User talk:Nossac
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Hello, please write something! I expect I'm making mistakes, and tagging things wrong etc, so I would welcome feedback to help me learn the myriad of wikipedia systems...
[edit] Self Promotion copyright vios?
In working on WP:WWF I have come across two articles so far that have celarly been copy and pasted from an organisation's website:
- Fresh Expressions
- Office of AIDS Research
In both cases, it is possible that person who put it there was self promoting the organsiation, in which case they may be happy for their content to be replicated on wikipedia. (the fact that the content is of the wrong tone is a sepaarte issue) I have posted {{copyvio}} on their talk pages. Is this the right way to deal with this? Also, how do you make a template such as the {{copyvio}} one fill in the blanks?
- If you detect content that was copied from another website, you may insert this template on the article: {{copyvio|url=http://example.org}}. I hope this helps. Regards.--Húsönd 23:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New Idea
Once you scratch beneath the surface, the Wikpeidia editing world is prety complex and hard to find your way into - so many directives, guidelines, templates (particulary bad - how will you ever know that the one you need exists?), requests, protects, portals, arbitrations, etc etc it can be quite bewildering... I am thinking about proposing a new project: Simplify wikipidia editing by or cut down on the number of projects and consolidating. Another Portal is probably not the answer to this. If only I knew where to put it, or exactly how to pin the probems down...
Does anyone agree this is a problem? Once you lose that new user status is can probably be harder to see. Or does such a cleanup initaive already exist?
- That's not really the type of question for the {{helpme}} system, you might like to visit the village pump and start a discussion there. --pgk 18:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
