User talk:Born And Bred Scarborough

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Crown Hotel Scarborough

Thank you for contributing an article on the Crown Hotel Scarborough. I have removed your text and replaced it with a basic article stub, because it looked like your text was copied and pasted from another website or work outside of Wikipedia: this is not allowed for copyright reasons. My apologies if this is not the case: if the work is your own, please add carefully to the stub which I've created, making sure you cite your sources as you go. Especially, please add information on the notability of the Hotel. Topics in Wikipedia need to meet certain criteria for inclusion. If this information isn't added, I'm afraid the article may be nominated for deletion. Thanks for your contributions! — mholland 02:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who died and made you god!? A simple google plagiarism search would have shown this this is myown work! I work in this hotel and the information is from and article I have written for guest information; the text is my own and the information is from the history documentation within the hotel. The hotel owners over the years have collected and saved many guest books, newspaper clippings, menus and pictures; acting as custodians. Please place my article back! I was about to add pictures and tidy the text up. But I have to work, as I can not sit "all day every day" editing an article from start to finish!

My apologies for assuming plagiarism. Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot accept original research either - you need only cite a few sources (a published book on local history perhaps?) for your work to be verified and accepted. These are not my rules and I'm certainly no God here: you can revert my edit if you wish, but it's likely that another editor will flag your page for cleanup or deletion. — mholland 18:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose I might be able to find some local books that I haven't used but verify the dates.How do I get the page back?

Your text is here, available from the history tab on the article. I would advise against restoring that version. Intead, I would recommend adding material back piecemeal, ensuring that you mark it up according to the Manual of Style, in sections, with appropriate links and references. — mholland 13:17, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok will do thanks! I am new to this, I havedone a bit ofbackkground and I understand now why you were concerned about the copyright issue. Sorry if I came across a bit "pissed". I have a stack of local pictures, I suppose it is OK to use these?

If your pictures are in the public domain (if the photographer/artist has been dead for more than 100 years and in select other circumstances) then you can upload them, and mark them 'public domain'.

If you own the copyright to the images (you usually only own the copyright if you are the photographer/artist, if you employed the photographer/artist to make the image, or if copyright has been specifically assigned or sold to you by the creator) then you can upload them and license Wikipedia to use and distribute them.

If you do not own the copyright, you can only upload an image if the creator agrees to license it in a way compatible with Wikipedia policy, or if the image meets Fair Use criteria.

There is a better explanation on the Image Use Policy page. If you want any help in selecting appropriate image tags, there is a request for copyright assistance page, but you may be better off asking me or another user. We'll be more than happy to help. Best wishes. — mholland 01:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]