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Thanks

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to the urban debate league pages here on Wikipedia. If you want to collaborate on some future projects, let me know.Thx2005 19:37, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

August 2007

A tag has been placed on Coalition Institute and Training Initiative, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Coalition Institute and Training Initiative, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you.

Your username leads me to believe that you are affiliated with the topic of this article. MKoltnow 17:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright status of IMPACT Coalition

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to IMPACT Coalition. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (www.impactcoalition.org in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:IMPACT Coalition with a link to where we can find that note;
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:IMPACT Coalition with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:IMPACT Coalition saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you want to edit constructively, take a look at the welcome page. Thank you. MKoltnow 17:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright status of Associated Leaders of Urban Debate

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Associated Leaders of Urban Debate. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (www.debateleaders.org in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Associated Leaders of Urban Debate with a link to where we can find that note;
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Associated Leaders of Urban Debate with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Associated Leaders of Urban Debate saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you want to edit constructively, take a look at the welcome page. Thank you. MKoltnow 17:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

recent articles on Urban Debate league, etc.

I've been trying to help some of these survive, and have now rewritten most of IMPACT Coalition. Please rewritethem immediately so they do not violate the copyright on their web sites.. See WP:Copyright about what to do if you want to donate copyright, but be aware that even so much of the material is excessivvely public relations oriented. This is an encyclopedia, and i very strongly advise you to rewrite instead. Coalition and Training Institute was not speedy deleted, but the content is in largepart duplicative, and it is crtainly ikely to be nominated for deletion unless greatly improved. DGG (talk) 00:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

status

I don't think you meant to replace the hangon tag, because the effect of that is to relist it for speedy deletion. I therefore removed it. What you need to do now is to rewrite any of the portions I did not already rewrite for you. You may license the text as well, as explained for the photos, but unless you do some more rewriting, the material is very likely to still be seen as excessively spammy. Copyright was not the only problem--it must read like an encyclopedia article, not a press release.

In terms of copyright, it is not enough to say you work there--you must follow the full formal procedure in WP:Copyright.The easiest way to do so is to place a GFDL license or a public domain statement on the web pages, and to say so. I remind you that no other license is acceptable. Merely giving us permission or licensing for non-commercial use only is not sufficient, because all of WP may be copied by anyone for any purpose.

I very strongly advise you to check other articles you have been writing for similar problems. There's no point writing articles unless you write them according to the accepted standards here, because they won't stay in. Though I am an administrator here, it is the community that decides what to do. Worthy as I think the subjects, it is not I who decide-- and in any case I and other administrators will always maintain our commonly-agreed practices. DGG (talk) 19:44, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Coalition institute and training initiative

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