User talk:Iangrant1964

Re: Gwen Grant ‎

I removed her name for the reason I stated in my edit summary—there was no article on her. You have now written an article on her, but this was after I removed her.

There are problems with the article that need addressed: Firstly from your username it would appear that you are Gwen Grant's husband, so please read our policy on conflicts of interest. If you are indeed her husband I ask that you refrain from writing about her on Wikipedia. Also, the article that you have written does not include any citations to reliable soures—for reasons of verifiability, biographies of living people that do not cite reliable sources may be deleted. Thanks, —Jeremy (talk) 01:54, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation; I'm still confused. I'm sure my Mom isn't the only person of note who's not in Wikipedia! A quick Google search would reveal who she is. I am getting the verifications together; it might take a couple of weeks. I live in America, and all the material I need is in England. The books are easily verified if you go onto Amazon (I notice that the .co.uk one is better for finding her work).

As mentioned, she has two sons: Andrew and Ian. I'm Ian. I was named after my father. To be honest, I'm a little insulted by your inference - surely you know that sometimes sons are named after their fathers?

Iangrant1964 (talk) 02:14, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

We get a lot of people who like to spam things onto Wikipedia; we want to be careful that what comes in here is an appropriate topic for an encyclopedia. I think that your mother passes notability guidelines, at least enough to get it past speedy deletion, so I don't think you have a lot to worry about there; but the article needs some work. It's all right, we'll help you out, we don't expect it to be perfect. Also, I'm not sure why you're so insulted; my cousin is named after my uncle, and if we were to call "Brian", everyone would be thinking that they were looking for my uncle. We always refer to the younger one as "Brian Jr". I think it's a reasonable inference, given your username; how would any of us know? Anyways; I'd suggest you check the link JeremyA put in above, and ask either one of us if you need any help. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 02:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

It was the way he phrased his point.

As I said, I'm working on some other information, and getting the verifications needed. (I assume they can be from sources not on the Internet?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.169.122 (talk) 05:11, 17 December 2010 (UTC) Oops. I didn't realize I wasn't logged in. Sorry about that. Iangrant1964 (talk) 05:38, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about my mistake—I didn't look at your mother's date of birth. Offline sources are OK (and sometimes preferable). —Jeremy (talk) 16:15, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Iangrant1964 - as you are the son of the author and the subject of the article, it may be in your best interest to declare a conflict of interest on Gwen Grant's article talk page. It would also be worth reading the linked article to ensure that people know you are editing the encyclopedia in good faith. --tgheretford (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Gwen Grant article

Thank you for creating a new article on Wikipedia and for your good faith contributions, however, I had to remove some text from the article as per copyright violation policy regarding information you added, because it was a duplicate of the text in this copyrighted newsletter: http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/county_lit_spring_2003.pdf. You may wish to add back information about the author in your own words backed up with verifiable multiple reliable sources. Don't put the copyrighted text back in, Wikipedia takes copyright violation seriously (for obvious legal reasons) and you could be blocked from editing. Apologies for any inconvenience my removal may have caused. --tgheretford (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Done! And thanks! Apologies for not making that explicit earlier. Iangrant1964 (talk) 15:16, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh?

I wasn't aware the British government could claim copyright? The US government (the one I'm most familiar with at this point), can't claim copyright. I probably should have guessed the British government, or that a regional British government, could claim copyright!

I'm rewriting bits of the entry. As this is a small project for me, getting the information I need can be challenging, and I've got quite a lot to do otherwise, it might take a wee while to complete the rewrite. Shouldn't be more than a few weeks, however.

Thanks for the help.