User talk:Surfer5400

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Copying within Wikipedia

I probably appreciate why you copied the content of Adrift in Manhattan to Draft:Speed and Angels i.e. to give yourself a blueprint to start the article about Speed and Angels on. Unfortunately copying content inside Wikipedia like that causes all sorts of attribution problems. It is important that all contributors to an article have their contribution attributed under the terms of the licence that applies to all edits. Copying and pasting like you did removes that attribution and while your intent is that none of the original content will remain after you've worked up the draft, saving the work does put that material in the article history and hence it needs to be attributed.

I know this sounds terribly bureaucratic but imagine it was the other way round and somebody used all your work without crediting you as the original author!

What I suggest is that you have two windows open with your draft in one and your model template in the other and refer to the model and its layout that way. If you need to copy something like the infobox then do so but from the {{Infobox film#Usage}} template page instead. Nthep (talk) 21:09, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nthep:

Thank you, will do.

Surfer5400 (talk) 21:33, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Concern regarding Draft:Speed and Angels

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:03, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Speed and Angels

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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. If 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!} 21:49, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Paco Chierici

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