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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HVBV_1977_pix.jpg
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HVBV_1977_pix_sm.jpg
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HVBV 1977 pix.jpg
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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 13:35, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HVBV 1977 pix sm.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:HVBV 1977 pix sm.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:HVBV_1977_pix_sm.jpg)
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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:HVBV 1977 pix.jpg)
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[edit] Voorhis
The problem is not your references; it's more that you, as a new user, aren't familiar with how WP works. Fundamentally speaking, this is an encyclopedia; this means that there are rules on sources, citations, and all sort of other policies and guidelines as to what is appropriate and what is not in an article.
Getting down to the article proper, I didn't remove any references, because there weren't any. Those references you added were not in the original article. Your listing of his works you claimed was incomplete; therefore what is there is a selection. Again, this is an encyclopedia - it's not meant to be an exhaustive resource. Books are generally more important than magazine articles, and some books in particular are more important than others.
We don't do "citations as author" so I'm probably going to remove that again. We usually use inline references, meaning that you need to cite whatever is in the article with at least a title and a page number or web address (see the cite link I gave you), and in the correct format.
All of the articles you wrote suffer from "information dump," meaning that that is what you did - you literally threw everything into the article you could find without consideration for importance or anything else. Voorhis' Masonic affiliations are unimportant, because they don't make him notable (see the link for more info), and are more precisely trivia, which we discourage. As you probably know, some Masons just about collect affiliations, especially if they are well-known. We also don't need to know every job Voorhis had ever had (especially since some overlapped, which is simply confusing). A listing of his hobbies and the 14 ham radio clubs he was in is also not terribly important.
There are fundamentals of Wikipedia you need to know, so I am also adding in our standard welcome message, which has links to things you should read as a new user. MSJapan (talk) 19:33, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
Hello, Dalcrow, 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:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
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- How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! MSJapan (talk) 19:33, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
