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Your addition to K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Dougweller (talk) 11:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Your edits, esp K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater

As you've not responded, I've raised your edits at WP:FTN. Dougweller (talk) 14:46, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

April 2014

Hello SERGEJ2011, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see you've been notified above about our copyright policies and am concerned that you have continued copying content from other sources without properly indicating source.

Some of this material seems to be public domain and can be used as long as you comply with Wikipedia:Plagiarism, which means indicating clearly what you have copied and from where.

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Please go back to your articles and add attribution for your copied content as described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism and Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia to bring this material into compliance with our site's policies and guidelines. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:28, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

That doesn't sound like a usable license for Wikipedia. On Wikipedia, content must be released for modification as well as reuse. If you believe it is a usable license for Wikipedia, then we need verification of it. I'd recommend that you scan the page and email it to the volunteer response team who process and log copyright permissions. If you'd like to go that route, I'll be happy to give you the address. If the page is published legitimately online (that is, if the book is printed somewhere licensed to display it and we can see it there), then that may suffice. Hosting a scan of the page on a personal website would not. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:55, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid that transcribing it on Wikipedia doesn't really help. :/ Unless we can access it. But plagiarism and copyright are different things, and this is a right restriction that is hard to interpret legally: "provided they have well grasped the thought." --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:01, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I'm afraid I don't think that's a usable license, as I mentioned in my last note. "provided they have well grasped the thought" is pretty slippery as far as restrictions on reuse go. But you might want to get a second opinion on that at WT:CP. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:15, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

I need a bit more information here, as I am confused by what seems to be a contradiction in the article and in what you're saying about publication history. Were the letters published in 1919 as at [1] or in 1941 as the article states? --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 00:19, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

If the letters were published in 1919, then they are presumed to be public domain by age regardless of their use in a later book. But looking at the article raises a very important question for me- what makes this book notable? That is, how does it meet the inclusion criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (books)? You need to demonstrate in the article what makes the book notable, not simply talk about the letters. Even the criticism section is not about the book, but about the letters or the philosophies behind them. If notability for the book itself is not established, the article may need to be deleted entirely or rewritten to reflect a topic that does meet inclusion guidelines. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Man: whence, how and whither, a record of clairvoyant investigatio

I've removed quite a bit form this as it was about the concepts and not the book. This article is about a book. It isn't about root races, Atlantis, past lives, etc. I also removed a 1909 publication you used as criticism. Again, it was not criticising the book which not published until 1913. Dougweller (talk) 14:34, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Self-published ebooks

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WP:Undue reliance on a low-quality source

Extensive quotation from an unpublished dissertation, where there is extensive published biographical material, as in the case of Helena Blavatsky, constitutes undue use of a single source. I have removed most of these but retained some of the content in non-quoted form, with appropriate references. HGilbert (talk) 09:05, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Google books covers are not the original covers

The file you uploaded at File:Man_cover.jpg is not the 1922 cover, it is Google Books's new cover for their scan of that edition. Ian.thomson (talk) 23:46, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Buddhism and Theosophy copyright problem

Your addition to the above article was very close to http://www.khamkoo.com/uploads/9/0/0/4/9004485/buddhism_and_science_-_a_guide_for_the_perplexed.pdf, a copyright web page. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation, even if you cite the source. You need to re-state things in your own words; simply changing a few words in a sentence is still a copyright violation if the structure of the sentence is preserved. This was detected by automatic plagiarism detection software. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:03, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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Thought-Forms

Hello, I see you've started the article Thought-Forms (book). There's already a Thought-Forms on the same book, but this was redirected a few years ago, for reasons that are unclear to me. A 2007 AFD for a third article on the book at WP:Articles for deletion/Thoughtform resulted in a strong "keep", yet a few years later Thoughtform was merged to Tulpa after what looks to me like a very brief discussion, which ought to have been a second AFD before merging. Bit of a mess, this. May I therefore suggest that we therefore unredirect Thought-Forms, and merge your (well-sourced) re-write there? We can then also retarget Thoughtform there, to the correctly spelled (and oldest) article. Thanks, Mr. MacTidy (talk) 09:29, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello! I think we should use the discussion pages of these two articles: Thought-Forms (book) or Tulpa. SERGEJ2011 (talk) 12:03, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hey, I am interested in knowing do you work for the Russian Theosophy society? Are you the author of the Theosophy articles you are creating or does your research originate from elsewhere ? Please see current discussion at Fringe theories/Noticeboard 80.225.32.189 (talk) 11:33, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

I am not a member of any theosophical organizations. Everything I wrote is just mine. Thank you. SERGEJ2011 (talk) 13:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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Some falafel for you!

Great article creation in "What Is Theosophy?"! Keep it up! Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 10:35, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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