User talk:The Walled City

Hello, The Walled City! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! FlowerpotmaN·(t) 16:46, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Copyright problems with Lady McCorkell

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Lady McCorkell, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8260583/Lady-McCorkell.html. As a copyright violation, Lady McCorkell appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Lady McCorkell has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Lady McCorkell and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 16:46, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Lady McCorkell

I'm sorry, but I have had to delete your article. Copyright is a very serious issue for Wikipedia, and your article was entirely copied from various newspaper items, notably the Telegraph obituary. Minor changes of wording are not enough to avoid a copyright violation - see Wikipedia:Copy-paste and, for more detail, Wikipedia:Copyrights. Lady McCorkell seems an excellent subject for an article, but you must write it in your own words, using the newspaper obituaries as sources. The article should be called "Aileen McCorkell" - we do not normally use titles in article titles. You might like to prepare a draft in your user space - see Help:Userspace draft for how to do that - but you must not copy material even for a draft, we cannot host copyright material anywhere in Wikipedia, not even in user space. There is good advice at WP:Your first article. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:02, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

McCorkell descent

Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability, specifically the self-published sources section. For your reference, this reads:

Anyone can create a personal web page, self-publish a book, or claim to be an expert. That is why self-published material such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs (as distinguished from newsblogs, above), content farms, internet forum postings, and social media postings are largely not acceptable as sources. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications

Belmont in Northern Ireland is quite clearly a self-published blog by "Timothy William Ferres". His Blogger profile contains no information that he is an established expert as required above. Similarly the Angelfire site is also self-published. The home page identifies the author as "Barry Christopher Noonan". He is certainly a published author, but his area of expertise would appear to be largely Wisconsin related subjects so he doesn't appear to be an established expert on descendants of King Edward III of England or the McCorkells.

That both references have been in articles for some time, they are not acceptable according to policy and should not be used. FDW777 (talk) 10:44, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Help me!

Please help me with with adding an info box to the page of Michael McCorkell, using the image from this article: https://strokecitystories.com/revealed-the-untold-story-behind-a-secret-meeting-between-the-ira-and-british-government-in-derry/

To include sections on the following:

| honorific_prefix = Colonel Sir | name = Michael McCorkell | honorific suffix = KCVO CStJ OBE TD JP | birth_date = (1955-05-03) 3 May 1955 | residence = Ballyarnett, Londonderry | nationality = British | regiment = Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 16th/5th Lancers, North Irish Horse | occupation = Soldier, businessman and public servant | office = Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry | office = High Sheriff of County Londonderry | spouse = [[Aileen McCorkell|Lady McCorkell|1950| | children = 4, David McCorkell

The Walled City (talk) 14:11, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

The image cannot be used as it is subject to copyright. Praxidicae (talk) 14:30, 4 October 2019 (UTC)