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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:27, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

November 2021

Hello, I'm Wizzito. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Black Women Radicals have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. wizzito | say hello! 17:14, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Black Women Radicals

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A tag has been placed on Black Women Radicals 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 https://aaww.org/postauthor/black-women-radicals/, https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/about, and https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/about-continued-1. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken 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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@NotaToken, Apitter2389, and Trinitywb: Your article was deleted because it included content copied nearly verbatim from the source, which is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be written entirely in your own words. Short quotes are acceptable when the precise wording matters, but need to be clearly marked as quotes.

It wasn't clear from your draft whether you are talking about a specific organization or an ideological grouping. If it's an organization, you need to rely on sources that tie the people you write about to the org. If it's a school of thought, you need to rely on sources that describe these people as adherents to that school of thought.

In addition, your work had problems in terms of the tone. You need to write in a tone that's neutral. And you need to attribute opinions instead of stating them as facts. For example, you wrote To be a Black Woman Radical, one must identify as a black woman... While that's probably reasonably true, it's best to say that this is BWR's definition of a Black Woman Radical. Try to keep your writing a bit more boring, a bit drier. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:19, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake. You're writing about an organization. I edited my comment above. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:26, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey Ian (Wiki Ed), sorry to bother, but I left a few messages on your talk page. Please give them a look when you have time; there are a few other things with this course I pointed out. wizzito | say hello! 18:27, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Just a note that I've reverted your move of User:NotaToken/Black_Women_Radicals into mainspace, as it appears to duplicate an existing article (Black Women Radicals), and still had sourcing and copyright issues. I've removed the copyright violating content from the draft. Thanks, firefly ( t · c ) 16:03, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Please stop moving your sandbox to mainspace. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

@Ian (Wiki Ed): It appears that the article also exists in mainspace as what looks like a copy-paste of the draft discussed here, with the same potential copyright issues. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:41, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

@Blablubbs Yes, looks like another member of the same group created that version. I'll clean up the copyvio now and follow up. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Black Women Radicals for deletion

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wizzito | say hello! 21:34, 13 December 2021 (UTC)