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Hello David-waterways, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Canal de Bourbourg have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
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I also removed copyright violations from Canal de Roubaix, Sarthe (river), and Canal de Calais. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 14:45, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
This is a test, as I haven't yet started 'talking'. In response to these alerts, I have sent an e-mail to permissions-en@wikipedia.org. David-waterways ( talk) 19:17, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
The potential conflict of interest here is more than compensated by 50 years of voluntary activity in favour of inland waterways, as a member of the Inland Waterways Association (UK), then founding member (1994), vice-president (1998) and now (since October 2016) president of Inland Waterways International. There is no self-promotion here, just pointing to what is available, and all texts are in the neutral style that is required of an encyclopedic source of information. David-waterways ( talk) 19:23, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Please could I have an update on the process of getting the release on the material on the waterways where texts have been deleted? I understand the importance of being selective and rewording, even when quoting from my own source, but for planning it would be great to know when the release might be granted. Since your blocks I've been sourcing from the telegraphic texts of Charles Berg as a workaround, linking to his Dictionnaire. But it's not very satisfactory, because it's very telegraphic, and the writing is mine. Bonne soirée David-waterways ( talk) 19:57, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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As you have gathered, I'm new to this game, and it's not even easy to see how to talk! But this should now reach you, I hope. I think I've understood the inbox Canal, and it's a very useful piece of code developed, I gather, by the UK waterways group. In source mode, I'm copying and pasting, and then entering the available data. However, some pages have a river template where perhaps the canal template would be better suited. I've had another alert on inadequately referenced text for the canal from Nieuwpoort to Dunkirk. I will revisit that now. Thanks again. Best, David Article declined OK, I understand this was misuse of the Sandbox. David-waterways ( talk) 14:07, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi David-waterways, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent changes to Nieuwpoort-Dunkirk Canal. There seems to be a lot of new, good information there, as well as some corrections, and a couple of references, so thanks for that. On the other hand, a lot of it is unreferenced, and it needs to be. I was going to just revert the whole thing due to the unreferenced parts, but wanted to give you a chance to fix it up first by adding sources.
As a friendly tip going forward: it's sometimes a good idea to break up a large-ish edit like this one that ranges over different parts of the article into multiple, smaller edits. That way if you missed a reference in one part, or if an editor has some issue with a portion of the change, at least the entire thing won't be reverted. This might even be your best approach here: a self-revert, followed by adding your change back in again piecemeal, with references, but I'll leave the decision about how to best approach this to you. Thanks again for your contributions, Mathglot ( talk) 18:23, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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talk) 20:31, 21 July 2017 (UTC)Hi, please advise if you think more fiddling is needed; and could you possibly help me with an automatic redirect that prevents me from editing a new article that's needed? I renamed Canal de l'Est as Canal de la Meuse, because the historic name is no longer used; it's now two separate canals, but the second, Canal des Vosges, redirects to Canal de l'Est (of which it is a part, so I cannot edit and transfer the relevant contents to the Canal des Vosges page. This should be a relatively quick fix, but I have no idea where to go! Thanks. Cheers Forgot to sign, sorry! David-waterways ( talk) 18:37, 24 July 2017 (UTC) @ Mathglot: Gbawden ( talk) 13:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
I've solicited a couple of you out there, but it's better if I flag it up here. I'd be very grateful for a hand with an unfortunate redirection that currently blocks me from filling a new page for Canal des Vosges. Entering that automatically directs to the page Canal de l'Est that I have now moved to Canal de la Meuse. So instead of getting an empty article that I can then fill, I'm sent back to what is now Canal de la Meuse. It should be a quick fix, but I haven't a clue how to proceed. Earlier versions of the page are not helping either. Many thanks, whoever could help me with this. Also, I've been able to rename at least two articles, where required by context, but not others, and I don't understand why. The process for releasing a filed name change would also be most helpful. Example is Canal de la Marne au Rhin, requested name as per practice for other French canals, instead of Marne--Rhine Canal with the ugly (Word-imposed) long dash. Thanks David-waterways ( talk) 20:12, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Explain to me what the difference between these is, and how they are not WP:content forks. I don't understand where you're going with this. wbm1058 ( talk) 23:18, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm sorry to have (possibly) confused you by posting on your talk page instead of mine! I publicly thanked you for your recent edit, without actually seeing what you did on the page, after the intervention of original compiler Auric. To answer your question, my point was that English use favours the name Lys, which happens to be also the French. We do, after all, refer to fleur de lys. So for a river which flows for half its course in France, it makes sense to have River Lys as the title of the article instead of the Dutch Leie. My Flemish colleagues would fully accept this logic. So the English article should be named River Lys or Lys (river), in my view. David-waterways ( talk) 08:39, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
So much to learn! Many thanks. Never thought of 'talking' on the page itself; makes sense, and will do David-waterways ( talk) 13:42, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I didn't see a button, but I contested the speedy deletion on the (now empty) page. I've just read the last part, and will go down that road to try to retrieve the entry, complete with its info box. This is most emphatically not advertising, but presenting an activity in a unique craft of heritage value, an integral part of the landscape of French waterways in particular. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide in unlocking this one (and Johanna) David-waterways ( talk) 17:58, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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See edit under Finesse (barge) above. Not advertising, information sourced from web sites and written by me in my own style. Level playing field is aimed at, where each hotel barge is described and referenced, and seen by readers to be one of a family of heritage vessels operated on European waterways (and mainly in France). David-waterways ( talk) 18:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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Joined as invited. I feel something needs to be done for clarity, in relation to inland vessels.
On the recommendation of experienced authors/editors, I have placed an article about the hotel barge Aslaug as a draft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aslaug_(barge). I'd be grateful for any thoughts or contributions before attempting lift-off into outer Mainspace. To be clear, I am not representing any barge or operator, but providing information about the sector of hotel barges, a small but significant element in France's tourism industry. These craft are an integral part of the economy and landscape of French waterways, and are of interest to the general public as such. In the logic of WikiProject Ships, the barges I am adding are as notable and worthy of interest as the 8-10 barges that are already covered on Wikipedia. Thank you in advance!
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A tag has been placed on Finesse (barge), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Thanks to The Bushranger for the link from Aslaug to Aslaug (barge). Just a little uncomfortable with the use of the word ship. 'For the ship, see Aslaug (barge)' is confusing in both American and British English, where inland craft are never referred to as ships (unlike German, for example). Hence my suggestion about separating inland craft and ships in Wikipedia ship lists. Feel free to ignore this rant, but it would be more correct to write 'For the hotel barge, see Aslaug (barge).' Just a suggestion! Best regards David-waterways ( talk) 08:17, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, you need to ask the deleting admin Boing! said Zebedee ( talk · contribs) for the restoration of the barge articles but he may refuse. The sales links made them look like advertisements so should be avoided, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 19:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, this article is too promotional so if you can make it less like an advert that will help its long term future , thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 16:36, 27 November 2017 (UTC) Thank you, I will edit as suggested. Regards David-waterways ( talk) 19:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
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Deletion nomination removed after edits to improve notability (citing Voies Navigables de France) and sources enabling verification. Further improvement to be effected, e.g. to link to the downloadable VNF report on hotel barges (only cited as article stands at present). Two external links added, also contributing to notability and enabling verification. Thank you for your attention David-waterways ( talk) 14:33, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hello David-waterways, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Canal de Bourbourg have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
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) 14:34, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
I also removed copyright violations from Canal de Roubaix, Sarthe (river), and Canal de Calais. — Diannaa 🍁 ( talk) 14:45, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
This is a test, as I haven't yet started 'talking'. In response to these alerts, I have sent an e-mail to permissions-en@wikipedia.org. David-waterways ( talk) 19:17, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
The potential conflict of interest here is more than compensated by 50 years of voluntary activity in favour of inland waterways, as a member of the Inland Waterways Association (UK), then founding member (1994), vice-president (1998) and now (since October 2016) president of Inland Waterways International. There is no self-promotion here, just pointing to what is available, and all texts are in the neutral style that is required of an encyclopedic source of information. David-waterways ( talk) 19:23, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Please could I have an update on the process of getting the release on the material on the waterways where texts have been deleted? I understand the importance of being selective and rewording, even when quoting from my own source, but for planning it would be great to know when the release might be granted. Since your blocks I've been sourcing from the telegraphic texts of Charles Berg as a workaround, linking to his Dictionnaire. But it's not very satisfactory, because it's very telegraphic, and the writing is mine. Bonne soirée David-waterways ( talk) 19:57, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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As you have gathered, I'm new to this game, and it's not even easy to see how to talk! But this should now reach you, I hope. I think I've understood the inbox Canal, and it's a very useful piece of code developed, I gather, by the UK waterways group. In source mode, I'm copying and pasting, and then entering the available data. However, some pages have a river template where perhaps the canal template would be better suited. I've had another alert on inadequately referenced text for the canal from Nieuwpoort to Dunkirk. I will revisit that now. Thanks again. Best, David Article declined OK, I understand this was misuse of the Sandbox. David-waterways ( talk) 14:07, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi David-waterways, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent changes to Nieuwpoort-Dunkirk Canal. There seems to be a lot of new, good information there, as well as some corrections, and a couple of references, so thanks for that. On the other hand, a lot of it is unreferenced, and it needs to be. I was going to just revert the whole thing due to the unreferenced parts, but wanted to give you a chance to fix it up first by adding sources.
As a friendly tip going forward: it's sometimes a good idea to break up a large-ish edit like this one that ranges over different parts of the article into multiple, smaller edits. That way if you missed a reference in one part, or if an editor has some issue with a portion of the change, at least the entire thing won't be reverted. This might even be your best approach here: a self-revert, followed by adding your change back in again piecemeal, with references, but I'll leave the decision about how to best approach this to you. Thanks again for your contributions, Mathglot ( talk) 18:23, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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talk) 20:31, 21 July 2017 (UTC)Hi, please advise if you think more fiddling is needed; and could you possibly help me with an automatic redirect that prevents me from editing a new article that's needed? I renamed Canal de l'Est as Canal de la Meuse, because the historic name is no longer used; it's now two separate canals, but the second, Canal des Vosges, redirects to Canal de l'Est (of which it is a part, so I cannot edit and transfer the relevant contents to the Canal des Vosges page. This should be a relatively quick fix, but I have no idea where to go! Thanks. Cheers Forgot to sign, sorry! David-waterways ( talk) 18:37, 24 July 2017 (UTC) @ Mathglot: Gbawden ( talk) 13:39, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
I've solicited a couple of you out there, but it's better if I flag it up here. I'd be very grateful for a hand with an unfortunate redirection that currently blocks me from filling a new page for Canal des Vosges. Entering that automatically directs to the page Canal de l'Est that I have now moved to Canal de la Meuse. So instead of getting an empty article that I can then fill, I'm sent back to what is now Canal de la Meuse. It should be a quick fix, but I haven't a clue how to proceed. Earlier versions of the page are not helping either. Many thanks, whoever could help me with this. Also, I've been able to rename at least two articles, where required by context, but not others, and I don't understand why. The process for releasing a filed name change would also be most helpful. Example is Canal de la Marne au Rhin, requested name as per practice for other French canals, instead of Marne--Rhine Canal with the ugly (Word-imposed) long dash. Thanks David-waterways ( talk) 20:12, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Explain to me what the difference between these is, and how they are not WP:content forks. I don't understand where you're going with this. wbm1058 ( talk) 23:18, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm sorry to have (possibly) confused you by posting on your talk page instead of mine! I publicly thanked you for your recent edit, without actually seeing what you did on the page, after the intervention of original compiler Auric. To answer your question, my point was that English use favours the name Lys, which happens to be also the French. We do, after all, refer to fleur de lys. So for a river which flows for half its course in France, it makes sense to have River Lys as the title of the article instead of the Dutch Leie. My Flemish colleagues would fully accept this logic. So the English article should be named River Lys or Lys (river), in my view. David-waterways ( talk) 08:39, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
So much to learn! Many thanks. Never thought of 'talking' on the page itself; makes sense, and will do David-waterways ( talk) 13:42, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I didn't see a button, but I contested the speedy deletion on the (now empty) page. I've just read the last part, and will go down that road to try to retrieve the entry, complete with its info box. This is most emphatically not advertising, but presenting an activity in a unique craft of heritage value, an integral part of the landscape of French waterways in particular. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide in unlocking this one (and Johanna) David-waterways ( talk) 17:58, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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See edit under Finesse (barge) above. Not advertising, information sourced from web sites and written by me in my own style. Level playing field is aimed at, where each hotel barge is described and referenced, and seen by readers to be one of a family of heritage vessels operated on European waterways (and mainly in France). David-waterways ( talk) 18:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
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Joined as invited. I feel something needs to be done for clarity, in relation to inland vessels.
On the recommendation of experienced authors/editors, I have placed an article about the hotel barge Aslaug as a draft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aslaug_(barge). I'd be grateful for any thoughts or contributions before attempting lift-off into outer Mainspace. To be clear, I am not representing any barge or operator, but providing information about the sector of hotel barges, a small but significant element in France's tourism industry. These craft are an integral part of the economy and landscape of French waterways, and are of interest to the general public as such. In the logic of WikiProject Ships, the barges I am adding are as notable and worthy of interest as the 8-10 barges that are already covered on Wikipedia. Thank you in advance!
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A tag has been placed on Finesse (barge), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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Thanks to The Bushranger for the link from Aslaug to Aslaug (barge). Just a little uncomfortable with the use of the word ship. 'For the ship, see Aslaug (barge)' is confusing in both American and British English, where inland craft are never referred to as ships (unlike German, for example). Hence my suggestion about separating inland craft and ships in Wikipedia ship lists. Feel free to ignore this rant, but it would be more correct to write 'For the hotel barge, see Aslaug (barge).' Just a suggestion! Best regards David-waterways ( talk) 08:17, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, you need to ask the deleting admin Boing! said Zebedee ( talk · contribs) for the restoration of the barge articles but he may refuse. The sales links made them look like advertisements so should be avoided, thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 19:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi, this article is too promotional so if you can make it less like an advert that will help its long term future , thanks Atlantic306 ( talk) 16:36, 27 November 2017 (UTC) Thank you, I will edit as suggested. Regards David-waterways ( talk) 19:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
The article Le Phénicien (barge) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Deletion nomination removed after edits to improve notability (citing Voies Navigables de France) and sources enabling verification. Further improvement to be effected, e.g. to link to the downloadable VNF report on hotel barges (only cited as article stands at present). Two external links added, also contributing to notability and enabling verification. Thank you for your attention David-waterways ( talk) 14:33, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Le Phénicien (barge). I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:
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