Talk:Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice

Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here) --Voicefestfoundation (talk) 15:10, 9 January 2014 (UTC) The content is as informative as any festivals previously listed in Wikipedia reflecting events that occurred in the past, and do not invite new visitors nor consumers. This explained, if still judged indispensable, the author, new on Wikipedia will be happy to make the eventual corrections that would fit the guidelines. thank you for your consideration.


 * Voicefestfoundation, I'm afraid the page was blatantly promotional and not only that included vast chunks of material pasted in from the festival's website and Facebook page, both of which were copyright infringements. However, I removed the speedy deletion tag because the article was potentially salvageable. I suggest you look at the changes I and another editor have made to bring the article into line with Wikipedia's policies on neutral point of view, etc. Your username suggests that you are closely affiliated with this organization. The article you produced demonstrates why Wikipedia strongly discourages editing with a conflict of interest. While it is possible to produce an article devoid of promotionalism and puffery when editing under those circumstances, it is extremely difficult to do so. Voceditenore (talk) 18:01, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://m.facebook.com/Phoenicia.FestivalOfTheVoice?v=info&expand=1, http://www.phoeniciavoicefest.org/about/the-festival-story/, and http://www.phoeniciavoicefest.org/about/. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Future editing
Future editors, especially those who are affiliated in any way with the Phoenicia International Festival of The Voice or one of its collaborators, must adhere to the following guidelines when editing it.
 * 1) Before even starting to edit it again, please read Conflict of interest for guidance.
 * 2) Remember that you are writing for an international readership, not simply Americans, and not simply your potential customers. Avoid the use of abbreviations like FL for Florida, NYC for New York City
 * 3) Simlarly, Wikipedia is not a newsletter or bulletin board. Avoid terms like "now", "soon", "currently" and "recently" which make the article both imprecise, and in many instances, quickly inaccurate. Instead, use expressions such as "as of 2009".
 * 4) This is an encyclopedia article, not the web page of your organization or its blog. Do not add casting calls, ticket information, donation or sponsorship solicitation. Future performances/plans are inappropriate. Performances should be added once they have actually taken place and an independent reference for them can be provided.
 * 5) All additions must be neutrally worded and use encyclopedic tone and style. Any additions which can be perceived by a neutral reader as hype or PR will be removed. See Neutral point of view and Avoid peacock terms for guidance.
 * 6) Do not add links to the external web sites of your collaborators unless they contain a specific page which is needed to explictly corroborate a fact in the article. In such cases, the link should go directly to that page, not simply to the front page of web site. Otherwise, add the links to their Wikipedia articles, if they're not already there. If they do not have a Wikipedia article, then consider writing one that is neutral, in your own words, and properly referenced to reliable sources to establish their notability.
 * 7) Do not paste in text from your or anyone else's official websites, blogs etc. Apart from the almost invariably unsuitable promotional style, it is a copyright violation unless the sites explicitly display a compatible free license. Further guidance can be found on Copyright violations and its associated pages.
 * 8) Remember, that once you have written an article on Wikipedia, you and/or your organization no longer own it. It will always have to conform to Wikipedia's policies on content, style and formatting – not to your organization's desired image or marketing goals. Further guidance can be found on Ownership of articles. Voceditenore (talk) 18:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20140109174409/http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20120826/tonner-nabs-top-ulster-business-honor to http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20120826/tonner-nabs-top-ulster-business-honor

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