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The Prayer Book Society

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This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of The Prayer Book Society, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.pbs.org.uk. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of The Prayer Book Society

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A tag has been placed on The Prayer Book Society requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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 as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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The article was a word for word copy of the website, and there isn't any mention on the website that the text or any material has been released to the public domain or is available freely to copy by way of sharealike licenses. You may be the author/webmaster of the site, but there's no way for Wikipedia to know that. So, if you'd like for the text to be used here, you'll need to make sure that your site has a sharealike license attribution note or send in a permission. This link can help you in going about this process.

However, I should also add that copyright of the content is not the only issue here. We have notability requirements, and in short, content in our article should be sourced to independent third party sources. In short, Wikipedia articles are about subjects that have been written about by others. So, even if the copyright problem is addressed, you'll have to show that the organization meets the notability requirements specified at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). You can find out how to write an article at the article wizard. cheers. -SpacemanSpiff 22:34, 22 December 2009 (UTC)Reply