User talk:HepCMO

Viral Hepatitis and the African American Community
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Viral Hepatitis and the African American Community, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.hepcmo.org/aahcv.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. Viral Hepatitis and the African American Community has been nominated for deletion.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Viral Hepatitis and the African American Community. Then you should do one of the following:
 * Make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication.
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If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Viral Hepatitis and the African American Community, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia.For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 14:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Permission issues
Who is the orginal author of the article? It is also posted on the Hepatitis C Association website . It appears that the bulk of the posting is a direct copy of:
 * B L Pearlman. Hepatitis C Virus Infection in African Americans. Clinical Infectious Diseases 42(1): 82-91. January 1, 2006.

See Copyright problems.

In addition, Wikipedia is not a site for re-publication of journal articles.

Suggestions:
 * Create a new article as suggested above. &mdash; Rewrite the salient material so that the important information is captured. (Cite sources - see WP:Verify and WP:Cite.)
 * Add the relevant material (avoiding copyright violations) to the article on Hepatitis C.

&mdash; ERcheck (talk) 15:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hep C-MO links in articles
Your additions of links to your website were removed by a Wikipedia editor. I don't know the exact reasoning, however, your addition falls under External links to be avoided on Wikipedia, item 3. Especially with the addition of your name after the link, it can easily be viewed as self-promotion.

Also see the criteria 3 under "What Wikipedia is not". Promoting a site that you are involved with can be a sticky issue. Any article created will need to fit into Wikipedia guidelines; it should be informational, not promotional.

See Notability (organizations). The issue that your organization is involved with is important; however, your particular organization might not meet criteria for inclusion.

I hope this answers your questions. Feel free to visit my talk page and post there if you have further questions.

I wish you the best with your work as it is addresses an important issue and seems to provide a needed service.

&mdash; ERcheck (talk) 15:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions
I reviewed the Hepatitis C article and found that there are two areas that it does not yet address: You might consider contributing information on these two topics to the article. (Be mindful of citation and avoiding self-promotion; but I think you could make a valuable contribution to the article.) &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 15:47, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Ethnic differences in the presentation of Hepatitic C
 * 2) Prevention efforts