User talk:Sfsorrow2

Extensive copyright violation and plagiarism

I'm probably the first administrator to have cause to look at your contributions history in depth. It turns out that you've been copying and pasting other people's work into Wikipedia since 2007. Frick & Co., D. June & Co., and A.D. Baker Company were all somebody else's writing that you just stole wholesale. Wood, Taber & Morse Co. was mostly somebody else's writing. You've been copying and pasting content from the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia into various places. Your user page and user talk page were full of extensive copies and pastes of books and other things, as are the talk pages of several of your articles.

And where you haven't been outright violating copyright, you've been plagiarising old out of copyright books. I see from your talk page that you've been asked for sources several times, and at least once it turned out that you just took prose right out of a book lock, stock, and barrel. Several of your now-blanked-and-redirected articles , such as Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke and Constantinople-Baghdad Railway to pick but two, are highly suspect.

Even Nichols and Shepard wasn't your own writing, but an incorrectly attributed copy and paste of part of another Wikipedia article.

I've therefore revoked your editing privileges. Uncle G (talk) 12:08, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Admiralty tug

The article Admiralty tug has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced and the article fails to justify its main premise, that there was a form of ship that could be recognised as an "Admiralty tug". There was an admiralty, they had tugs, we could even write a WP:NOTDIR list article "List of tugs owned by the Admiralty". However there seems to be no evidence or justification to claim that they form a group that's distinguishable from any other tugs.

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Nomination of Admiralty tug for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Admiralty tug is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Nomination of Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Lonsdale Tunnel

The article Lonsdale Tunnel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Completely unsourced, unlikely to be notable on its own.

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Speedy deletion of Steamboats in Canada

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The page Steamboats in Canada has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appeared to be a direct copy from listed at WP:CP for over seven days, no viable rewrite proposed; presumptive deletion, Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Sfsorrow2. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been 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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