Papparolf

Wolves and Moose on Isle Royale

Papparolf,

I've been working on cleaning up the layout of the article you posted at the link above. I have a question, though, regarding copyright. The format and tone of the article suggests that it is an academic paper that was reposted here verbatim. Since your username suggests that you might be Rolf Peterson, a very active researcher on the topic at hand, I wanted to ask whether this is a paper that you had already written and published. Thanks much for your contribution to Wikipedia! --Dachannien^Talk_Contrib 05:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Dachannien,

Being completely honest with you, this was my senior research paper that I wrote for my composition class in high school. There is no plagiarism in this paper, all of the research that I drew from in this paper was fairly obtained, and cited. I submitted this to Wikipedia because I have long adored this site, and frequently visit it when I need to know something about something, or someone, being that WIkipedia seems to have an article on just about everything that is worth knowing. So, when I first started researching on the topic of "wolves and moose on Isle Royale," I immediately checked to see what, if anything Wikipedia had about it. To my dismay, there were no articles to be found relating to the topic. So, I told my friends that once I completed the paper I would submit it on Wikipedia. Finally, I got around to doing it recently, so I set up an account, and as I read through the rules of submitting articles, I realized that my paper probably had no shot of becoming an article. I would love to share this interesting topic with everyone, but I completely understand if you or someone else removes it from this site. Thank you for your time, and feel free to ask any more questions about the article.

PS. My user name is "Papparolf," because nearly every research I found on the topic was done by, or made some mention of Rolf Peterson. The only connection I have to Rolf is that I e-mailed him while I was researching the topic.

Well, as a Wikipedia article, your paper has a lot of great information. It really just needs modified for form, to make it more like a Wikipedia entry in style. Since your research paper cites all its sources and doesn't create a copyright problem, there is no reason to remove the article. Thanks for your contribution!  :) --Dachannien^Talk_Contrib 01:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)