" or "adding ref" can be very useful. Otherwise, the edit history of the page looks like it does; a large list of edits that have to be gone through one-by-one to asses what has been done. You can read more about edit summaries at HELP:Edit summary.

I'm going to reapply the improvement templates as they'll alert other editors who specialize in those areas that the article can be improved. If you'd like to remove them, please start a discussion on the talk page of the article before doing so. That way, other editors can discuss the removal to try and make the article the best it can be.

If you have any questions not related to the content of the article, feel free to leave a message here or on my talk page and I'll do my best to help out. OlYeller21^Talktome 21:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)