User talk:Empowerpr

Laura Berman
Hi there. I had to delete the bulk of your article on Dr. Laura Berman, because it was a word-for-word copyright violation of this page. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted content. I appreciate all the effort it must have taken to place all those references within the text, and I encourage you to try again, this time using original content. Also, bear in mind that Wikipedia is not a place for advertising, as much of the article was written in an overly-promotional tone. Particularly, some of your links went directly to websites that were selling Dr. Berman's books, and that's a violation of this guideline. Also, on your rewrite, please ensure that your references are clear, and directly support the claims made in the article. I noticed that some of the links went to some web pages that did not directly back-up the claims made. For instance, your references regarding awards won went to the awards pages for various institutions, but those specific pages did not mention that Dr. Berman had won those awards. That being said, I believe the subject to be more than notable enough for a Wikipedia article, and once again I greatly encourage you to have another swing at it. Cheers, Steamroller Assault (talk) 23:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)