User talk:Dot
Welcome!
Hello, Dot, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your name and the date. If you need help, check out the community portal, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -DES Talk 18:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Dorothy Cora Moore
You recently created a page Bio:Dorothy Cora Moore which appears to be a biography of an author or artist. Please note that on the Help:Contents/Purpose page, editors are advised that:
- "The ISFDB Wiki is not a place to record author biographies. It's harmless to add biographical information to these pages, but it may be deleted by editors who work on the bibliographies of those authors. Wikipedia is an excellent place for biographies of sf authors, and the ISFDB has a facility for adding a link to the Wikipedia article for each author."
While there are a few cases where we do use the Author: or better the Bio: pages to record biographical information, these are mostly authors long dead who do not now have and are not likely to have a Wikipedia article, but ones we have a significant body of work indexed. I hope this information is helpful.
In addition, this page appaers to be a direct quote from a published review. As the reveiw is presumably copyrighted, the page will need to be deleted unless there is permisison to republish it from the magazine involved.
Thank you for your desire to contribute to the ISFDB. -DES Talk 19:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
I have reduced Bio:Dorothy Cora Moore to a very brief biographical statement, removing the ForeWard review completely. It is the consensus that the ISFDB wiki is not the place for reveiws of any sort. See ISFDB:Moderator noticeboard#Possible copyright violation for the discussion of this issue. -DES Talk 00:55, 19 June 2008 (UTC)