User talk:Johnccmay

Speedy deletion of Career Academies UK
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Copyright violation in John May (Scouting)
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John May (Scouting)
This appears to be a direct copy of this and so is a copyright violation. However, it seems that you may be the subject of this article and hence the copyright holder. For this to be appropriate on wikipedia you would have to release theo material on your web page under a free license or into the public domain. Please ask me or other members of WikiProject Scouting if you need help. Ignore the bot warning above. I added a tag for speedy deletion and then removed it. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  00:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Career Academies UK
John, if you can convince me that this organisation is notable, I can restore it and help you to make it stick. However, I am not convinced at present that it is notable. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  00:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi John, I will reply here, although I prefer to keep the discussion in one place. Please add your reply here, not on my talk page. Your talk page is on my watch list so I will see it. It looks as if "Career Academies UK" may be notable enough to recover and work on, but we need to see whether there are any third party sources. In essence, notability in wikipedia terms means "have other people in reliable sources noticed it?". Can you provide such sources? I will look at it further during the week. The article on yourself is more urgent, as it could be deleted if others notice it is a copy of your web page. You may also be seen as having a conflict of interest in editing an article about yourself. This is not encouraged although it is not banned. You can edit where you have a conflict of interest, but you need to be careful. If in doubt put the material on the talk page and ask others to consider adding it. Again, with your article, we need third party sources who have noticed you. Isn't there a press release about your appointment to WOSM? Your appointment came to my attention when researching Scouting in London to rewrite that article, and I think there was something. You can put your web page under a free license or we can rewrite the article using that and other sources, but not copying your wen page. I recommend the later.

Have you seen WikiProject Scouting and its various subpages. There are good people from all over the world hanging out there who can help. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Brian, many thanks for all your support on this. Firstly, Career Academies UK. The following third party comments may be of help: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/14/4 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article1719273.ece http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/speeches/search_detail.cfm?ID=797

Now, me. I would be delighted if someone else were to pen the biog of me, but as the only source would be likely to be the biog that is freely available to people to download from my website (which they use generally to introduce me when I speak in public) I suspect it would not look very different. However, perhaps the two media releases from The Scout Association might help: http://www.scouts.org.uk/news_view.php?news_id=88 http://www.scouts.org.uk/johnmay — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnccmay (talk • contribs)

John, I'll try to look at this sometime this week. Possibly Chris will look at your article. He is responsible for a lot of articles on World Committee members and similar. Please sign your comments with ~ even though it is on your own talk page. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  21:25, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Scouting WikiProject
Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Do you have an image we could have your permission to use?
Hello! Do you have an image we could have your permission to use in your article? Thanks, Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea. It would have to be released under a free license or into the public domain. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  21:04, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll provide a photo, released into the public domain, as soon as I can, but I should probably wait until I have a photo of me in my official World Committee uniform. Perhaps you could then tell me how I submit it (and how I officially release it into public domain too!)--Johnccmay (talk) 21:44, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, just let me, or Chris, know when you are ready. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  22:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've seen pics of you! Congratulations! Now let's get one on here!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

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