User talk:Kmeadow2

Speedy deletion nomination of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning


A tag has been placed on The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.cjsotl-rcacea.ca/. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Copyright violations and promotion
I had to delete the article for The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for two reasons. The first is that it contained copyrighted text and the second is that said text was incredibly promotional in tone.

We cannot accept copyrighted text or works on Wikipedia unless a ticket is filed at WP:ORTS that gives Wikipedia permission to use the material. However even if you were to do that you'd still have to re-write the majority of the text because it was ultimately written to promote the journal. This is the reason why it's almost always better to write the material in your own words since even if permission is granted, we wouldn't be able to use the material anyway. The thing to remember is that while the journal content is open access, this may not necessarily mean that the description of the journal is fair game unless it is explicitly stated on the website. Even then that's still not entirely something you can use on here for the aforementioned promotional issues.

If you do want to make a new article, I'd recommend only including the basics about the journal. Do not include a submission guideline- this is not only considered to be promotional but it's also not the type of material that Wikipedia tends to include in articles about journals. The aims and scopes of the journal can be included, but it should be dramatically scaled down and should not contain promotional language. Really, the only part you would need to include is some version of "scholarship that addresses the teaching and learning interests of universities and colleges across Canada". The rest of the section is pretty much a more promotional way of putting this and asking for submissions. You can discuss the editorial process, but that's pretty much already covered by the phrase "peer reviewed, trans-disciplinary, open-access electronic journal". Listing specific editors isn't really a good idea since that makes the article potentially dated because it's inevitable that editors will come and go at some point in time. Because it's fairly unusual for journals to gain a ton of coverage that discusses them in-depth, most journal articles are pretty short by necessity (see Accounting History) and some are even worked into the main article for the organization that represents them.

Now something else to take into consideration is that you really didn't entirely show how the journal would pass WP:NJOURNALS. You didn't show where the journal was indexed anywhere or its impact factor, two things that are usually some of the easiest ways to show notability for the journal, or any of the other criteria. If you do make this article again you will still need to show notability or it may run the risk of getting deleted for a lack of notability in some way. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  10:55, 7 April 2015 (UTC)