Your RFA I apologise but I have closed your request for promotion early as the application was certain to fail the basic requirements expected of applicants NOTNOW given the scarcity of experience particularly in areas related to administration If you remain interested in becoming an administrator I would definitely recommend that you familiarise yourself with the guidelines on RFA applications GRFA before attempting the procedure again Good luck User talk Mephistophelian contact Please explain This contribution of yours today contains cut and pasted copyrighted information from this site namely Brown joined the Pelicans in March of 2010 and under his leadership he helped transition the team s Major League Baseball affiliation from the Atlanta Braves which they the club has been affiliated with since the club was started to the Texas Rangers following the 2010 season The team hosted headline events like the NCAA Regional Super Regionals in 2010 on behalf of Coastal Carolina University the 2010 Carolina California League All Star Game and the first ever exhibition game involving a big league team in Myrtle Beach when the reigning American League Champion Rangers took on the CCU Chanticleers on March 29 2011 Apart from one word change you have used the reference verbatim Please fix and read WP COPYVIO Please listen You accused me of vandalism in your summary of this edit Don t do that again Earlier I had edited the Tom Rice article to improve it from a bloggy pov poorly written mishmash to a reasonably encyclopedic article an ongoing task I took it from this abomination to this I have reverted you and suggest you don t revert me again Instead if you believe I am wrong you can report me elsewhere or ask for comment elsewhere ANI Hello Sk8terguy27 There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia Administrators noticeboard Incidents regarding an issue involving you The thread has the subhead Could someone handle this please Thank you Copyright issues report Hi I ve mentioned the copyright problems here Any help you can give in removing material that you know you ve copy pasted and then noting that it s been removed would be appreciated talk I doubt anyone would want you to quit I know I don t but it is very important that you respect copyrights IMHO nothing is a bigger threat to the continued success of Wikipedia than copyvios The potential for the foundation to get sued is far bigger than it is for libel by far I have been screamed at told off and generally put in my place dozens of time since I have been here and fully expect that I will again many times It would be really nice if everyone here was kind and respectful but just like society in general that just isn t the case My suggestion to you is to ask questions get help when you need it make friends and continue to work on articles you like The best thing I did after I got here was to get adopted There is no textbook for this and adoption provides you with a teacher that will walk you through the ropes and be around after you graduate to mentor you Another great thing here is the Teahouse It is a place especially for newer users to ask questions and get answers without attitude My dad always used to say that the only stupid question was the one you didn t ask and the Teahouse definitively follows that credo I will leave you an invite after this message I will also be happy to help you in any way I can Just drop a note on my talk page Welcome to Wikipedia and happy editing Hi Sk8terguy27 I have removed your recent addition to the article David