User talk:Looking2You

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March 2014

Hello Looking2You, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twelve Visions Party has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 07:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

References and citing sources, more copyvio

I've reverted your recent edits there. A couple of reasons.

One is that those were not references, they were material that should have been in the article with references. You need to read WP:CITE. I use Wikipedia:RefToolbar.

Sources must discuss the subject. You can't use [1] for the article on the party as it doesn't mention the party. Neither does smartervoter, etc.

Copyright violations - you really need to be careful about this. "On June 25, Massachusetts voters will elect a U.S. Senator to fill John Kerry’s term. The ballot will include three candidates, the Democratic nominee, the Republican nominee, and the nominee of the Twelve Visions Party. He is Richard Heos. Here is a story about his campaign." is copied from the source, and makes no sense in any case as appears to refer to the coming June 25th. And we wouldn't write "here is a story".

"Below is the page link for the Twelve Visions Party with the Federal Elections Commission; however this page link shows no recent posts related to the Twelve Visions Party." In other words, it doesn't belong in the article because it doesn't talk about the subject.

The article needs more commentary from independent sources. I've removed your image because primary sources are already predominant, and that simply overwhelmed the article. Our articles are meant to be built upon what reliable sources say about a subject, not about what the subject says about itself. There's a learning curve in Wikipedia and sometimes it's steep. Dougweller (talk) 07:12, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 13 March

Hello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:

• On the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twelve Visions Party page, your edit caused a missing references list (help | help with group references). (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot (talk) 00:27, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I fixed these. Please don't add {{reflist}} again. Dougweller (talk) 18:05, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Your use of multiple Wikipedia accounts

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Twosided55, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Magog the Ogre (t • c) 03:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)