User talk:Informationguy

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Leszek Pekalski, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material.

This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/P/PEKALSKI_leszek.php. As a copyright violation, Leszek Pekalski appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Leszek Pekalski has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Leszek Pekalski. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Leszek Pekalski, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words.

Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Stifle 02:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am very new to editing Wikipedia but I have been a user of it's contents for a while.

I have a question about copyright, does copyright allow quotes????????

I don't understand. Thanks for help. Informationguy

Copyright

I am not a lawyer but copying and pasting large segments from websites is generally a copyright violation. Please see WP:COPY for Wikipedia's copyright rules. Stifle 03:04, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

--Ok--

Then how about brief summary, without copy and paste, if I do that, will you still delete?Informationguy

No, he/she won't, but you still have to say why the person is important, or it will get deleted. Hedley 03:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Julian Kotun

Hi, you seem to have made a typo in this page name, should be Koltun. I've requested a page move to reflect that. You might also want to check out the Manual of Style. - FrancisTyers 03:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Julian Koltun

Yes, the spelling Koltun, I was typing too fast. I will try to edit it, thanks for the help!

Btw, you are sure it's Koltun, not Kołtun?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 13:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Informationguy. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Julian Koltun, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. . Please note this applies to your other new articles as well - it would be great if you could take a minute and format them properly. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 13:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Julian Koltun

Source: http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/K/KOLTUN_julian.php

I added the source website and books where I acquired the information on my articles. I am new to editing Wikipedia, (but not to reading it) so the concept of wikified I don't really understand yet. But I have provided sources and links so you can confirm the information posted, and of course any help would be readily welcomed, thanks for your interest! Informationguy

Joseph Filikowski

Are you trying to get the Joseph Filikowski article deleted? If so, you need to follow the correct processes. There are two, and I am not sure which one applies in this situation, but before I point you to them I'm going to say that it looks like it has the potential to become a useful article (assuming it's not invented or anything like that), and you would make better use of your time by adding more information to it and improving the format and layout.

If you really want it deleted though, the two processes are Wikipedia:Speedy deletion and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. --LesleyW 12:49, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Filkowski

Because of a spelling correction, in which Joseph Filkowski was the proper spelling, I tried to delete the Filikowski page, and I added the Joseph Filkowski page, and the source for this article is * Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs by James Morton .

Okay, I get it now. The correct thing to do, when you realised you had made a typo, would have been a "move" to change the article's name, it's much easier than copying and pasting. This would have resulted in a redirect, which is what I've put at the typo page Joseph Filikowski, it will take you straight to the correct page. (If you're a very new user, you may not be able to do a "move" yet.) The next thing to do is to request a Speedy deletion. You could do that if you like, otherwise if the redirect is still there in a day or two I will do it for you. --LesleyW 22:11, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS: To get to the redirect page so that you can edit it, look at the top of the page where it says "redirected from..." and click the link. --LesleyW 22:16, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

List of Poles

Hi, I have seen you have contributed extensively to the List of Poles. One of the ediors, User:Antidote, keeps deleting several people from the list, like Fahrenheit, Goeppert and others and keeps changing the introduction against the consensus of other editors. Thus, it might be advisable for you to revert what User:Antidote has deleted before you adding something new to the list. For more information on the disruption that User:Antidote is causing to Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Antidote. Regards --Pecher 20:29, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I contributed with several Poles and several others of partial Polish ancestry or birth. I won't be able "revert what User:Antidote has deleted" because of several factors: I am not familiar with the ways of the monitoring of Wikipedia and a lack of time, I have some questions, with my conduct:

1. Is it against the rules or regulations to write about the full ancestry of individuals?

No. It's fine what you're doing by mentioning partial ancestries. The only thing is you put some false ancestries next to a lot of people, so just make sure to check what you put and everything will be great. You've progressed the list very far as of now. It was stagnant for a while. Antidote 06:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- Thanks. So, tell me where are the false ancestries and show me the sources as to their ancestries, and I'll show you my sources in the case of some people, or in the case of other people, which names sounded like certain ethnicities. 29 December 2005 Informationguy

- So, who has which ancestry? 29 December 2005 Informationguy

2. What is the consensus of other editors in the List of Poles?

Like I said above, the list is good off now. There's a section for Prussians and other border-shift-borns so it's all good. Antidote 06:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I would be happy to comply with any and all rules and regulations pertaining to my contributions. Thanks for your time! Informationguy

Thinking of Retiring

Feel free to edit or review my contributions. If my contributions are offensive or violate any rules, feel free to edit or delete them. It's too time consuming. Informationguy

Apparently you haven't retired ;) . Why would they be offensive? The only problem is, like I already said, some of the partial ancestries were guesswork. Otherwise, it's really good work. Thanks. Antidote 06:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I guess it should be rather thinking of retiring. 29 December 2005 Informationguy

Is there any response at all?

Why does no one answer my two questions?

No one answered your questions, because probably no one read them. User talk pages serve to place messages for you. Your questions should be posed on other talk pages. Alx-pl D 22:10, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

questions, questions

Have I been behaving in a disruptive way? I don't think I was, but if I was I will erase all my edits. I have just been reading the privacy policy on Wikipedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy after I decided to end giving additions and additional edits to Wikipedia. So, if I was disruptive, or any of those other things, I will erase my additions and edits.

I don't know any other user talk pages or village pumps? So, I'm asking my questions right here on User talk:Informationguy. Until I find the links to the other talk pages, on User talk:Informationguy.

I'm waiting for a real response as to if my contributions should be deleted.

Informationguy