User talk:Uja

Welcome!

Hello, Uja, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 10:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Yarkon river[edit]

Nobody said that it was not useful information. It was simply a mess of unwikified and unformatted text. Moreover, it was likely copied directly from another source, because a user who wrote such an encompassing and thought-out original article would at least put in the effort to format it properly or ask another user how to do so. The information that I removed has not been lost - you can access it through the edit history. As I said in the edit summary, I may try to incorporate all that information into the main article, although it needs to be checked where the user took the information from.

Also, please sign your comments with 4 tildes (~~~~).

-- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 10:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Uja. If it was your information that I deleted, please don't take offense. It was problematic in the following ways:

1. It was an unwikified mess, using no Wiki formatting (links, paragraphs, etc.). Read more on wikification and formatting at WP:HOW.

2. It was not properly placed - you added the info below the main article, which already contained some basic information. This basically means you duplicated a valid article and created 2 articles in 1 - one followed by the other. This is wrong and there should be only 1 article for each entry. Again, read WP:HOW for help.

3. You did not cite any sources for the information even though it looks like it was taken from somewhere else. If you copied the text from another location, this is not allowed in Wikipedia, although you can use the content of the original to write your Wikipedia article. If you do this, make sure to cite sources. Read more on WP:CITE. However, if you already wrote the information yourself, putting the effort to format and wikify it will help alleviate accusations of copyright infringement.

I hope this explanation helped. Please sign your comments with 4 tildes (~~~~) on talk pages, and add your comments to the bottom of the discussion, not to the top.

-- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 13:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]