User talk:ToDaSt

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Unfortunately I've had to remove the text from your draft Draft:Lawrence Hall (1885), as it was derived from text previously published at . I can see from your user page that you are the archivist at St. Cloud State University — unfortunately for copyright reasons we can't accept text that you have previously published on your website unless it has been released under a compatible free licence. If your institution does wish to go through the process to release this text under a free license, you can refer to the instructions at WP:DONATETEXT. Please just let me know if you have questions about any of this, and sorry for the hassle! MCE89 (talk) 17:14, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

The page Draft:Lawrence Hall (1885) has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appeared to be a direct copy from https://web.archive.org/web/20250209175541/https://www.stcloudstate.edu/library/archives/digital/buildings/profiles.aspx and Old revisions have hidden text copied from the same website. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I appreciate the note, thank you. It was just a draft and wasn't meant to be published yet. If I did publish it, it was an accident - I thought it was a draft still. I've edited Wikipedia pages before but never created one.

As for the content, I researched and wrote it as I am the St. Cloud State University archivist (which I identified as in my profile). As a test and a try, I wanted to create a few Wikipedia pages for some of our well-known campus buildings. ToDaSt (talk) 22:18, 17 February 2026 (UTC)