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Western Electric

Hi. Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edits to Western Electric here, here, and here, as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edits had to be reverted, because Misplaced Pages cannot accept uncited material. Misplaced Pages requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 03:20, 17 November 2021 (UTC) (There is no online source for the directory, other than an image of the directory locations with addresses taken from a printed directory that a Western Electric employee has in his possession.)

Please do not add uncited or poorly cited information to articles, as you did with some of the information in these edits to Western Electric. While some of the information is supported by citations, and I thank you for adding it, you also added material lacking in citations, such as Celia G Martin Thigpen in the employees table, and material supported by citations of sources that are either not considered reliable under WP:IRS, or which dod not provide enough information for the reader to verify the source. Sources whose content is user-generated, such as ebay, or fan sites hosted by Angelfire, are not reliable sources. Please familiarize yourself with WP:IRS. As for Pat Sajak, the episode would have to be specified in terms of its airdate. Merely saying that it aired some time ago, but rerun in July 2020 is insufficient. As for the rest of the information, thanks for adding it. :) Nightscream (talk) 13:10, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

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April 2022

Your edit to Buick Gran Sport has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Misplaced Pages:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Misplaced Pages. For legal reasons, Misplaced Pages 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. Misplaced Pages takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Misplaced Pages:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 22:59, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The original owner, Rich Johns, of the 1975 Buick Gran Sport used the sales literature from GM of Canada and the sales order of the vehicle he posted in 2014 on the v8buick.com forums giving information for what were the options in his wording and methods of listing. The car images posted are similar to what was described in the lists of items. Used the wording and formatted the description of each item in a bullet list. The other site copied the information from the original source, that was referenced from, and noticed the same car picture from the owner. The value of the information by the owner and documentation, fits correctly into the article for Gran Sport 1975 Buick Century which has been omitted for that unique year. Thankfully, the source being the owner's post on v8buick.com being copied from a post, "1975 Buick Century Gran Sport Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Rich Johns, Jul 20, 2014" was used as external website as source of information. Reverting this. There is no copyright issue on the source. https://www.v8buick.com/index.php?threads/1975-buick-century-gran-sport.285742/ Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 03:39, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks for your assistance. I was able to use the description of the museum and the information in the exhibit to make a section in the Bonanzaville, USA Misplaced Pages article. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 22:45, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Domestic Versions 2019, 2020, 2021

Hello, I'm Mr.weedle. I noticed that you made a change to an article, TurboTax, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mr.weedle (talk) 04:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

I have tested the three versions 2019, 2020, and 2021 and determined the product uses the license code as an end-user. I provided a source for the 2021 version from the Intuit website where to find the 16-character license code, as it is the current version and there is a reference to th 2019 version uses 14 character license. The 2021 versions are currently installed on my test equipment and can provide images of the feature in the Help menu or the software activation window that is requiring 2019 and 2020 to be activated until validation. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 04:55, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

The problem is that we can NOT use your own experience in articles. In fact, we have several policies that forbid using your own experience in article, primarily No original research. We are a tertiary source, not a secondary or primary source. Your experience is first person, primary information. We can't use that. We can only publish information that has been published in secondary publications that are considered reliable sources. Car and Driver, Popular Science, CNN, NYT, like that. When you have some personal experience, that's fine, but you have to go find a secondary source that backs up the claim. That falls under our policy on verification. Every fact must be verifiable. I have the same problem with my industry, being a pioneer in alternative uses of UV, and I can't insert any of that information into any article, except for what little has been covered by reliable sources. So the rule applies to all of us. All encyclopedias are this way, they publish a summary of what has already been written about in books, magazine, newspapers and the like. You can't copy verbatim (that would be copyright infringement), but you summarize what they published, in your own words. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 19:26, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

I can provide the software images of the software interface that show the requirements in license codes and activation modifications. I will provide the images as my own work to include in the section. The only references at the moment are the software interface and what was provided from the software company help forums with computer problems. The reasons to do the inclusion are these three years have dramatically changed how to load and limited the tax software activation. Software that can't be activated probably or limited results in purchasing the same version after computer problems. There seems to be no sources to show this change feature and compare to the other competition tax software or previous versions. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 22:39, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Images of a copyrighted software program are usually copyrighted, so including them is against policy. Again, this would be your own research, WP:OR, which isn't allowed. Simply put, an encyclopedia does NOT do it's own, original research. We only publish what other reliable sources have said, summarized, and that is all. If no sources have said anything about the feature change, then you can not include it in the article. That is at the very core of our policy on verification, WP:V. Any claim you make MUST be able to be verified by independent sources. No sources means, you can't add it. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 23:01, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

I will review any comparisons made by the competition software, Taxcut, that might refer to the changes in Turbotax. That is the alternative option, but as I understand will not include further without a reliable source. Although, will include some information under Talk for anyone that might have or not seen this change in this three years. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 23:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Using talk is fine, and often helpful, as it may prod someone else to poke around and find a source. I know it can be frustrating, but being a tertiary source (encyclopedia) we are duty bound to publish only from outside our own experiences. Just a note, sometimes it is fine to use primary sources, ie: from their own website, as long as it isn't contentious material. Usually, features isn't. You just have to be careful to summarize, not copy over, and stick to what it says, don't draw conclusions or assumptions based on the info (ie: WP:SYNTH). Just keep it short, or it looks like advertising. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 23:43, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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January 2023--continuing to ignore copyright guidelines, apparent WP:COI concerns

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I have indicated "My relationship with Tung-Sol" into the talk section. I am not advertising, nor publicizing, nor promoting any person or anything about Tung-Sol. I have seen the old Orange Street factory thousands of time by walk and by transportation and was inquired what was that building and what did it do. I am an interpreter and process financial and immigration documentation for people in my neighborhood, in fact when I go to the apartment complex across from the factory, I can see the factory just above the interstate highway as I look out a window. I only own three Wagner 9004 lamps for replacement on my 1990/1991 Dodge Spirit, which are the pictures I provided to add to the article. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 20:15, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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I would kindly ask to not to be blocked from Misplaced Pages as I have provided information to help readers, such as myself, have learned new facts more about an article. Some informational edits were an effort to enhance the article but not going against a proficient editor in their knowledge of WP rules. I am a novice with attempts to learn the editing as I had become better at copyright material and referencing than previously had. If seen that I was disruptive, it was not what I intended as I attempted to re-use the information that was weeks researched into another article or elsewhere in the article or in a different method. Antonio cruz wiki (talk) 20:28, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

No response or acknowledgment re: persistent addition of copied content, WP:COI, or WP:OR. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:0:0:0:3F00 (talk) 19:25, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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