User talk:Cobrien165

Speedy deletion of Affiliated Construction Services
A tag has been placed on Affiliated Construction Services requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Mayalld (talk) 15:43, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright policy advisement regarding articles
Dear Cobrien165, regarding your contribution to PAGE, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from web sites or printed material without the express permission of the author or copyright holder. This article appears to be a direct copy from this URL: http://www.acscm.com/company.aspx?pageId=company As a copyright violation, the article has been deleted under the speedy deletion criteria.

If you choose to recreate the article, please ensure that the material is written in your own words. If you believe that using sentences from the source is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at the talk page of the new article and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GNU Free Documentation License, or released into the public domain leave a note at the talk page of the new article with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to <permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the talk page of the article.

Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:24, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I wanted to add to the above two notices, which are Wikipedia "form letters", a personal note of explanation. I recognize from the article's talk page that you are evidently an employee of the company. In order to accept text from the website, we would need verification that it is released under GFDL. Steps are included in the first notice for verifying this. The material would need to be modified regardless, as it is written in the first person and does not meet our neutrality requirements. However, as an employee of the company, you are strongly discouraged from editing an article about this company in any case. While it seemed to me in evaluating the speedy deletion nomination that the company may well meet our notability guidelines, you would be better advised to request that the article be created at "requested articles", so that a user who does not have a conflict can write it. If you do choose to create an article anyway, please make sure that you do it in your own words (or that you verify permission as above), that you remain neutral and that you provide reliable, secondary sourcing to verify information about the company. Primary sources are not sufficient for this. Please also disclose your connection at the talk page of the new article. You may wish to seek further guidance at the "conflict of interest noticeboard". I have seen at least one occasion where a user created an article in "user subpage" and requested that a contributor there review it and move it to article space if it met guidelines. As I do not volunteer there, I don't know if this is a service they do by routine. If you have general questions about Wikipedia, please feel free to ask them at the "help desk", which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)