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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:38, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Cudavid! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 19:38, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

• User:Cudavid/sandbox may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Theroadislong (talk) 21:02, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Cudavid! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 02:35, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

• Note: Even if permission to use the text under a free license is verified, that does not mean that the text will be acceptable for use in an article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a mirror of an organisation's web site. See also the note below about paid editing. -- Whpq (talk) 02:37, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

Hello Cudavid. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Cudavid. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cudavid|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Whpq (talk) 02:37, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I am not being paid for the edits. I live in the New haven area and want to promote the work of a nonprofit organization for which I am an unpaid volunteer. I want to help the organization because it helps the community that I live in. Cudavid (talk) 20:46, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

The note about paid work is because you claimed to be the copyright holder of the source material. Even if unpaid, your affiliation with the organisation means you have a conflict of interest and need to follow the conflict of interest guidelines. As for creating an article about the organisation, any article must meet wikipedia's inclusion guidelines with significant coverage in independent reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 14:26, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I added the mandatory disclosure to my page.

Here are similar published pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleveland_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Community_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Community_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Foundation_of_Northern_Colorado

Please let me know if my article sources are sufficient. Cudavid (talk) 15:20, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Similar published pages are irrelevant. Each article's inclusion is based on the the sources for that article. The existence of other articles has no bearing. If you have questions about editing or article creation, I suggest you check out the Teahouse where new editors can get assistance. -- Whpq (talk) 15:38, 18 October 2023 (UTC)