User talk:Clementscenter

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Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy &amp; Statecraft
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy &amp; Statecraft, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.clementscenter.org/about.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft


A tag has been placed on Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft 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. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.clementscenter.org/about. 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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Clements Center logo
Regarding your question about the logo of the Clements Center: There are copyright issues, and various possible solutions depending on the logo's copyright status. I saw that the "content of www.clementscenter.org" has been released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License; does that include the logo? If so, you can upload it to the Wikimedia Commons via their Upload Wizard.

If the logo is not meant to be freely licensed, things get a little trickier. Wikipedia (unlike the Commons, which is for free images only) allows the use of some non-free content under the doctrine of "fair use", but there are severe restrictions lined out in the non-free content criteria. The good news is that the use of an organization's logo as the primary means of visual identification in an infobox is permissible. The bad news is that non-free images may only be used in live articles; a draft is not enough. Thus you'd have to wait with uploading the logo until the draft has been accepted. The Wikipedia upload link is WP:File Upload Wizard, and you'll have to fill out a specific fair use template explaining why the proposed use is indeed "fair".

It might also be possible that the logo isn't copyrightable in the first place because it doesn't meet the threshold of originality; however, this seems a somewhat borderline case and I don't feel comfortable to make that judgement call. If the Clements Center is of the opinion that the logo can't be copyrighted, the Commons would again be the place to upload it; the relevant copyright template you'd have to use for the Upload Wizard is  (including the curly brackets).

On an entirely unrelated note, your draft doesn't cite any reliable sources that are independent of the center, such as articles about it published by newspapers or reputable magazines. We need such sources both to allow our readers to verify the content and to establish that the center is notable enough for an article in the first place. Huon (talk) 20:32, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Clementscenter. 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 Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:50, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft


Hello, Clementscenter. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "William P. Clements".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 01:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)