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April 2016

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Royal Variety Performance with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 11:11, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Oshwah, Many thanks for your comments concerning the Royal Variety Performance page. The sections that we deleted were very in-accurate so we replaced them with accurate wording and correct information. For your information, we work officially for the Royal Variety Performance and the Royal Variety Charity in an official capacity, so the information that we substituted is 100% accurate. We are however, new to Wikipedia, so we now understand the importance of doing many references, so we have started again and included loads of references. We have deleted, for now, everything that we have added without references, so we hope this is now ok? Please let us know if not, as we want to make the page as informative and as accurate as possible. Looking forward to your advice. Many thanks ----Rodeocowboy36 (talk) 21:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Royal Variety Performance

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm sorry that I had to drop it back to one of the earlier versions, but what you had been adding failed a large number of our guidelines. We have a WP:Manual of Style which articles are supposed to follow, and there were many, many breaches in your version. Perhaps if you spent your initial Wiki time making yourself familiar with those guidelines, you will find life to be much easier and more profitable. There is also the Teamroom (see the first thread on this page) which is a great place to ask others questions on how to approach things or what formatting to use in what circumstances. They are always delighted to be able to help. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 20:42, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia and copyright

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Giles Richard Cooper (April 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Still needs to focus with only the best available amount of additional in-depth third-party news sources overall, but not press releases and trivial passing mentions.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Copyright problem: Royal Variety Charity

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I have just flagged the same issue in Royal Variety Performance. Thanks, /wiae /tlk 13:58, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

== Hi I'm sorry for causing any confusion and for there being belief of a potential COI. There isn't. I am not employed by anyone and am not connected with or work for any employee of the Royal Variety Charity. I am simply a supporter of this charity - amongst many others. I would love to see this charity, including its senior management represented better on Wikipedia and also other charities and their management represented better. I have no other motive and I'm sorry for misleading anyone or betraying myself as anything different. I work alone, love Wiki and all it stands for and just want to learn the procedures better and create great content. Apologies again and really hope this is now all clear. Thank and please keep up your great work any connection ==

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Hi

I'm sorry for causing any confusion and for there being belief of a potential COI. There isn't. I am not employed by anyone and am not connected with or work for any employee of the Royal Variety Charity. I am simply a supporter of this charity - amongst many others. I would love to see this charity, including its senior management represented better on Wikipedia and also other charities and their management represented better. I have no other motive and I'm sorry for misleading anyone or betraying myself as anything different. I work alone, love Wiki and all it stands for and just want to learn the procedures better and create great content. Apologies again and really hope this is now all clear. Thank and please keep up your great work — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodeocowboy36 (talk • contribs) 05:45, 15 April 2016‎ (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, Rodeocowboy36, but I just can't see how to reconcile this denial with your earlier statement here (timestamped 06:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)) that "we work on the admin team for the royal variety charity and the royal variety performance and have done major overhauls of the wiki pages for both these". Who are "we"? Please understand that Wikipedia accounts are for individual, not shared, use. You say that you work on the admin team of the charity, and then the next day you tell us that you are "… not employed by anyone and [are] not connected with or work for any employee of the Royal Variety Charity". Forgive me, but I can't see any way in which both of those statements can be compatible. Would you be kind enough to tell us which is the truth? Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:08, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Giles Richard Cooper has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Giles Richard Cooper. Thanks! SwisterTwister talk 04:53, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Giles Richard Cooper (April 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Insertcleverphrasehere was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Giles Richard Cooper instead.

The comment the reviewer left was:

seems to have been already completed manually

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Giles Richard Cooper requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.royalvarietycharity.org/home/welcome/giles-cooper-biog/. 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 or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Giles Richard Cooper

A tag has been placed on Draft:Giles Richard Cooper requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

G13, Kind of. It hasn't been abandoned for 6 moths, but the article was previously moved to the article space via copy/paste and has been updated considerably there.

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