User talk:Jack Pippin

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Hello, Jack Pippin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created like Peter Marshall (author) may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted (if it hasn't already).

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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Copyright problems[edit]

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Peter Marshall (author), 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.internet-today.co.uk/pm/biography.cfm. As a copyright violation, Peter Marshall (author) appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Peter Marshall (author) 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 GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Rogerb67 (talk) 20:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I would be happy to undelete this, but, as noted above, we need to get permission from the original author first and it needs to be emailed to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org. I appreciate that this may not be simple to do, but we have to take copyright very seriously. If you have any questions, please do let me know. Very best regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The message above explains how to submit evidence of permission. I've also summarised this at Talk:Peter Marshall (author). We do need to have permission on record. Alternatively, you can rewrite the material in your own words. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for obtaining the necessary permission. Best wishes, Angus McLellan (Talk) 02:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Marshall (author)[edit]

Hi Jack it's good to see you are still editing at Wikipedia and interested in the above article. I don't know if you noticed the tags at the top of the page? It would be good if you could do some work on the article to address these issues, otherwise significant parts of it, or even the whole article, may need to be deleted. WP:BLP is extremely strict on the proper references and citations for biographical material relating to living people. Additionally, I don't think that the case has been established for the notability of this individual, as discussed at WP:NOTABILITY and WP:PEOPLE. More details of Peter Marshall's television and radio work may be helpful here as it may turn up significant coverage of Peter Marshall in reliable third-party sources (I have made some attempt at this but was unable to discover the programs' names). If notability can't be established, that will jeopardise the article's existence as well.

Finally, I note that this article is the only one on which you have worked. It is possible that you may be closely involved with Peter Marshall. If so, please take note of the warnings at WP:COI which may apply (they may very well not, but I thought it worth mentioning).

Thanks, --Rogerb67 (talk) 20:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Roger,

I've edited out weasel words and added references as you requested. Apart from his varied output, he is notable for having written standard works on anarchism and ecology. Perhaps you could now untag your reservations. Thanks, Jack Pippin 20 January 2009