MrAlanStevens
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Speedy deletion nomination of Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia edit
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A tag has been placed on Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia 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://vjmc.org.au/j30/. 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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Speedy deletion nomination of Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia edit
Hello MrAlanStevens,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.
The article Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- A7. No indication of importance (people, animals, organizations, web content, events)
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:36, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
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--Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:53, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for the invitation. I don't want to build a Wikipedia profile for myself. I am just trying to state the place of the VJMC in the world of things. I can't manage to get my own page stable on Wikipedia so I think I would be of little use in helping with your other tasks. I am overwhelmed by the complexity of the rules and it's just not worth it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by MrAlanStevens (talk • contribs) 01:28, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
- Creating a new article is a terrible way to begin editing Wikipedia. It's a very common mistake, and it usually ends in tears.I t's much better to start small. You're trying to get your "own page" started, and that's not how it works at all.
It's not your "own page". Any article on Wikipedia belongs to Wikipedia. Anything you write on a Wikipedia article belongs to them, not you. You donated it to Wikipedia by your own choice to help Wikipedia. It's not there to help you, or help a club. See? You need to be here to build Wikipedia. That's what I'm doing. I'm here as a volunteer to make Wikipedia better, not to get something of my own. The website vjmc.org.au belongs to VJMC Australia. That's theirs, and nobody can take away what VJMC wants to say about themselves on their page.
See? Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club - Australia is Wikipedia property. vjmc.org.au is VJMC property. That's how this works. Wikipedia does not owe anybody more publicity. If VJMC wishes to be more famous, they need to get newspapers, magazines, books, and TV or radio to give them attention. That doesn't start on Wikipedia.
As I said, the best way to understand why Wikipedia is as complex as it is is to do some editing, but not on a topic you're invested in. Just some subject you want to learn about or know something about. When you try to figure out how a concept like "anybody can edit" could ever work, then you will see how it got so complex. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:27, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
Dennis, thank you for the reply. I understand that you are a volunteer and so will to ignore the "cut and paste" nature of the response and therefore the way it talks down to me. I suggest Wikipedia review pages like "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Motor_Cycle_Club" or the outlaw club "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanchero_Motorcycle_Club" in light of the comments on the page i tried to establish. I have created 3 pages about 15 years ago, two of which are still there but by the response, it appears Wikipedia has a known member of it's community create the page. Thanks but that won't be me.