User talk:Jlsbursar

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Speedy deletion nomination of Independent Schools' Bursars Association
A tag has been placed on Independent Schools' Bursars Association 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 blatant 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.

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Rewrite of Independent Schools' Bursars Association
The article Independent Schools' Bursars Association, which you drafted, included large sections copied directly from the http://www.theisba.org.uk/ site. As you can see at Copyrights this is not permitted on Wikipedia. Articles may -- indeed should -- be based on facts from reliable sources, but Wikipedia editors must write articles in their own words. When a brief quote is used, it must be indicated as such. The article could have been simply deleted because of this copyright violation. Instead i have rewritten it to remove the direct quotations, and to reference the source of the information as the ISBA web site.

There are some further problems with this article. It currently depends pretty much entirely on information from the ISBA web site. Additional sources are highly desirable. Moreover, the lack of additional sources means the article does not clearly demonstrate the "notability" of the Association. The general rule is that significant and independent coverage in reliable secondary sources is required. (See also the specializeed guideline for notability of organizations.) If you can add citations to such sources to the article, it would help matters significantly.

Please remember, in future, not to simply copy text from external websites to paste into Wikipedia articles. Doing so only makes others take time to find and remove it. However, your contributions are welcome, and thank you for adding an article to Wikipedia. DES (talk) 15:54, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of Independent Schools' Bursars Association for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Independent Schools' Bursars Association is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Independent Schools' Bursars Association until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 21:13, 26 August 2021 (UTC)