User talk:Ionaswamptiger

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Hi, you obviously mean Iona cricket club. I deleted your recent article  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  07:13, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * because it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. You had no references, and the link in your article seemed to go to a team list for a modern team, doesn't support the text at all. It's not clear from your text why this club is notable either.
 * The last section appears to me a match report, why is this in an encyclopaedia article?
 * It was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: closest and provide the most exciting finish... good catch...  great bowling spell... has a very good future in cricket...  great start for the club... Next week Iona travels to St. Pauls to play Western Park before returning to Iona to play Garfield on 16th and 23rd of November when we look forward to seeing our growing force of  local supporters at these games
 * The match report section was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly that the text is public domain. Newspapers normally reserve copyright on their publications. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or have permission form the owner, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copied text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * The text of the song is reproduced in full, no evidence this is public domain, so another copyright violation.
 * The first part of the article was created in a single edit without wikilinks or references, and looks as if was copied from another unknown and possibly copyrighted source. Alternatively, it may be original research

You create a link just by adding article, eg Australia, you create a reference using , for example. You need a at the end to show your refs, see below.

You can upload images here, but read the copyright rules carefully, they must be your own images or PD. You haven't really dealt with the points above. Why is your club notable? Do you have verifiable references for what you claim? Can you write the article in a neutral encyclopaedic way, using your own words? On the copyright issue, it's not sufficient to claim that you wrote the newspaper article, you need to show that the text is verifiably PD to be able to use it. Also see Hampshire County Cricket Club as an example.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  08:45, 19 October 2012 (UTC)