User talk:Alli4c4t

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Hello, Alli4c4t, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Derby and District RSPCA, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Derby and District RSPCA


A tag has been placed on Derby and District RSPCA 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Travelbird (talk) 20:59, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article; quite apart from copyright considerations, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia  does not accept promotional articles, even for worthy causes. Even if you own the copyright and are willing to give us permission according to the full formal procedure at WP:DCM, the tone will not be encyclopedic and the material will not be suitable.

A Wikipedia article must include only material that would be of interest to a general reader coming across the mention of the subject and wanting the sort of information that would be found in an encyclopedia. Do not include material that would be of interest only to those associated with the subject, or to prospective donors or volunteers--that sort of content is considered promotional.

Additionally, a Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. It is extremely usual for a local branch of an organization to have such references--normally all that is available arementions in local papers.

As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know.

I do not want to discourage you, but to urge you to  help us by improving our coverage on  topics in your area of interest. When you do write these articles,I have two key points of advice:

1/ do not copy from a web site; rewrite the information from scratch

2/ put in a reference to a published source at the very first edit. This is particularly important for articles about living people, which will be deleted if there are no references.

If I can help you further, let me know on my user talk page.  DGG ( talk ) 23:18, 27 April 2012 (UTC)