User talk:Faburden

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Hello Faburden, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Draft:Thaxted Parish Church 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.

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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) 12:13, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wihtgar Ælfricsson, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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DGG ( talk ) 23:46, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa: The 'Bell' section includes text which could well be challenged as promotional, editorializing and timetabling, such as "The bells are a little difficult for the ringers to hear, but a sound system is in place. Today the bells are rung on most Sundays ahead of the 10 o'clock service, for weddings and for visiting ringers with the regular practice nights every Tuesday." However, worse than this, text in this section copies, or is at least a paraphrase of, the source offered, which is considered copyright infringement... we can't just shift around the odd word and sentence here and there and hope to get away with it. Other editors will eventually check all the sources to see if such further problems exist. Please heed the words of Diannaa here.

I have added a feet-to-metre distance template to your substantial draft, helpful internationally and something that Wikipedia prefers. You can use the template for your other feet → metre conversions.

I notice you have text embedded web links including 'Friends of Thaxted Church' and 'Lincoln Organ'; this is deprecated in Wikipedia; you could keep the text but add links, if relevant to the article, to a new 'External links' section below references, where you could also add others such as the diocese' and the church's web sites. You might add a further reading/bibliography section where you can related books, such as Jenkins and Pevsner.

You have bolded certain words, also deprecated unless as sub-section headers; if you believe these elements are important enough to stress, you could red-link them for a proposed article, but only if substantial information can be found to support a new article. This bolding also includes the deprecated use of capital letters in common words, such as South Aisle, Chancel and Nave; these should be de-capped. Those elements that are specific and are known-as such, can be left, such as ' Lincoln Organ' and 'Conrad Noel Memorial Organ'.

You have enlarged the pictures from the Wikipedia accepted standard thumbnail size. Please replace e.g. 367x367px with thumbnail unresized. The gallery of 24 files you provide appears too large. We can put a 'Commons category' link under 'External links' for that. A few pictures, that might overwhelm the text if added there, but are descriptive of elements in the text, might be added to a gallery. Please see WP:NOTGALLERY.

Thanks for starting this article. Acabashi (talk) 11:39, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thaxted Parish Church, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 21% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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KylieTastic (talk) 12:11, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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