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Copyright issues edit
I am sorry, but I have had to delete all the copies of the material that you posted, because they were copyright violations. Copyright is a very serious issue for Wikipedia, see WP:Copy-paste and for more detail WP:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations. You could probably say that you have permission to use the material, but that is not enough; we have to be certain that the person giving a release has the authority to do so, and that the actual copyright holder understands and agrees to Wikipedia's license terms, which allow any reader to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial. For those reasons, a formal copyright release is required.
The procedure for doing that is described at WP:Donating copyrighted materials, but it is almost never worth while, because material written for other purposes is very seldom suitable for an encyclopedia article.
I will write more advice later today, but for a start read User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard which explains some of the issues. JohnCD (talk) 20:24, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- WP:Your first article is also worth reading. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Advice edit
One reason why just copying an organization's website into Wikipedia would not be satisfactory is that, as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is selective about subjects for articles. The criterion used is called Wikipedia:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people not connected with the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about?
That has the advantage of being a more objective test than "Do we think it's important?" and also of ensuring that there are independent sources for the article. It is quite a tough test, and many worthy organizations, especially new ones, cannot pass it. That is not at all to their discredit, but it means they are not suitable subjects for a global encyclopedia. The test applies to non-commercial organizations and good causes - we have an explanatory essay entitled Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause.
You presumably work for the organization. That gives you, from Wikipedia's point of view, a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a COI, but it's more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what you want to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. And keep in mind that the goal of an encyclopedia is to say things in a concise manner, which is not the style of press releases or web sites, which are usually more expansive.
Think hard about notability. See WP:42 for what it means. If you cannot find independent sources to establish it, you will be wasting your time and effort. If you want to go ahead,
- Read WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest
- Read WP:Your first article
- Click on Help:Userspace draft and fill in the title. That will start a draft page in your "user space" where you can work on the article, with a link to good advice and a "Submit" button which will send the article, when it is ready, to WP:Articles for creation, where an experienced user will look at it, and either accept it or give you feedback.
- When writing, make a strong effort to think of yourself, not as writing for the organization, but as writing for Wikipedia about the organization, from outside. Bear in mind the WP:Verifiability policy: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and when writing any glowing adjective, or indeed any claim, imagine a hostile critic saying "Who says? Can you prove that?" Don't talk about the organization's aims and hopes for the future, but about what is has achieved. No opinions, only facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources. Write in your own words, without copying from the website.
By now you are thinking "This is much harder than I thought, all I wanted to do was post a copy of our web-site to tell the world about us!" I apologise that (because we are anxious not to put new contributors off by making them read a lot of advice) Wikipedia does not make clear at sign-up time that it is not a "notice-board" site like Myspace or Facebook, which are set up for people to do exactly that; but if Wikipedia is a more valuable resource than Myspace, it is only because we have standards and rules on notability, verifiability and conflict of interest.
I have gone into all this at length not because I wish to discourage you, but to help you understand what is involved, and to avoid the common situation where a new contributor expends a lot of time, energy and emotion to no effect. If you decide to go ahead, you will find many people willing to advise and assist you. There is the Teahouse, where you have already been; there is a WP:Tutorial and a WP:New contributors' help page, and you can also ask for help by putting {{helpme}} (two curly brackets each side) at the bottom of this talk page with your question below it.
Your submission at Articles for creation edit
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Scarborough Arts.
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- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 19:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
The Teahouse Turns One! edit
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Your submission at Articles for creation edit
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zara Peerzada.
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- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Umerali2204 (talk) 16:02, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation edit
- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Scarborough Arts.
- To edit the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, or on the . Please remember to link to the submission!
- You can also get live chat help from experienced editors.
- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 20:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zara Peerzada, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.
You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.
If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.
Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 00:06, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zara Peerzada edit
Hello Faizaarts. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Zara Peerzada".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zara Peerzada}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, click "Save", and an administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 02:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)