User talk:Florida dave

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Hello, Florida dave, and welcome to Conservapedia!

I am a contributor named DavidB4. I just want to say hello and offer any assistance you might need! Also, we have some guides which might help you get started and learn your way around if you need them.

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Thanks for joining our community, Florida dave! We look forward to working with you!
--David B ^(TALK) 17:35, 9 February 2019 (EST)

While we do allow authors to copy in text which they hare written, we try to avoid copy-and-pastes from other sources, even if the text is not copyrighted. Additionally, the text you imported on Darrell Castle is rather messy and not formatted well at all, as a direct copy from another wiki. Please consider cleaning it up and doing a bit of a rewrite, or it may be deleted.
Thank you! --David B ^(TALK) 17:35, 9 February 2019 (EST)

The pages you created were direct copies from Wikipedia -- Conservapedia does not allow this, with the sole exception being then you are the original author of all of the copied info. Please see Conservapedia:Commandments and Conservapedia:Guidelines#Copying From Other Sources.

Also, even if we were allowed to copy content from Wikipedia, it must be reformatted to comply with these guidelines:

• Conservapedia:Editing article and talk pages
• Conservapedia:How to create and maintain high-quality articles

Thank you for your understanding. --1990'sguy (talk) 17:39, 9 February 2019 (EST)

By the way, you are completely welcome to re-create the articles we had to delete, as long as you follow what we said above. --1990'sguy (talk) 17:40, 9 February 2019 (EST)

Thank you for checking, 1990'sguy. I have not gotten around to investigating yet. He is absolutely correct, Dave, copying others' work from places like WP is not allowed. We welcome anything of quality which you wish to write yourself, but we cannot use WP content as our own. Thank you for understanding! --David B ^(TALK) 17:42, 9 February 2019 (EST)