User talk:Aric Sneddon

Rhododendron Festival
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Rhododendron Festival, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.florencechamber.com/events/rhody-festival-history.shtml.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Rhododendron Festival
A tag has been placed on Rhododendron Festival 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.

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Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I had to delete the article. If you do in fact have authority to release it --that is, if you yourself wrote it, or it was written for the chamber of commerce, and the Chamber owns the copyright, you must explicitly license the rights to the material according to our licensing using the CC-BY-SA  and the GNU  licenses, as explained in WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:Donating copyrighted materials ; be aware that these  give everyone in the world an irrevocable license to reuse and alter the material, even for commercial purposes. You can also do this by putting a CC 3.0/GFDL license on the web page, as explained there. But,even so, You need 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  You also need to write like an encyclopedia article, not a press release--the detail is way excessive for a general encyclopedia. Fort some more help, see our guide to writing Wikipedia articles.  DGG ( talk ) 02:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)