User talk:Robinette Q

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Robinette Q, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Julia Reid. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Iambic Pentameter _{(talk / contribs)} 12:43, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor honorific[edit]

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that recent edits of yours have an edit summary that could seem inaccurate or confusing. This is with regard to your edits on Ian Duncan (politician) and Kay Swinburne. Whilst your removal of the honorific prefix "Dr" is constructive, your justification could present itself otherwise. In your edit summaries you justify removal of the prefix as it is "not a title". In the past I have had my edits reverted because others have viewed this as untrue. It would be more suitable to refer to the relevant section in the WP:MOS (Wikipedia Manual of Style) which documents how articles should be structured. Under the Manual of Style, this can be found under the short link MOS:DOCTOR. If you simply make the edit giving in the edit summary "removed doctor - see MOS:DOCTOR" your edits are much less likely to be reverted by those who are not familiar with the fact that the title "Doctor" should not be used. --Iambic Pentameter _{(talk / contribs)} 13:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

January 2017[edit]

Hello, I'm Iryna Harpy. An edit that you recently made to Vladimir Putin seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Iryna Harpy (talk) 08:56, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate nomination[edit]

Please DO NOT nominate articles you haven't worked much on at FAC without consulting frequent contributors. Your nomination of John Kerry wasn't appropriate at all when you not only have just barely ever edited the page, but also completely neglected to talk about it beforehand with anybody. It has since been deleted as a result. Snuggums (talk / edits) 03:29, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Robinette Q, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Eric Walsh (ambassador) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:56, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for for being a suspected sock puppet of ThomasPark02 (talk · contribs). If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. DrKay (talk) 08:12, 20 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Eric Walsh (ambassador)[edit]

The article Eric Walsh (ambassador) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Ambassadors rarely meet WP:POLITICIAN and doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Boleyn (talk) 11:46, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]