User talk:Ian Pitchford - Misplaced Pages

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Clockwork Soul 15:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyright Policy

Good work creating new articles and contributing to exisiting ones. When you make contributions, be careful that you don't include copyrighted material. Copyright rules are complicated, so take some time to review Misplaced Pages:Copyrights. A good general rule is that most things on the internet are already copyrighted by someone else, so they cannot be contributed to wikipedia. Again, content from webpages is usually copyrighted and cannot be added to wiki. Keep up the good work, and feel free to contact me with questions. Feco

Submitting Your Work

If you are the copyright holder, please indicate this on the talk page of any of your content that you submit. Feco 18:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for this important reminder on copyright. I am copyright holder of the material in the articles created today and I'm happy for it to be freely available.

Creating Articles w/ Categories

Good work creating new articles. When you create things, it helps tremendously to assign them to an accurate category (see WP:CG for info). If you're really not sure about categories, at least assign your new articles a stub category (see WP:SC for info). By assigning a category, you help make sure your new articles don't get lost as 'orphans' that are not associated with related topics. Feco

auto-generated message above... esp. with the academic nature of your submissions, it will help tremendously to spend some time adding wikilinks and especially categories to the pages. Articles that lack those items are considered orphans, and much less likely to be found by other users of wikipedia. By tying your article to a category and to other articles, it becomes part of a related family, where the knowledge is much more accessible and usable to wiki users. Feco 21:57, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DI page

Glad we agree on something! I thought you might. You made some good edits, I might add. --VorpalBlade 12:49, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Howard Ahmanson, Jr

I added a new opening to Teach the Controversy and VorpalBlade decided to hide it by reverting the page. I think you have hit the nail on the head by shining a light on Howard Ahmanson, Jr because he is clearly behind all of this. MPLX/MH 18:54, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VorpalBlade has now reverted the page for a second time. MPLX/MH 04:41, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Teach the Controversy

If you have some time, could you explain your reasoning as to why you put Teach the Controversy on vfd? Thanks! Kim Bruning 23:52, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)