User talk:PaulDelong

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Hello, PaulDelong, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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PaulDelong, good luck, and have fun. Aboutmovies (talk) 17:12, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Your sandbox

I have deleted your sandbox on grounds of copyright. You copy-pasted patent descriptions; to some of those you may own the copyright yoursef, to others you don't own the copyright. In both cases we'd need a confirmation by the copyright holder that they have released the content in question under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify the content for any purposes, including commercial purposes, a license compatible with Wikipedia's CC BY-SA 3.0 License. See WP:Donating copyrighted content and WP:Requesting copyright permission. We need such proof even when you personally own the copyright because from the outside there's no way to tell that you-the-copyright-holder and you-the-Wikipedia-editor are the same person - for all I know, some random person could have taken the username "PaulDelong" on Wikipedia and posted the content.

However, as Noyster said on your sanxbox' talk page, even if the copyright issue is resolved, a list of patent texts will not be acceptable as a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia articles need to be written by summarizing what reliable secondary sources have reported about a subject - and those patent texts aren't quite reliable by Wikipedia's standards, nor are they secondary sources. Those patent texts also do not give a good overview of steam explosion pulping - they were written for a different purpose, and merely joining them together will not give an encyclopedia article. Therefore I'd advise you not to bother with the bureaucratic effort of getting the license sorted out. Huon (talk) 02:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)