User talk:Kenp100

Speedy deletion nomination of IAMFortress
Hello Kenp100,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged IAMFortress for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:36, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Hey!
Hey, Kenp! Sorry for being a bit abrupt in the above message. Let me go into a little more detail about the problems with the article. First, as it stands right now, it's a copyright violation. You see, the text is copied and pasted directly from another website, which reserves the copyrights to the text. This is a problem for us, because Wikipedia requires all its text to be available under the terms of the CC-BY-SA license. The legal details aren't really important (and I'm not a lawyer, so I can't really say I know all of them!); the important thing is that this license is what enables us to keep using, modifying, and redistributing Wikipedia. So, any text that we use must have a similar license. The text you copied doesn't, so we can't use it. Keep in mind that simple permission of use isn't enough to satisfy the copyright; because Wikipedia articles are freely modifiable and redistributable, we need license to be able to do the same with any new additions, and this license requirement is the only thing that will let us do that.

Now, the copyright isn't the only issue with the article, by any means. Because of where it's copied, the article is written like an advertisement. This is not allowed on Wikipedia, because we strive to provide a neutral point of view on our articles, using only material that has been verified in independent, reliable sources. The text in the article, even if it was released under the appropriate license, would still fail these criteria, so it would still be unacceptable. Wikipedia is not a place for promotion of products, companies, or anything else, really.

Now, don't worry about it too much! Lots of people have their first articles deleted; it's pretty common. Wikipedia's rules are complex, and tricky to master, so we understand that people come to Wikipedia without a clear idea of what we try to do. Nobody will hold this against you if you learn from this experience. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on my talk page, or you can try asking the Teahouse, which is a place for new users to get questions answered in a friendly environment. Thanks! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 19:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Some more notes: Wikipedia is not a web host or advertising service. No person or company has a "right" to a Wikipedia article, even if their competitors have one.  The acceptability of an article on Wikipedia is based on notability.  In a nutshell, notability means that any subject of an article must have significant coverage of themselves in multiple reliable sources that are independent of both each other and the subject itself.  Oracle is a multi-billion-dollar corporation with a high-profile CEO, so of course it has the coverage required for an article.  I can't say whether Joshua Tree is notable or not, because I honestly haven't looked at the sources, but that's not the current problem with the article anyway.


 * Finally, let me leave a not about conflicts of interest. As I mentioned above, Wikipedia strives to maintain a neutral point of view.  Editors with a conflict of interest--that is, people who are editing articles to which they have a close connection, like the companies that employ them--are strongly discouraged from making edits to those articles directly, as it is nearly impossible to determine neutrality, and even things like notability or verifiability, with such a strong conflict of interest.  Direct editing by COI editors is not verboten per se, but I would say that it's almost never a good idea.  Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 19:11, 4 October 2012 (UTC)