User talk:Balone21

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Proposed deletion of Sri Lankan Drumming: The Thammattama (Book and eBook)


The article Sri Lankan Drumming: The Thammattama (Book and eBook) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Promotional article for non-notable book by non-notable author.

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Nomination of Sri Lankan Drumming: The Thammattama (Book and eBook) for deletion
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February 2020
Your addition to Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. signed,Rosguill talk 22:34, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

The director of GB Pant Social Science Institute, who is in charge of the content for the website, also approved the content being used for the Institute's Wikipedia page. In fact, one can see the same wordings being used on 3 or 4 different websites to describe the school, because if a write-up is good, why re-write it just for the sake of rewriting it?

I can verify that the director of GB Pant Social Science Institute, who is the final authority in copyright issues for the website, fully approved for the content to also be used for the Wikipedia page.

Incidentally, not everything was from the webpage, but it was all removed. For example, the section regarding the UP Government-founded Kumbh Research Centre.

So please do reinstate the page Balone21 (talk) 00:56, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Please follow the instructions at Donating copyrighted materials for how to properly obtain permission to use the school's copy. It's not as simple as the director telling you it's ok, we need the materials to actually be released under a specific type of legal license.
 * As for the other content on the page, the copyvio tool flagged it as being copied from another copyrighted source, so that isn't ok to use either. signed,Rosguill talk 08:30, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * As for the other content on the page, the copyvio tool flagged it as being copied from another copyrighted source, so that isn't ok to use either. signed,Rosguill talk 08:30, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Kumbh Mela. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. ''Please do not put promotional content in the external link. '' Fylindfotberserk (talk) 08:43, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Reply by Balone21: By no account should what I posted be considered "promotional material." It is cultural anthropological research data compiled by Social Scientists and Ethnomusicologists at the 2019 Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. Copies are housed at the "Kumbh Research Centre" and at the "American Institute for Indian Studies." As I own the material, I was making it available via Wikipedia as well. If you do not want it to be as easily available for those searching for it, okay. But please do not refer to it as "Promotional Material," as this is not promotional at all - no more than the rest of the page is. Thank you. Balone21 (talk) 07:50, 12 February 2020 (UTC)