User talk:Cyprustlye

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia. Take a look at the welcome page. To stay in Wikipedia, an article has to be about something notable, that is, of general interest. Click on Notability for an explanation of what that means, and on Notability (music) for more detail. Also, it must give independently verifiable sources. Articles that don't meet these requirements are likely to be deleted. JohnCD (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
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Copyright problems with DJ SteveRichards
Hello. Concerning your contribution, DJ SteveRichards, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, DJ SteveRichards appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. DJ SteveRichards has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:


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Please note that even if the copyright issue were resolved, the promotional tone of a company or personal website is likely to be unsuitable for an encyclopedia article, which requires a neutral point of view. JohnCD (talk) 19:45, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Message moved from article talk page
Hi,

I understand that an article has been added to Wikipedia about myself but has since been deleted due to the fact that it is a direct cope of content from my website. I'm happy to have a page on wikipedia and do not have a problem with the text being added from my site, however this is an infringement and the text needs to be changed, please advise so I can make the necessary arrangements.

The article was added by a member of staff of a company I work for in Cyprus and I will happily pass on any info should you not be able to contact them through the details supplied.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Kind Regards, Steve Richards steve@djsteverichards.com

Reply
I will reply at more length tomorrow, but most of what you need to know is in the messages above, particularly the links from the Welcome message. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:37, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am missing my promise to reply at length today. Definitely tomorrow: in the meantime WP:Autobiography is something more to read. JohnCD (talk) 23:04, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Much-promised reply - apologies again for delay. Most of what I am going to say is covered in links from the advice above, but there is so much advice and guidance around that it can be helpful to have it summarised.
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion or advertisement. That's the point of the paragraph in bold above: the text of the web page you submitted was written in a promotional tone and full of what we call peacock terms. What an encyclopedia article needs is something plain and factual - who you are, what you've done, not how wonderful you are.
 * In order to be a useful encyclopedia and not a sort of glorified Myspace, Wikipedia has clear criteria for article subjects: they have to be notable, which is not a subjective judgement - it means that the subject has "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." What is required is explained in more detail at Notability (people) and, for musical performers, WP:MUSICBIO. Substantial means more than just listings; reliable excludes Myspace and blogs; independent excludes your own website.
 * In writing about yourself, or getting someone connected to write about you, you are writing an autobiography, which is discouraged because of the conflict of interest it involves. There is good advice on editing with a conflict of interest at User:Uncle G/On notability it's worth reading it all, but in particular:
 * "When writing about subjects that are close to you, don't use your own personal knowledge of the subject, and don't cite yourself, your web site, or the subject's web site. Instead, use what is written about the subject by other people, independently, as your sources. Cite those sources in your very first edit.  If you don't have such sources, don't write."

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:00, 15 November 2009 (UTC)