User talk:Carriekoenig07

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Speedy deletion nomination of MedStar Visiting Nurse Association


A tag has been placed on MedStar Visiting Nurse Association 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.

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December 2011
Hello Carriekoenig07. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article MedStar Visiting Nurse Association, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. If you are the same Carrie Koenig who is the marketing director at MedStar VNA please review the conflict of interest policy carefully. GabrielF (talk) 17:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Why the article was deleted
You said (I assume it was you): This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because I am still trying to figure out Wikipedia. I am working to create the citations requested and reference's to the VNA's website and other sources for credibility. Can you please restore the page so that I can continue editing?

Figuring out Wikipedia does take some time. I know, I was new once, and it can be infuriating. However, what is not allowed is leaving material up that is subject to copyright, while it is being worked on.

Here's some advice I have given to others:

I've found that if I copy and paste the material, and try to rewrite it, that it still ends up too close to the original. A better approach is to find more than one source (always desirable), then, put them aside, and write about the subject in one's own words. After writing, return to the original text, and determine whether it is too close (if you have a better memory than I do), or if some points would be better made by an explicit quote and attribution, with the quote suitably short. -- SPhilbrick  (Talk)  20:16, 16 December 2011 (UTC)