User talk:Benchallis

Welcome!

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I also just noticed your contribution to sampling (music), I noticed that you added some information from the site: http://www.musicjournal.org/03thesongremainsthesame.html, which I initially thought could be a copyright violation (ironic, given the subject matter!) But then I notice you are apparently the author of the article in question, so I would just like to clarify that you are the author in question and your are releasing the text that you contributed under the GFDL? I (or you) can then happily reinstate the text. Thanks. --Lexor|Talk 15:37, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

An offer of help[edit]

Hi Ben, and welcome to Wikipedia. Instead of giving you the usual welcome note (as someone else has done above), I thought I'd offer to help you out. I recently had to delete A Greener Festival because it came accross as an advert and didn't meet our requirements for inclusion. Before I deleted it though, I copied it to your userspace. You can find it under User:Benchallis/A Greener Festival, where you can work on the article without it being deleted. What I'd suggest is reworking the article to make it less commercial and more encyclopedic. If you can, try and work in some references from newspapers, magazines or other reliable sources in order to demonstrate that what the article is about will meet our requirements for verifiability and notability. You might find that the tutorial here helps as well. Finally, if you have any questions please feel free to ask me a question on my talk page and I'll do my best to help out. Best of luck! Gazi moff 19:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Ignerents[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Ignerents[edit]

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I have declined the speedy deletion of the article, but I'm afraid we still need you to follow the procedure outlined at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials in order for us to verify that you have permission to release the content under a free license. VernoWhitney (talk) 17:43, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

your Bot incorrectly indentified the original source of the material which I wrote. the original source is here http://www.theignerents.blogspot.co.uk/ : whilst I do know the person who runs the 'bored teenagers' website, which of course is why he has the text in question, I will now modify the Ignerents pages here http://www.theignerents.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/ignerents-brief-history-in-time.html as well as the band's discography here http://www.theignerents.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/ignerents-discography.html

OK - those two pages are now under Creative Commons licences using the wording from your good selves - although I can't say I am that much of a fan of Creative Commons !

Nomination of Greener festivals for deletion[edit]

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