User talk:WilliamBerry

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Hello! WilliamBerry, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 21:31, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Reptilicant

The article Reptilicant has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of any notability. Refs are from IMDB and YouTube only. Fails WP:GNG

Except for the Cannes film market fest guide which is neither?

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 22:34, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

August 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Bikini Hotel has been reverted.
Your edit here to Bikini Hotel was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-02GfMw5o) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Bikini Hotel, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Please do not remove tags that have not been fixed and add any information that cannot be fully cited. Thank you. Please do not hesitate to ask me if you have any questions. Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 01:33, 23 August 2016 (UTC) Thats not true! I added references, did a rewrite and somebody else also added references. After that you reverted the page to its previous problematic rough draft.I did not remove prior to this. Ummm. Nicnote. Please stop being condescending. It was removed because the rewrites were done and references added. Per the template it said remove. Your remarks dont appear constructive. Nor does your criticism.Moreover- this film are far more notable than many on this site. Why dont you actually BE constructive and add to it?[reply]

Hi, WilliamBerry. Thank you for contributing to the wikipedia it is after all because of people like you that we have such a wealth of information. If you look at the edit history, I did actually add to it. Before tagging it for several things I did correct the layout of the page and fixed the links to make them look better. If the above message seems condescending then I apologise - it is automated and you can only add to it rather than remove from it. The whole point of maintenance tags is that they provide constructive criticism; you removed them without fixing the page. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, I will do my best to answer / guide you. Best wishes, Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 19:26, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WilliamBerry you can see me doing basic initial clean-up here. I've never spoken to another editor on here like you have and it is genuinely difficult to not take what you have said personally. I regularly take a look at just freshly published articles on the New Pages Patrol, some of them are pure vandalism / advertising for companies or people, so when I see a page that might actually be good my first instinct is to help it. If you look at the top of this talk page you can see that I invited you and gave you some helpful links to read to help you figure out all the things you need to know about editing on Wikipedia. My first ever article in 2014 was actually nominated for speedy deletion and I asked the editors for help (something you should have done) rather than just insult them. I understand the WP:FIVE and WP:BITE (please read these)- I've never spoken to anyone with any subtext or any rude language. I don't mind, but your response has confirmed that I need to take a very long break from editing on Wikipedia, starting now Nicnote • ask me a question • contributions 21:31, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello WilliamBerry, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Reptilicant 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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. — Diannaa (talk) 03:29, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Tina-Desiree Berg for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tina-Desiree Berg is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tina-Desiree Berg until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Marvellous Spider-Man 08:47, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016

Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:Marvellous Spider-Man may be offensive or unwelcome. In general, it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing others' userpages without their permission. Instead, please bring the matter to their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so. Please refer to Wikipedia:User page for more information on User page etiquette. Thank you. Class455 (talk) 15:16, 4 October 2016 (UTC) He deleted an article that was of a notable person without cause- as it was fully cited and wont respond on the page. When I tried to address it- I got "what part of closed do you not understand". So- tell me why that is proper etiquette? Is that polite?[reply]

Sir, I suggest that you decide if you are going to sufficiently comply by the rules here to avoid being blocked. This includes basics like using four tildes to sign your talk-page posts, "~~~~". If you can't be patient with people who are here with agendas and personal problems, you need to either move on or figure out how to influence Wikipedia from the outside. You will hear that Wikipedia is not therapy, but that doesn't mean that a view to improving the lives of those here is a bad idea. Respectfully, Unscintillating (talk) 00:17, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sir- they can go ahead and block. This site should be about veracity and its clearly not.

I mean really? People with agendas and personal problems should be allowed to do whatever? That completely makes this site void of truth- or anything else it aspires too. And the page remains deleted. Sad.

Proposed deletion of Magma: Earth's Molten Core

The article Magma: Earth's Molten Core has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NFILM

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rogermx (talk) 14:46, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]