User talk:Petermkirby

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Hello, Petermkirby! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Kent Emmons[edit]

Please don't copy and paste material from other websites. Wikipedia cannot take copyrighted information. I have reverted your edits to Kent Emmons which you copied from http://www.kentemmons.com/meet-kent.html Woogee (talk) 23:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to Kent Emmons has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Woogee (talk) 07:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kent Emmons[edit]

Content in Wikipedia must generally be phrased in one's own words, with confirmation from secondary sources. The tone should also be neutral (see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view), which means no informal phrases such as "Not Just Another Hollywood Suit" or "He recently participated in a HUGE fundraiser..." — furthermore, terms like "recently" should be avoided since they're so vague. How recent is recently anyway? Other phrases, such as "a highly successful direct response television talk show that brings new and innovative products to the market." are promotional in tone. Wikipedia is not meant to promote, but rather to present things in a neutral fashion.

I reduced the article to a couple sentences because I had planned to go back and rebuild it with other sources. If you would like, I will see how much of the information I can re-add to the article. Kent Emmons' own website may be cited as a source within the text, as a means of verifying to the reader that the information is accurate. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 13:27, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Further, reading wp:COI might be good. Also, since the information is published on a copyrighted website, it is indeed copyrighted, and WP will not be able to use it. Ideally, WP articles are written by people who are simply interested in the subject, rather than closely associated with the subject.- Sinneed 17:32, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Submitting copyrighted material[edit]

Please see Wikipedia:CP#Copyright_owners_who_submitted_their_own_work_to_Wikipedia. Please note that you cannot submit copyrighted material for someone else, the copyright holder must do it themself. Woogee (talk) 18:50, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppetry case[edit]

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kaulshikha for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. - Sinneed 14:01, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Kent Emmons for deletion[edit]

The article Kent Emmons is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent Emmons until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 19:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]