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Norske Festivaler (Norway Festivals)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Norske Festivaler (Norway Festivals)


A tag has been placed on Norske Festivaler (Norway Festivals) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://norwayfestivals.com/nb/om-oss. 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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Hi, thanks for message. There is no prospect of restoring your article. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * It was written in the first person, with no attempt even to make it look like an objective article.
 * Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: Norske festivaler er i en unik posisjon som et nettverk av organisasjoner, fordi medlemmene består utelukkende av festivalarrangører som representerer alle de viktigste kunstneriske og kulturelle sjangerne på nasjonalt nivå. Vi er den ledende, nasjonale nettverksorganisasjon for norske kulturfestivaler... Vårt formål er å styrke den kulturelle festivalens posisjon gjennom felles kompetanseutvikling, kunnskapsproduksjon og formidling. Gjennom deltakelse i den offentlige politiske debatten, arbeider vi med å bedre driftsforholdene for festivaler og informere om festival aktivitet og virksomhet... Videre jobber vi med utgangspunkt i den grunnleggende tro at våre medlemsfestivaler er Norges beste profesjonelle formidlere av sine kunstneriske og kulturelle uttrykk. De siste årene har vi opplevd en økning i etableringen av nye festivaler, mange av dem kommersielt orientert. Sammen med andre typer underholdning, konkurrerer disse med våre medlemmer over publikums oppmerksomhet. For Norske festivaler er det derfor viktig å fremheve arbeidet til våre medlemsfestivaler og hjelpe heve deres status i offentligheten og blant publikum. Dette gjør vi ved å jobbe alene eller i samarbeid med søsterorganisasjoner og andre interessenter. &mdash;spam, spam, spam.


 * it's all about what the organisation claims to do, few hard facts. No headquarters location, number of staff, funding or expenditure, just spam.
 * the article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. I see no such disclaimer on your page in either the English or Norwegian versions. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * It is a requirement of English language Wikipedia that articles are written in English. You can post in Norwegian here or here. Note that the English language version of your page is no more acceptable than the Norwegian one, it's still spam, copyright violation and no independent sources.
 * Your edits indicate that you have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. See also the message below Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:09, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello Aagotbugge. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:09, 29 September 2015 (UTC)