NetworkedLearner

July 2021

Your edit to Asian Journal of Distance Education has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.  A S U K I T E  14:16, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi, just a followup to this - the page in question (Asian Journal of Distance Education homepage) does say the journal is published using a compatible creative commons license, but it doesn't mention whether this applies to the website as well. If you have any link or page which does indicate this, then the material would be fine to copy, as long as we attribute it.  A S U K I T E  14:19, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

The journal and articles are licensed by CC-BY. Please see: http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/about NetworkedLearner (talk) 14:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I did just look at WP:COMPLIC and cc-by-sa 4.0 is not yet compatible for legal reasons, meaning that even if the site is licensed that way, we probably can't use the content here anyways.  A S U K I T E  14:28, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

It is CC-BY, not CC-BY-SA NetworkedLearner (talk) 14:30, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

yes, I suppose it is. Thanks. I'll revert my changes and add a declaration for you in a minute.  A S U K I T E  14:32, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you NetworkedLearner (talk) 14:35, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, looks like somebody else did tag the page for deletion - I also did look again at that license statement and it's a bit confusing - one line says ShareAlike (so CC-BY-SA), but then in parentheses it says (CC-BY). If you do recreate the page later (keeping in mind the reason it was deleted - for failing to make a credible claim of significance), I would first ask at the teahouse or Wikipedia talk:Copyrights to make sure we can use the content. Thanks.  A S U K I T E  14:47, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you NetworkedLearner (talk) 19:51, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Asian Journal of Distance Education

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A tag has been placed on Asian Journal of Distance Education requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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AsianJDE is a scholarly non-profit, open-access journal indexed in prominent databases sharing the same spirit as Wikipedia. Please see the explanations in the following link:

http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/about NetworkedLearner (talk) 14:42, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

NetworkedLearner, Wikipedia isn't a place to promote yourself or your work. MrOllie (talk) 14:47, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Further problems

1. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. Certainly we can't accept material copied from a website wirh a copyright notice which clearly says "all rights reserved", as in the case of the draft you created.
2. Even on the rare occasions when there is no copyright problem, content from an organisation or business's own website is not usually suitable for a Wikipedia article, as it is almost invariably written in terms designed to promote the organisation and give a good impression of it, rather than presenting it from a neutral point of view, as required for a Wikipedia article. That was indeed the case with the draft you created. Such promotional material is not permitted by Wikipedia policy. JBW (talk) 14:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

   Thank you for clarifying the case NetworkedLearner (talk) 19:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)