Mjgangler
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Your submission at Articles for creation
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- If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Detroit Rugby Football Club.
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- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial (Contact me,Contribs) 18:39, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
I can possibly answer a few of your questions (although you could probably get more detailed answers on the New contributors' help page):
- By admitting you are on the Board of the Detroit Rugby Football Club, you have a conflict of interest to the subject of your article. All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. Too many times, people who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which causes them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. You are not absolutely prohibited from editing about this rugby team, but you need to be especially careful about ensuring that your edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible. This includes writing in a way so that it does not read like an advertisement, a press release, or any other marketing material. Please familiarize yourself with content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information. Please also see our frequently asked questions for organizations.
- The way that Articles for Creation works is that there is a separate set of regular Wikipedia users who review each submission, and then they post their comments on the user's talk page – just as the user Excirial posted in that rejection message above. And your submission was rejected because Excirial felt that it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. And then I, as a Wikipedia administrator, deleted the page because we cannot keep anything that violates copyright.
- Now I cannot speak for Excirial on the specifics of the rejection of your Articles for Creation submission (you may also post a question on Excirial's user talk page) but what I saw is that major portions were either copied and pasted or closely paraphrased from here and here. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously (the primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights), and in general we do not permit people copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing significant portions of text from other sources. This includes websites of the charity or non-profit organizations, educational sources and all sources without a copyright notice. Even if a work does not have a copyright notice, we assume it to be under copyright-protection based on the terms of the international Berne Convention. Because you never stated who you were or what you represent, we assumed it was a copyright violation, and thus deleted it. Please also see our frequently asked questions for copyrights.
- Because it has been determined to be a copyright violation, I myself am not willing to basically aid in law-breaking and restore it. Furthermore, because most of the content was copied and pasted or closely paraphrased from those sites, your submission read like an advertisement masquerading as an article (which, as I stated in my first bullet point, is not permitted). It did not have a neutral tone like, for example, the Detroit Lions article, and instead was written in a first-person point of view by frequently using words like "we" and "our". I'm not sure there is much to salvage beyond the external links and references. Even if you, as a representative of your organization, did follow the directions listed on Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, we still would have rejected it anyway because it sounded like an ad.
- As for your last question, the surefire way to save an article so you do not have to recreate it from scratch is basically to save the text locally on your own computer. This is especially helpful if Wikipedia goes down unexpectedly for some period of time due to maintenance.
Apologies for these strict guidelines, but Wikipedia is a highly visited site. And thus we attract people who violate copyrights. And people who try to use it in a way to promote a specific company or individual, compromising the integrity of Wikipedia as a non-bias source of information. And we attract notable celebrities, politicians and executives of major corporations who try to covertly manipulate the articles about themselves. Again, you could probably get more helpful and detailed answers on the New contributors' help page. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:28, 6 July 2012 (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/Detroit Rugby Football Club.
- 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 help desk, via real time chat with helpers, or on the
- Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Gold Standard 06:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:The official DRFC Logo.jpg
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Thanks for uploading File:The official DRFC Logo.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 09:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Detroit Rugby Football Club, 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) 19:50, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Your article submission Detroit Rugby Football Club
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Hello Mjgangler. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Detroit Rugby Football Club.
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/Detroit Rugby Football Club}}, 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. Hack (talk) 03:31, 3 December 2013 (UTC)