User talk:Bob W. Stanley
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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Fiddle Faddle 16:10, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 31)
[edit]- User:Bob W. Stanley/sandbox may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Hello! Bob W. Stanley,
I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Fiddle Faddle 16:09, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
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Wikipedia and copyright
[edit]Hello Bob W. Stanley, and welcome to Wikipedia. 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.
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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. Fiddle Faddle 16:10, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a memorial site
[edit]Please see WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Fiddle Faddle 16:11, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 1)
[edit]- User:Bob W. Stanley/sandbox may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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November 2015
[edit]Your addition to User:Bob W. Stanley/sandbox has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Do NOT copy and paste material form external sites Fiddle Faddle 16:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Please understand that Wikipedia is not a site for you to place a memorial
[edit]Apart from copying and pasting material that is someone else's copyright, please read, this time, WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Wikipedia is not your personal web hosting service. I'm sorry that a relative sharing your name has died, but you may not use Wikipedia as a memorial site Fiddle Faddle 16:28, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 1)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Bob W. Stanley/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 1)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Bob W. Stanley/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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AfC notification: Draft:Bob W. Stanley has a new comment
[edit]Your submission at Articles for creation: Bob W. Stanley (November 2)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Bob W. Stanley and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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I shall leave this to another reviewer from now on. Please do take the advice. While I am not always right I get it right more often than not. Fiddle Faddle 16:43, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Sockpuppet investigation
[edit]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/Bob W. Stanley, 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.
Fiddle Faddle 15:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Only warning
[edit]You have been found to be a sockmaster. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bob W. Stanley. Your puppet account has been indefinitely blocked. This is your only warning. If you use another account in the future, you risk being indefinitely blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 09:49, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Draft:Bob W. Stanley
[edit]Draft:Bob W. Stanley, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Bob W. Stanley and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Bob W. Stanley during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 23:53, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
November 2015
[edit]This is your only warning; if you create an inappropriate page again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. If you persist in creating inappropriate pages, notably your memorial pages to Mr Stanley, you will be blocked. You are walking on very thin ice
If, instead, you create appropriate, well referenced pages, pages that meet our needs here and are according to our rules, then please go ahead. Fiddle Faddle 15:15, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Template deleted
[edit]I have deleted Template:Bob W. Stanley. A template is not the place to write an article - see Help:A quick guide to templates for more detail. The draft at Draft:Bob W. Stanley is what you should be working on: please do not create any more new pages on this subject.
I should add to all the warnings you have been given above that you are probably wasting your time, because Wikipedia is not for what you are trying to do. You would do better at Familypedia or Facebook, or you may get some ideas at Wikipedia:Alternative outlets. JohnCD (talk) 18:58, 14 November 2015 (UTC)