User talk:Hefrost

Speedy deletion nomination of Miley Tucker-Frost


A tag has been placed on Miley Tucker-Frost requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miley_Tucker-Frost. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material 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.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Cactus Writer (talk) 21:50, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:National Capital Presbytery Global Mission Network


A tag has been placed on Draft:National Capital Presbytery Global Mission Network requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.thepresbytery.org/work-presbytery/global-mission-team. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material 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.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Cactus Writer (talk) 21:56, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve Washington, DC National Capital Presbytery Global Missions Outreach
Hi, I'm Bri. Hefrost, thanks for creating Washington, DC National Capital Presbytery Global Missions Outreach!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This article is sourced entirely to the organization which is not allowed for an article to continue on Wikipedia. Please find reliable third-party sources for it, or it may be deleted in the future.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

☆ Bri (talk) 02:55, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Bri -- Sorry for not getting back in touch earlier. The people who I'm working with on this page decided it was too difficult to work with Wikipedia in an area where there was no fundamental copyright issues (we had permission to use the language from another web site on our Wiki draft). Plus, we didn't want to continue to argue why our material was "important" enough to get over Wikipedia's threshold. So, I'll continue as a donor to Wikipedia, but this experience with it has been frustrating and disappointing. Hefrost (talk) 14:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
A page I created was recently taken down, and I can't determine why. How do I do this? The page is "Miley Frost" Please help me with...

Hefrost (talk) 07:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * As you were told above, it's because it was copy-pasted from somewhere else. Wikipedia will not accept copy-pasted text in virtually all circumstances. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 07:29, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your helpful comment. So, where do I find the text of the Wiki article to adjust the text so that it's not pasted from elsewhere? Thank you. Hefrost (talk) 07:34, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You don't. Copy-pasted content is removed upon discovery. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 07:49, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Ouch!! This is really unfortunate, as a significant amount of time went into the creation of the text that Wikipedia deleted, apart from the fact that I created the original text that used in the Wikipedia article, so there's no fundamental copyright issue. Now I have to start over again, and I am not at all happy to have lost this time....  Maybe Wikipedia would say "Well, that's too bad. There're no retrievable copies of things we delete, and that's one of the risks you assume in working with us on our site." Is that Wikipedia's basic approach in such circumstances? Hefrost (talk) 14:25, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, there is. Wikipedia uses CC-By-SA 3.0 and the GFDL, permissive copyright licences which are both irrevocable. As such, even if you wrote the content you're copy-pasting, it's under full copyright unless you explicitly released it under a licence similar or identical to one or both of them when you first published it. The basic assumption is that you're writing content from scratch, not copying content from other sources. —Jeremy v^_^v  Bori! 08:30, 12 January 2018 (UTC)