User talk:RichSwietek

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Rankersbo (talk) 07:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures (October 28)[edit]

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Rankersbo (talk) 07:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, the article seemed to be a lightly re-written version of the programme's publicity booklet. You can use the booklet as a source of facts, but the article must be in your own words and not just a re-hashed version of someone elses. The article was excessively wrong and most the sources supported facts about dragons rather than the notability of the film itself. Rankersbo (talk) 07:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your message on my talk page[edit]

The message above was not from me - you can see who sent it by the signature at the end. However, I will reply to your points:

The copyright problem is not because of your previous version, but because you have copied wholesale from other websites. You say you "did not merely copy and paste from another source" but, to take just one example, your section "Tiamat" is a word-for-word copy of this, and the same is true for other parts I checked, many from here.

Copyright is a very serious issue for Wikipedia, so both human and automatic systems check incoming articles. Just changing a few words does not avoid a copyright violation; please read WP:Copy-paste and WP:Close paraphrasing. For instance, your article says:

"the legend of dragons unfolds through a conversation between Skye Ingram (Laurence Leboeuf), a young woman with recurring nightmares of dragons, and Dr. Alistair Conis (Max von Sydow), an eccentric dream therapist and expert on dragons"

which is much too close to your source in the website:

"dragon legends unfold through a conversation between Skye Ingram (Laurence Leboeuf), a young woman troubled by recurring nightmares of dragons, and the peculiar Dr. Alistair Conis (Max von Sydow), a dream therapist of sorts and an expert on dragons."

You must write in your own words. A good way to avoid unwitting copying is to read your sources thoroughly, go and do something else for a few hours, then come back and write without referring to the sources. After you have done that, you can check against them for accuracy.

The article seems unfocussed, wandering from a synopsis of the film to biographies of the actors and general discussion about dragons. We already have articles Max von Sydow, Laurence Leboeuf and Dragon, with subsidiary articles like Slavic dragon and Chinese dragon. An encyclopedia article should have a single theme: if this is about the film, I suggest you write a shorter article that concentrates on the film. More points:

Check out WP:Notability (films) and look for independent references, e.g. reviews, to establish notability.
Be careful not to sound promotional; avoid "peacock terms" like unique. If you article seems to be trying to sell the film, it will not be accepted.
Read WP:WAF; the article should not be entirely "in-universe" about the world of the film, but should cover real-world information about its making and its reception.
Look at WP:WikiProject Film: under the heading "Announcements and open tasks" there are lists of "Featured article candidates" and "Good article candidates". They will give you an idea of what an article about a film should look like.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:14, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures - 3D (January 24)[edit]

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Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at AfC Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures - 3D was accepted[edit]

Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures - 3D, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:25, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]