User talk:Megbop
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of The Strand (band), and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://strandland.com/bio.html. 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. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)
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June 2010[edit]
Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content, as you did to the page The Strand (band). Blank pages can confuse readers, and are overall not helpful to the Wikipedia project; furthermore, blanking a page is not the same as deleting it.
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The recent edit you made to the page The Strand (band) has been reverted, as it removed all content from the page without explanation. Please do not do this, as it is considered vandalism; use the sandbox for testing. If you think the page should be deleted, see this page for instructions. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ 02:09, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Copyright problem: The Strand (band)[edit]
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as The Strand (band), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://strandland.com/bio.html, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.
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- While not a word-for-word copy, the article is a close paraphrase and needs to be rewritten further (preferably from scratch) in order to avoid infringing copyright. VernoWhitney (talk) 13:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of The Strand (band)[edit]
A tag has been placed on The Strand (band) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}}
to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Codf1977 (talk) 14:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Delete it, I will rework the page and resubmit.
Re Strand[edit]
Hi Megbop, sorry you were hammered so hard by all the rules right away! I appreciate your contribution and look forward to your rewritten article. However, keep in mind that we get a lot of articles on bands, thus bands are required to meed the criteria at WP:MUSIC, which generally means the band has had to have an album on a real label, or a national tour, or articles about them, or that sort of thing. Herostratus (talk) 05:06, 18 June 2010 (UTC)