User talk:Semocrat08

I really appreciate your articles on southeast Missouri. I haven't lived there in many years but I know all the small towns you write about. Thanks! Merenta (talk) 14:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images from websites

Hi Semocrat08, Please stop uploading images from websites and claiming that they are yours to release as public domain. You need to correctly source and licence the images. Drop me a note if you are unclear as to how to do this - Peripitus (Talk) 12:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. JNW (talk) 06:11, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please contribute by rewriting the information in your own words. JNW (talk) 12:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting for election pages

Please stop replacing the words "Democrat" and "Republican" with "(D)" and "(R)". It's a bit more neat to just keep the full names of the parties, plus more consistent with the style that is usually on the page. CylonCAG (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arizona's 1st district presidential results

Hey. I saw that you added some figures for the district's 2008 presidential vote to the article Arizona's 1st congressional district. I'm working on the article United States presidential election in Arizona, 2008 at the moment, and currently all I have to go on for results by congressional district is this, which firstly is only loosely a reliable source, and secondly only offers the percentages rounded to the nearest percentage point. The figures you added seem to be of a greater precision, so I'd be very grateful if you could inform me of your source. Thanks — Hysteria18 (Talk • Contributions) 18:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marquand, Missouri

I removed the history section from this article that you added. It was largely a copy of this material which does not appear to be in the public domain — it's too recent to be PD based just on age. I see you've already received other copyright violation notices, so I won't belabor the point. It's a very good local history, and it would aid the article if you could pull the salient facts and write the section in a non-infringing manner. Thanks. --Kbh3^rd talk 04:35, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Section headings

You've made many edits that convert section headings from sentence case to title case. Wikipedia uses sentence case. See WP:HEAD: "Capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest in lower case." I realize that most publications use title case, but we have a Manual of Style to ensure consistency within Wikipedia, so that's what we follow. JamesMLane t c 14:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2008 Election

Hey. I need a third party opinion on the article regarding the presidential election in California. Please go on the talk page on the last section and share your opinion. Thanks.--Jerzeykydd (talk) 13:08, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

November 2009

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, you will be blocked from editing. A8 UDI 01:26, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to St. Charles County, Missouri has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Grey Wanderer (talk) 18:49, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ozark County, Missouri history

Last Feb. 15 you added some 30+ kb of info to the History section of Ozark County, Missouri. Unfortunately you failed to provide a source or sources for your additions. As the material appears to basically be copied from some source and includes some direct quotes, there is a question about its copyright status. Could you please provide sources for that material and clarify the copyright status? If it cannot be verified, it will be removed. Thank you, Vsmith (talk) 01:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the history section as a WP:COPYVIO. It can be replaced if sources are provided to clarify its copyright status. Vsmith (talk) 02:09, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Semocrat08! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 714 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Shelley Keeney - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:PurpleNation.PNG

Where did you get the data to create this image? Cheers, - Chardish (talk) 23:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2010

Your recent edit to the page Wisconsin's 8th congressional district appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. Baron Larf 11:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adair County, Missouri

With all due respect, if you don't know what the hell you're talking about kindly leave the wiki page for Adair County alone. I live here. I KNOW the area. You removed La Plata R-2 from public schools serving Adair County w/o any justification. Though physically in Macon County, their district boundaries also include parts of southern Adair. Your political additions also had a subjective tone that violates Wiki POV standards. You're in southeast Missouri? Fine, concentrate on that area. I see from the discussions above I'm not the only one that has a problem with you screwing around with things. I only hope the Wiki editors will take action against you soon to put a stop to it. Sector001 (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

broken template

As seen at the bottom of this section, the templates you recently added do not exist or are somehow broken. Please fix this as soon as possible. Thanks, Spalds (talk) 23:32, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

August 2011

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Bollinger County, Missouri, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. You have a long history of making disruptive edits as evidenced by your talk page, placing wildly inaccurate, unsourced information into articles (e.g. stating[1] that Tampa is in Pinellas County in Florida's 10th congressional district), and deleting large amounts of content without justification (e.g. Bollinger and Butler Counties in Missouri).--Hokeman (talk) 15:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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