User talk:Jonathan025

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (March 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Eagleash were:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Eagleash (talk) 19:08, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:OpenMBEE


A tag has been placed on Draft:OpenMBEE 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.openmbee.org/about.html. 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 deleted 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. GPL93 (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Advice on various matters
In addition to the problems mentioned above, there are several other matters which it may help you if I explain.
 * On the subject of copyright, already mentioned above, I put a number of quotes from the pages you created into Google searches, and every one of them showed up on other web pages. Clearly the whole of what you wrote, or very nearly the whole of it, was copied from one or more other sources.
 * Wikipedia does not host pages on behalf of groups, businesses, or other organisations. There is no place for such expressions as "We welcome contributions and contributors of all kinds...", as a Wikipedia article does not speak on behalf of whoever "we" are.
 * Wikipedia policy does not permit editing for promotional purposes, which was clearly the case for what you wrote. (And just to save you from wasting time posting the same answer to that which has been posted thousands of times by people in your situation, that means promotion of any kind, not only promotion for commercial gain.)
 * If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way.
 * Please don't create duplicate copies of a page under different titles. Doing so serves no useful purpose at al, and causes problems such as making it difficult for editors to keep track of changes. Especially don't submit duplicate copies of a page as "articles for creation", as doing so takes up time of reviewers, who instead of spending time and effort on reviewing a submission which has already been reviewed, could have spent the same time on more useful work, such as reviewing submissions which have not yet been reviewed.
 * My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. Obviously that advice is unlikely to appeal to you if your only interest is in using Wikipedia to publicise your project, but in that case Wikipedia is not the right place for you anyway. JBW (talk) 19:55, 29 March 2020 (UTC)