User talk:Discusdoc

George A. Brooks[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the George A. Brooks article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the "Help Desk". You can also leave a message on my talk page. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 06:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. The problem was that the layout looked like a cut-and-paste from another site; at the very least, it looked liked a copy of a curriculum vitae. You're free to recreate the page in your own words; the WP:MOS can be of help to you as well. Please don't hesitate to leave word if you have any questions. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 04:27, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did not delete your article nor establish the copyright violation, though I did notice that it did seem to have a biased point of view, i.e., it was very full of praise and appeared to lack substantive sources. I did not get the impression that his work fit Wikipedia's standards for notability. The issue did not appear to be with the external links, unless the external links contained the same text, which would be a copyright issue. If you can provide two or three external sites (not blogs or self-published sources) that cite his notability, you might have a reason to recreate the article, though it needs to be less of a puff piece.-- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 19:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]