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Copley edit
Hi. Welcome, again. Your article "Copley SA" has been deleted because it was not an encyclopedia article so much as a discussion about one. The content has been placed on Talk:Leigh Creek, South Australia, where interested people may see it; but the best thing to do, if you think there should be an article about Copley, is to write one yourself - that's how Wikipedia works. If you start one, other people will probably chip in and help. There is a Wikipedia:WikiProject South Australia, but looking at their talk page it does not seem very active; but if you post a message at Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board you may find people interested in helping you.
Read WP:Your first article for general advice, and look at some other articles about small towns, like Parachilna, South Australia.
Don't worry about notability - any inhabited place that can be identified on a map is considered notable enough for an article, and Copley is in the Times atlas.
One important thing I should explain: one of Wikipedia's central policies is WP:Verifiability: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." You can't just put things about Copley into your article because you know them - you must be able to cite a reliable source where they have been published.