User talk:Ryanhendrickson

March 2011

Please stop removing speedy deletion notices from pages that you have created yourself, as you did with Missouri Boys State. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. creating a new account for this purpose is a VERY bad thing, more on that in just a minute! WuhWuzDat 20:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did that because your system recommended I use a different account. Ryanhendrickson (talk) 21:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mbs1938 for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. WuhWuzDat 20:27, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FYI conflict of interest guideline

see also: Wikipedia is not a soapbox and Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages?

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia in Missouri Boys State or other articles, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. – Athaenara ✉ 22:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to contribute to Wikipedia by adding an organization of which I have knowledge of, but also a volunteer for. What beter way to get information on the organization? I was in the middle of adapting the information to conform with your policies but then you just deleted it. I read through your conlfict of interest page link. Ryanhendrickson (talk) 22:10, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Thom Higgins (October 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00715.pdf. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Thom Higgins may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

S0091 (talk) 15:04, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! can you undelete this page, place it back into draft so I can fix the issue? Ryanhendrickson (talk) 17:35, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryan, no copyright violations cannot be restored due to legal implications so you will have to recreate the draft, this time using your own words to summarize what sources have written about Higgins. Please also the notability guidelines. If you have questions or need help, you can ask at the Teahouse. S0091 (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info! I've re-created the draft.

As far as notability, I do see that Thom Higgins is mentioned on many pages on Wikipedia -- just no page about him. Ryanhendrickson (talk) 17:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ryanhendrickson! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering 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! S0091 (talk) 15:04, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Ryanhendrickson! Your additions to Draft:Thom Higgins have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 15:27, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Thom Higgins

Hello, Ryanhendrickson. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Thom Higgins, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:01, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Thom Higgins

Hello, Ryanhendrickson. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Thom Higgins".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]