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Speedy deletion nomination of Patrick McGuinness (poet)


A tag has been placed on Patrick McGuinness (poet) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I  decided to rescue it, because he's clearly notable. What I did is removed the entire copied section, leaving only the introductory section and the list of publications. Now, go work on it properly. Discuss the 3 aspects of his career as a scholar, poet, and (I think) novelist, give references providing substantial coverage from  3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. Published reviews of his books are what usually does best. Take nothing from a web site, don't even paraphrase it, but rewrite everything from scratch in your own words. See WP:FIRST for some basic information about format.  DGG ( talk ) 02:18, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

I apologize for my mistake due to inexperience, I thank you very much for rescuing the article, now I see where I went wrong and will work accordingly. And many thanks for your suggestions.

Giograz (talk) 11:01, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks again, David Goodman, for your help and advice Giograz (talk) 07:57, 11 September 2011 (UTC)