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Speedy deletion nomination of Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize

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A tag has been placed on Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/fraunhoferburley/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Jmiller1455, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Nick Holonyak Jr. Award have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:38, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

The Optical Society

Hi! If I've read the notice here correctly, you are a public relations manager for The Optical Society, and have made a real effort to be transparent about that. Thank you – an awful lot of people don't trouble to make that kind of declaration at all.

Please don't be alarmed, but I have moved the various articles you've created into draft space (I'll list them below in a minute). I've done that for two reasons: the first is that, even with a proper declaration of conflict of interest, you really shouldn't be editing or creating articles relating to your employer (it's not actually forbidden, but it is strongly discouraged). The second reason is that I believe those pages are not ready for the big bad world just yet; specifically, the notability of the various awards is not clearly established. They may be notable, I wouldn't know, but I don't see that the various pages show convincingly that they are. That means that the pages are at risk of deletion in article space. Draft space is a kind of safe haven: there's no urgency, pages are not normally deleted (there are exceptions, such as copyright violations), and you can submit them for review as and when you feel like it. Your articles are at:

• Draft:Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
• Draft:Emmett N. Leith Medal
• Draft:Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
• Draft:Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
• Draft:R. W. Wood Prize
• Draft:Herbert Walther Award

I have a suggestion: instead of creating separate stubs for the various awards, have you considered making a single List of prizes awarded by the Optical Society, with a short section on each prize? Because that would probably solve a lot of problems at once, not least the notability question. Now I'm going to leave you some standard boiler-plate text about conflict of interest, mainly to give you some links to follow. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:43, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jmiller1455. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article The Optical Society, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:44, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 21:02, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Jarus W. Quinn Prize concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Jarus W. Quinn Prize, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. 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) 01:31, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Jarus W. Quinn Prize

Hello, Jmiller1455. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jarus W. Quinn Prize".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 20:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia, which one? ImmortalWizard(chat) 20:28, 19 January 2019 (UTC)