User talk:Andrew-Fisher

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Hello, Andrew-Fisher, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Greater manchester cycling campaign, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Greater manchester cycling campaign


A tag has been placed on Greater manchester cycling campaign, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of https://www.cyclescape.org/groups. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) 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. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, 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 from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Chrissymad ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  14:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Further information
Hello, Andrew, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. I hope you have a successful time here. However, there are some problems with Greater manchester cycling campaign, which you should know about.
 * I was writing and editing the following message when the above deletion warning was posted. Some of what I have written is perhaps less appropriate now that the deletion warning is there, but I thought having written it i might as well post it anyway.  14:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) The article has no references to any independent sources. Such references are essential, to show that the subject of the article is notable enough to be included.  The guidelines on notability indicate what sort of thing is required.
 * 2) I searched for information about the campaign, and most of what I found did nothing to indicate that the campaign does in fact satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines. If it doesn't then any work on creating and editing an article about it is likely to be wasted, as the article will probably be deleted before long. I therefore strongly recommend that before doing any more work for the article, you check carefully that you have references which do establish notability.
 * 3) The article looked rather as though it was intended to promote the campaign.
 * 4) Use of the word "we" in the article is inappropriate, as all Wikipedia articles should be neutral accounts, not written from the point of vie of any person or group. No person or group "owns" a Wikipedia article, and no article can speak on behalf of any person or group.
 * 5) The most serious problem, however, is that the content of the article already exists on www.cyclescape.org, suggesting infringement of copyright. You may be working for the organisation that holds the copyright, and believe that you have the authority to reuse the content, but there are still problems. Firstly, we require proof that the copyright holder is permitting use of the content: we do not assume it is so just because someone who chooses to create a Wikipedia account says it's OK. (This is not an academic point: we very frequently get people falsely claiming to own copyright when they don't.) Secondly, if you do have the right to publish the content on Wikipedia, and do so, then you are licensing that content for free reuse by anyone in the world, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. Are you sure that the group is willing to do that? It is possible to provide Wikipedia with proof of licensing, but frankly 9n my opinion it isn't worth doing so, because simply rewriting the article in your own words is simpler.

Because of the copyright issue, the article may be subject to deletion at any time, without further warning. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)