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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Shearonink (talk) 05:36, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2013

Hello Peigimccann, 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. Shearonink (talk) 05:40, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please try not to feel discouraged about these latest issues with the Gillies Hill article-draft, the content can still possibly be used within Wikipedia. First, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and then if the copyright-holder wishes to donate the brochure-content for Wikipedia to use, you will need to follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. Thank you, Shearonink (talk) 05:48, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

May 2013

I see that you are working on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gillies Hill. Before you submit this draft for AfC Review, please make sure that any possible copyright issues have been taken care of. (A previous version was deleted for copyright infringement of the Save Gillies Hill website.) If copyrighted content is in this draft, and the copyright holder of the website materials wishes to donate text/images to Wikipedia for this proposed article, the site-owner has to follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. If you have any further questions or concerns about this matter, you can always post at Wikipedia:Teahouse or follow the instructions in the yellow box at Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help and ask for help in the IRC/Wikipedia-help channel. Thank you, Shearonink (talk) 21:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sheronink, Yes, I've put sections from Peter Paterson's book and writing in my own words. Hopefully those and all others are now OK. I've also figured out the footnotes and how to place images more appropriately. I'm not quite ready to re-submit it, I'd like to proof it a couple of times first. (Peigimccann (talk) 22:04, 1 June 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Controverial section

Dear Peigimccann:

You certainly have put a lot of work into the Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gillies Hill article. It will be coming up for review shortly. I notice that on the final section, which contains some information that could be controversial, you don't have any citations. Since your information is very specific, I assume that you know of sources - news reports, magazine articles, books, etc. If you add citations to these sources to support your information in that section, it will be more likely to remain after the article is put into the encyclopedia. Controversial material with no citations is often deleted. Good luck! —Anne Delong (talk) 11:48, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the input! I'll address that section today; yes there are newsletters, etc. The situation is on-going, changing daily, so I'll try to cite references a week or two older! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.48.141 (talk) 14:07, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As per your suggestion, I've added references to the final section. One thing I'm confused about is that an alert says I should be using User: Peigimccann. How do I change that and will that bump the article back? Thanks.

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Jamesx12345 (talk) 21:24, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now that Gillies Hill has been created, it needs to be polished up a bit. It seems that refs do not point to the specific page, but just to a domain. I am afraid that the full page is needed, but Google will help, or your browser history. Using the cite web template will make things neater. It is a very comprehensive article, or so it seems, but I am concerned that some parts are overly based on other sources. That should in due course change as it is updated and edited. Many thanks. Jamesx12345 (talk) 21:42, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, James, I will definitely be working on this, updating it as things occur and will hone down the references ... I appreciate the time you put in reading it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.48.141 (talk) 22:16, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! it's an article!

SO glad you were able to get the Gillies Hill draft all fixed up, here's a mug of (whatever is your favorite) draft beverage to celebrate being persistent and not giving up. Shearonink (talk) 22:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you! I am so excited! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.48.141 (talk) 22:44, 11 June 2013 (UTC) Oops I should have signed it! (Peigimccann (talk) 05:22, 12 June 2013 (UTC))[reply]

File permission problem with File:Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris.png

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Please delete File:Eurasian red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris.png I am not currenlty using it in the Gillies Hill article and so have no reason to pursue proving copyright. thank-you.

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