User talk:Umfiki

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Hello, Umfiki! 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! Dougweller (talk) 15:22, 2 August 2010 (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

Blombos Cave

My computer crashed while I was writing this - I think I said that I am really pleased to see someone working on this article but I've had to remove all your edits because they are copyright violation of articles by the author you are writing about on your user page. Would you please read Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the links, particularly the one on close paraphrasing.

There were a couple of other problems. The text was too dense, but rewriting to avoid copyvio will avoid that. You also need to learn how to cite sources properly as you'd made a bit of a mess (no offense meant). Read Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and then the link on that page about citing sources. I also see you are writing an article on your user page. Before you turn it into a real article in article space, could you make sure it conforms to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) and in particular, as the subject is alive, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Again, you need to reference it and you must add some citations to third party sources (reliable in our terms, see WP:RS and independent) - this is required for living subjects. Some should show that he meets our criteria of notability at Wikipedia:Notability (academics).

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have, and can point you to boards where you can ask for help or guidance. Again welcome, and I'm sorry I had to remove your hard work. Dougweller (talk) 16:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)