User talk:Bellaopera

Auguat 2013[edit]

Your addition to W. Claude Jones| has been removed or altered, as it appears to closely paraphrase the journal article [Finch, L. Boyd (Winter 1990). "William Claude Jones: The Charming Rogue Who Named Arizona". The Journal of Arizona History (Arizona Historical Society) 31 (4): 405–24. JSTOR 41695845.], a copyrighted source (specifically text from pages 410 and 411). Limited close paraphrasing or quotation is appropriate within reason, so long as the material is clearly attributed in the text. However, longer paraphrases which are not attributed to their source may constitute copyright violation or plagiarism, and are not acceptable on Wikipedia. Such content cannot be hosted here for legal reasons; please do not upload it. You may use external websites or printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or large sentence fragments. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. It should also be noted that the events dealt with in the text you added are already in the article, just placed in the section that deals with the chronological period when Jones and Poston first met instead of the later time period when Jones moved to Arizona Territory. --Allen3 ^talk 23:34, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: William Claude Jones[edit]

Hello,

The biography you wrote still exists at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/William Claude Jones. The current W. Claude Jones article was created independently using the sources listed at the bottom of the article.

Your family's photos would be a welcome addition to the article. I know that drawings and photographs exist (the Finch article from Journal of Arizona History contains drawings of William Claude and MaeMae Kailihao Jones along with a photograph of Caroline Stephens Jones with her second husband) but have not attempted to upload them due to copyright restrictions. If your family is willing to donate scanned copies of your images, they would make a wonderful addition to the article. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for a description of the donation process.

As for your desire to include information about William Claude naming Arizona and being involved with the Gadsden Purchase, Wikipedia has policies requiring verifiability of all added material (in its role as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia summarizes existing published sources and does not publish new information). I searched for a previously published source stating that William Claude was the source for the name Arizona, but the best I could find is a quote by Poston that he first heard the name from William Claude. As for the Gadsden Purchase, I have strengthened the wording in the article about his support for the purchase. --Allen3 ^talk 00:52, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted your draft page for you (it requires administrator rights to perform deletions). The majority of the information I have on William Claude, including Maemae's name, comes from:

Finch, L. Boyd (1990). "William Claude Jones: The Charming Rogue Who Named Arizona". The Journal of Arizona History. 31 (4). Arizona Historical Society: 405–24. JSTOR 41695845. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

You should be able to access a copy of the article if you register with JSTOR (follow the link at the end of the citation for a preview of the first page). Your local library may also have access to JSTOR (that is how I obtained my copy of the article). Another interesting place to search is the Library of Congress' newspaper archives. The archives have a variety of articles dealing with William Claude starting with his time in Missouri and going up to his obituaries in the Hawaiian press. --Allen3 ^talk 01:57, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The source of all information used in the W. Claude Jones article is provided by the source citations contained in the article. I take great care to ensure any information I add to an article is properly cited. Just follow the link in the tiny number at the end of the sentence (if your browser supports Javascript then you may also see a Harvard style reference pop up when you mouse over the link). If a specific sentence does not have a citation at its end, that indicates that multiple sentences are all supported by the same source (and page in the case of books and other large sources) and the citation is located at the end of the last sentence in the paragraph supported by that source. --Allen3 ^talk 00:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]