User talk:Drsjr

Life Decisions International
I'm writing to try to explain a little bit how wikipedia works and why the article you created, Life Decisions International, was deleted. The article was deleted for three main reasons. First of all, it was listed as failing WP:CSD A7 an article about a group "that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant." But more importantly, the article failed WP:CSD G12. Text was taken verbatim and copy and pasted from their official website. On top of that, the article failed WP:CSD G11, as it was not an encyclopedia article, but instead basically a copy of their mission found here. Please understand what wikipedia is and what wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not free webspace, nor free advertising, nor is wikipedia myspace.

If you think that the organization meets our notability requirements found at WP:ORG, then first and foremost you need to find information from multiple sources, and these sources have to be reliable, and independent from the organization (that means blog posts are out, and that means press releases copied on other pro-life sites are also out). Once you do that, you need to write an encyclopedia article about the organization, using information primarily from the independent sources you found, supplemented by the official webpage. You are not allowed to ever copy and paste copyrighted material from other websites. You have to write things in your own words, with the occasional quotes. You also have to keep in mind WP:NPOV, and make sure you are writing neutrally.

If you have any questions about this, please feel free to ask further. Hope this helps, and good luck.-Andrew c [talk] 04:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)