User talk:Historyobsessor

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Happy editing! Marquardtika (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on Judy Rising Reinke

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Judy Rising Reinke, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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Speedy deletion nomination of Marshall P. Jones

Hello, Historyobsessor,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username SunloungerFrog and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I have tagged an article that you started, Marshall P. Jones, for deletion, because a consensus decision previously decided that it wasn't suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. If you wish to restore a page deleted via a deletion discussion, please use the deletion review process instead, rather than reposting the content of the page.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top. If the page is already deleted by the time you come across this message and you wish to retrieve the deleted material, please contact the deleting administrator.

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SunloungerFrog (talk) 17:03, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Amy W. Diaz moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Amy W. Diaz. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and references should be to reliable secondary sources with significant coverage. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. SunloungerFrog (talk) 17:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

George Arthur Trail III moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to George Arthur Trail III. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and references should be to reliable, independent, secondary sources with with significant coverage. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. SunloungerFrog (talk) 23:20, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marshall P. Jones

Hello. I'm afraid that I disagree with your contested deletion, and specifically your assertion that the article broadly meets Wikipedia's general notability requirement. Source 1 verifies that he was ambassador to Malawi, nothing more. Source 2 is ancestry.com, which is unreliable. Source 3 does not support the statement about his previous posts in the Foreign Service, unless I am really missing something. Source 4 does not cover the subject at all. Source 5 covers the same material, as far as it concerns the subject, as Source 1.

To me, that seems a long way from 2, preferably 3 reliable sources with significant coverage that one needs to establish the notability of a biography. I don't disagree that the subject played an important role in US/Malawi relations around Malawi independence, but if the reliable sources aren't there, there can't be an article, which is what the previous AfD concluded.

Finally, I might also respectfully suggest that, with respect to the merits of having an article or not, you cannot make a convincing argument based solely on what other articles do or do not exist.

Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 01:42, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Winifred Freedman. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 04:35, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Harriet Hageman

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Historyobsessor! Your additions to Jim Kolbe have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:27, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What specifically was copyrighted? I take pride in the fact that I write my contributions myself, so it is strange that it is considered copyrighted. It appears that you removed the summary of the piece of legislation which Kolbe voted on, which I correctly cited. Was there an issue with the citation? Historyobsessor (talk) 14:27, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The description of the Abandoned Shipwrecks Act that you added was identical to that found here. However, looking at the purported source page, I see it is a copy of the Wikipedia page Hal Rogers, where you added identical content in March. Sorry for the mistake. In the future, if you could mention in your edit summary where you copied content from when copying within Wikipedia, that would be helpful. In fact it's required if you are not the original author of the copied material. See WP:Copying within Wikipedia for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:13, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I wrote that content found on Hal Rogers page. I have wrote very similar content on other pages as well. Are you saying that I self-plagarized? I am not quite sure how you want me to address this. What should I say in the edit summary which indicates that I wrote it? Isn't it a given that an editor, unless otherwise noted, wrote the contribution themselves? Thank you. Historyobsessor (talk) 19:29, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the website regarding Hal Rogers which you have linked says nothing about this piece of legislation. Historyobsessor (talk) 19:30, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure it does, under the section "Maritime law".

Regarding the attrubution issue: I have already re-added the content and noted in my edit summary where it came from. Technically attribution is not required if you are the person who wrote the copied content, but it's helpful for patrollers such as myself if you do it anyway; due to the large number of Wikipedia mirrors that exist, your work has already been copied elsewhere online, and the edit where you added it to Jim Kolbe was picked up as a potential copyright violation. I should have noticed that the page was a Wikipedia mirror. Sorry about that.

If you are copying your own work, you can just say in your edit summary something like "Some/all of this edit is copied from [[<page name>]]. I am the original author". If you are copying someone else's prose, the recommended edit summary is "Copied content from [[<page name>]]; see that page's history for attribution".— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:41, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I will do that from now on. I am glad that I didn't accidentally plagiarize some one else's work. Thank you. Historyobsessor (talk) 19:50, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't just say "some of this edit is copied"; please specify from which article you copied it. Preferably you should link the source article as well. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]