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Invitation

Looking at your edit history, I wonder if you're interested in WikiProject LGBT studies? If you are interested, come on by and sign up! :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 16:24, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for contributing the article on the Mattachine Society. Blue Rasberry (talk) 02:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Plagarism

Please read the plagiarism guideline.

There is a lot of text in Wikiepdia copied from sources that are copyright expired or Licence compatible sources (see Category:Attribution templates), these include American and British Government sources, indeed I suspect that Wikipedia had a large influence on the British Government protect fronted by the UK National Archives (see Open Government Licence). Also Wikiepdia has whole projects dedicated to copying information from PD sources. See for example WP:WP DNB and WP:EB1911. There are currently about 7,500 articles in the Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of National Biography and and about 12,000 Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

If you think that articles such as Richard Williams (alias Cromwell)are using archaic language then you are free to copy edit it and bring it up to date. When I created the article I did so expecting people to do that. But I felt that it was better to have the biography in existence and in a form that is both easily accessible and editable than having a stub or no article at all. -- PBS (talk) 17:05, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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