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Hello Ts2803, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to
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16:26, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
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Justlettersandnumbers (
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00:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, and
welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as
Harvey Schiller, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from
http://www.falconheadcapital.com/team/harvey-w-schiller, and therefore to constitute a
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Justlettersandnumbers (
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15:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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- Hi! The Harvey Schiller article has now been blanked because of repeated copyright violations, and listed at
Wikipedia:Copyright problems for processing. Please be aware that you should not attempt to edit the article until it has been dealt with; that usually takes 7–10 days or sometimes longer, depending on the backlog at that board. I should also warn you that if I see that you have again added copyright material to any article I intend to ask that you be blocked from further editing here until and unless you show understanding and acceptance of our copyright policy. If you would like help or advice on getting started as a Wikipedia editor I am more than happy to offer either or both – I know it isn't easy.
- Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am assuming that you are connected in some way, either personal or professional, with Schiller (no need to respond). If, once the present problems are fixed, there are things you would like to see added to the Schiller article, I'm willing to help with that. The new information, with
independent reliable sources to support it, can be posted (a little at a time, please) on the talk page of the article. I or some other editor will then decide whether to accept the proposed changes or not.
Justlettersandnumbers (
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15:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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(moved here from my user page
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 17:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC))may you please help me with the article on Harvey Schiller? I am just trying to improve the page. The page is in copyright question yet nothing is infringed upon. Please advise, any help will be great. Thank you for helping and all your work in the Wiki community.
Ts2803 (
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16:59, 20 October 2014 (UTC)ts2803
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- Hi! Yes, I will help with the page. It is at
WP:CP now because some of the content you added was copied from
http://www.falconheadcapital.com/team/harvey-w-schiller (or came from the same place as that page), and we can't accept copied content here. It will be restored in a few days, probably. If you are connected in some way to Schiller, you can request changes in this way:
- On the talk page of the article,
Talk:Harvey Schiller, write {{
Request edit}} (exactly like that, with the curly brackets - you can copy it from here)
- Then write the change you want made; for example "Please add that he is Chairman of the Americas Cup"
- Then write the source (a newspaper, book or reliable website) that proves that what you want to add is in fact true; the source needs to be independent of the subject, so not his company or a press release or something he wrote himself
- Somebody will see what you have written, and (not necessarily immediately) will decide whether to make the change or not. Also, if you post here, on this page, I will see that you have done so, and will try to answer.
Justlettersandnumbers (
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17:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
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thank you
Justlettersandnumbers for providing me with direction. I have added to the
Talk:Harvey Schiller, under a {{
Request edit}} heading. You have been helpful. I hope to see the improvements made. I listed reliable sources at the talk page.