User talk:Dennis Wa

May 2017
Hello, Dennis, and welcome to contributing to Wikipedia. I hope you have a successful time here. Unfortunately, however, there have been problems with your first contributions, and I am explaining what those problems were, in the hope of helping you to know better what sort of thing will be acceptable in any future editing.

The most important problem was the fact that the content of the page Draft:University of Education Karlsruhe which you created was a copy of text on another web page, which we cannot accept for copyright reasons. Even if you are the copyright owner, we need proof that you have licensed the content for free re-use in accordance with Wikipedia's licensing terms. We cannot assume that such licensing has been done just because someone has created a Wikipedia account has posted it here. Because of this copyright problem, the page has been deleted.

If you are the copyright holder I could give you a link to instructions on how to release content under a suitable free license, allowing anyone in the world to re-use it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, subject to attribution to Wikipedia, as is required. However, I don't think doing so would be helpful to you, as the result would just be that you put time and effort into doing that, only to see your work deleted again, as it is far too promotional in tone to be acceptable as a Wikipedia article. In fact, it is almost never acceptable to post text copied from a company's or other organisation's web site to Wikipedia, even on the rare occasions when there is no copyright problem, as an organisation's own web site almost always seeks to give a favourable impression of that organisation, which is incompatible with the requirement that Wikipedia covers it from a neutral point of view.

My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 09:09, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: University of Education Karlsruhe (July 20)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:19, 20 July 2017 (UTC)