User talk:Tara Emami

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Copyrighted text[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as A Math Trail at Mills College, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! Aaron 19:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I have got the document form the author,

The Trail has been created by "Ron Lancaster" who is a known Math teacher in Ontario Canada,

He has also created some other math trails in several cities world wide and I hope we can get all of them to Wiki.

He owns all the rights to this one and has agreed to put it in Wikkipedia (I have already sent him the GNU Free Documentation License).

Tara Emami 19:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tara. I'm going to ask some admins to come take a look at this. They'll probably want some sort of documentation from Mr. Lancaster agreeing to allow his work to be posted here (that's standard procedure for articles copied from other sites), but if you can provide it, then that should end the copyright issue. However, please understand that the copyright issue is separate from the original proposal to delete the article, on the grounds that it's "not what Wikipedia is about" (see WP:NOT for a detailed explanation about that). I didn't make the deletion proposal (I just voted on it), but my honest opinion is I don't think this article will survive the deletion vote unless you can somehow make the article more relevant to Wikipedia's purpose. I'll ask the admins to take a look at that issue as well and give you advice on how you might be able to make the necessary changes. In the meantime, I'll revert the page so at least it will be readable while all this is worked out. --Aaron 19:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, Tara. Thanks for joining Wikipedia! I took a look at your newly created article, and unfortunately it will probably be deleted through the AfD process on the grounds that it is unencyclopedic. This is one of the most common reasons for deletion. Don't take it personally! I hope you stick around. Cheers! --F a ng Aili 20:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]