User talk:Bobmac3

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Bobmac3


A tag has been placed on User:Bobmac3 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. 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Robert (Bob) McCarthy
Hello Bobmac3,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Robert (Bob) McCarthy for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, LGA  talk to me  23:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry that the page you created will get deleted soon, but wikipedia only accepts free content, so you will have to donate the text to WP following the proper processes outlined here. However please be aware even if you do that the page may still be deleted as we only accept articles on persons who meet the sites notability rules, we do not accept articles that appear to promote the subject and we like it if contributors avoid a conflict of interest situation. LGA  talk to me  23:38, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Copyright, notability, autobiography
Wikipedia cannot hold copyright material, not even in sandboxes or AfC submission pages, not even temporarily. Please read Copy-paste.

Please note that assertion of permission to use text is not enough; we have to be certain that the person giving a release has the authority to do so, and that the actual copyright holder understands and agrees to Wikipedia's license terms, which allow any reader to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial. For those reasons, a formal copyright release, as described above, is required.

It is very seldom worth making a copyright release, because the promotional tone of a company or personal website is likely to be quite unsuitable for an encyclopedia article, which requires a neutral point of view. Wikipedia is not a notice-board for pinning up promotional material.

Although it is not explained in advance as well as it should be, Wikipedia is not a site like LinkedIn or Facebook for people to write about themselves. It is a quite different sort of site, a project to build an encyclopedia, so it is selective about subjects for articles, and writing about oneself is strongly discouraged, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Autobiography. User pages are user pages, but they should be used primarily to present information relevant to working on the encyclopedia, and are not for substantial content... that is unrelated to Wikipedia.

Article subjects need to have notability, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." There is more detail at WP:Notability (people) and WP:MUSICBIO, and good advice on how to write an acceptable article at WP:Your first article.

JohnCD (talk) 23:43, 19 February 2013 (UTC)