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ANDROMITUS, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your great edit on Homesick for Another World and the creation of Labrador and wanted to let you know that your work is appreciated and that I hope you stick around. Please never hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. — Mainly 20:28, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
I removed my response because I am still getting acquainted with how the Talk pages work and thought maybe I was supposed to respond on your page. So thank you for still responding, haha. And I’m glad to hear that you are interested in 20/21st century literature. Creating and adding to book pages is going to be the majority of my contributions on here, I’d say. Wikipedia has been my favorite resource outside of professional reviews for discovering new authors to get into and it has always bugged me how many great authors don’t have individual pages for their work and how many pages don’t include referenced critical reviews. I have subscriptions to The New York Times and Washington Post, and constantly sleuth The Guardian, NPR, andThe Atlantic which don’t have paywalls yet. Paris Review and New York Review of Books have solid Daily sections. And I would definitely be interested in possibly collaborating on articles. Do you have any page projects you’re working on? As of now I’m just steadily adding book pages for authors I love and Critical Reception sections for all the book pages that neglect them. It’s been a solid way for me to get acquainted with editing. ANDROMITUS ( talk) 20:28, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the response, it was very informative. My one follow-up question is: are raking the concise summaries from publisher pages against the rules? I understand that taking the sort of back cover summaries that include descriptors like “powerful” and “spellbinding” are not good. But can summaries featured on publisher pages that concisely sum up the plot without editorializing be used? For my Samedi the Deafness page, I took the summary from Random House’s page, but included quotes and a source. When it comes to Wikipedia plot descriptions, I’ve always preferred synopses to detailed plot summaries, but of course I don’t want to run into copyright issues.
Your projects in progress sound fascinating. I’d love to help you get My Year of Rest and Relaxation to be a Good Article, Moshfegh is one of my favorite new(er) writers, I’ve read all of her work. What exactly is needed to an article to reach Good status? ANDROMITUS ( talk) 20:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello ANDROMITUS, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to
Hell (Davis novel) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the
public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a
suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see
Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid
copyright and
plagiarism issues.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 22:46, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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Diannaa 🍁 (
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Apologies. I misunderstood the original reason my previous summary was taken down, which I could explain but it isn’t necessary. I understand now, and it won’t happen again. Best, ANDROMITUS ( talk) 16:10, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for starting new articles about books. I noticed in several of them that when you mentioned newspapers and magazines, the titles were in plain text. Wikipedia style is to italicise these; you can find the details at MOS:TITLE. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 07:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
I have reverted your move of The Unnameable (novel). The move had not been discussed on the talk page and unnecessarily complicates the disambiguation. In use. If you want to start a discussion about why it should be moved, I’d be happy to contribute on the talk page. Fob.schools ( talk) 09:18, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
See you soon! All the best, -- Rosiestep ( talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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Hello, ANDROMITUS!
Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Theroadislong (
talk) 19:40, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
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ANDROMITUS, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your great edit on Homesick for Another World and the creation of Labrador and wanted to let you know that your work is appreciated and that I hope you stick around. Please never hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. — Mainly 20:28, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
I removed my response because I am still getting acquainted with how the Talk pages work and thought maybe I was supposed to respond on your page. So thank you for still responding, haha. And I’m glad to hear that you are interested in 20/21st century literature. Creating and adding to book pages is going to be the majority of my contributions on here, I’d say. Wikipedia has been my favorite resource outside of professional reviews for discovering new authors to get into and it has always bugged me how many great authors don’t have individual pages for their work and how many pages don’t include referenced critical reviews. I have subscriptions to The New York Times and Washington Post, and constantly sleuth The Guardian, NPR, andThe Atlantic which don’t have paywalls yet. Paris Review and New York Review of Books have solid Daily sections. And I would definitely be interested in possibly collaborating on articles. Do you have any page projects you’re working on? As of now I’m just steadily adding book pages for authors I love and Critical Reception sections for all the book pages that neglect them. It’s been a solid way for me to get acquainted with editing. ANDROMITUS ( talk) 20:28, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the response, it was very informative. My one follow-up question is: are raking the concise summaries from publisher pages against the rules? I understand that taking the sort of back cover summaries that include descriptors like “powerful” and “spellbinding” are not good. But can summaries featured on publisher pages that concisely sum up the plot without editorializing be used? For my Samedi the Deafness page, I took the summary from Random House’s page, but included quotes and a source. When it comes to Wikipedia plot descriptions, I’ve always preferred synopses to detailed plot summaries, but of course I don’t want to run into copyright issues.
Your projects in progress sound fascinating. I’d love to help you get My Year of Rest and Relaxation to be a Good Article, Moshfegh is one of my favorite new(er) writers, I’ve read all of her work. What exactly is needed to an article to reach Good status? ANDROMITUS ( talk) 20:25, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello ANDROMITUS, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to
Hell (Davis novel) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the
public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a
suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see
Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid
copyright and
plagiarism issues.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 22:46, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi ANDROMITUS! You created a thread called Archival by
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Plot descriptiopns you included in
The Memory Police (novel) and multiple other articles have been removed in whole or in part, as it appears you added
copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of
permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read
Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be
blocked from editing. See
Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Plot descriptions cannot be copied from other sources, including official sources, unless these can be verified to be public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia. They must be written in original language to comply with Wikipedia's
copyright policy. —
Diannaa 🍁 (
talk) 12:02, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Apologies. I misunderstood the original reason my previous summary was taken down, which I could explain but it isn’t necessary. I understand now, and it won’t happen again. Best, ANDROMITUS ( talk) 16:10, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for starting new articles about books. I noticed in several of them that when you mentioned newspapers and magazines, the titles were in plain text. Wikipedia style is to italicise these; you can find the details at MOS:TITLE. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea ( talk) 07:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
I have reverted your move of The Unnameable (novel). The move had not been discussed on the talk page and unnecessarily complicates the disambiguation. In use. If you want to start a discussion about why it should be moved, I’d be happy to contribute on the talk page. Fob.schools ( talk) 09:18, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
See you soon! All the best, -- Rosiestep ( talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Hi!
Wikimania is happening and hopefully you're enjoying the sessions. While it's fairly last minute, you're warmly invited to participate in the local Wikimania-themed meetup in the Wikimedia Foundation office this Friday (tomorrow!). You will have to register in advance, but we would love to see more people from the WikiSalon community participate! For more information and registration, please check out meta:Wikimania 2022/San Francisco Meetup.
The event will involve hacking, teaching, learning, and celebrating and we'll have snacks. We will have the opportunity to watch live sessions at Wikimania together in the afternoon. The rest of the day we'll have opportunity to participate in the hackathon, and we may have some on-demand workshops/learning sessions.
In case we run out of space, it's first-come-first-serve so let us know soon! Hope to see you there.
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