User talk:Gareth8118

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Help with editing, please[edit]

Just getting to grips with wikipedia having only signed up yesterday but the reason I signed up was to tag an article I wasn't happy about. The article is Derrick May (musician) and I have two issues:

First problem is that I tagged the page with a wikify template, which was reverted without explanation - how should I react?

Second issue is that a huge chunk of this article has been copied out of the subject's myspace page (see talk:Derrick May (musician) for URL). Given my limited editing experience, am I justified in tagging as copyvio?

I've put something into the talk page for the article for now.

Cheers Gareth — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gareth8118 (talk • contribs)

Hi Gareth,

The article definitely needs wikification, but in cases such as this, it would be best to assume that the edit was done in good faith, and try to get an explanation from the user that removed the {{wikify}} template as to why this was done without further explanation. You can do so by either posting a message on the article's talk page, or on the specific user's talk page. Many times, there will be a good reason for the change, and discussing first instead of simply reverting his changes again, can prevent an edit war.

In this case, however, when looking at the article's history page, you'll see that the edit summary provided for the last edit performed by User:Bohanyon was: wikificational cleanup underway. I would not agree with his/her decision to remove the template straight away, but would rather have kept the template shown on the page until the article has been completely wikified. In any case, at least now you know the reason.

As for your second question, ~~yes, you should tag the article with {{copyvio}}, again providing as much explanation for this as possible on the article's talk page.~~ I'm making a correction here. After reading through Wikipedia:Copyrights#If you find a copyright infringement, I believe it would be better to simply remove the text that has been copy/pasted from MySpace, and leave a note on the article's talk page, which I see you've already done, and using a relevant edit summary. Looks like an article should only be tagged with {{copyvio}} when all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement.

Hope this helps! —Xhantar^Talk 14:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks, Xhantar. I don't have time right now to make the edit but I've left a note on his talk page drawing his attention to it, if it's still in violation tonight when I get home I'll make the edits myself.

Thanks again for the assistance.

--Gareth8118 14:51, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PHYS[edit]

Hi, I noticed that you had some interest in physics. Might I interested you in joining WikiProject Physics?Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 06:16, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland[edit]

I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland#Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:35, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]