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District of Columbia Arts Center
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of District of Columbia Arts Center, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.dcartscenter.org/aboutus.htm.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

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Speedy deletion nomination of District of Columbia Arts Center
Hello LibbyJones1853,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged District of Columbia Arts Center for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, 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. Trivialist (talk) 22:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Copyright violation and promotion
I've deleted the page because ultimately the page is still considered to be a copyright violation. The Center can file a ticket through WP:ORTS that gives Wikipedia permissions to use the text (as that is the only way to give Wikipedia permission to use text), but there is still another issue that would make the page inappropriate for Wikipedia. The problem with using text from another source is that in most cases the text is too promotional to be used, as is the case here. I'm highlighting a few problematic phrases that especially stood out:
 * The District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC) serves the Washington, DC area by presenting high-caliber, challenging works, encouraging professionalism among artists, and by providing a forum for education and cultural exchange.
 * We decided to try to create a structure in which artists could work as a collective and perhaps regain, or even experience for the first time, a support network that would stimulate their work and give them access to artists of like minds
 * The Curatorial Initiative reflects DCAC's commitment to curatorial practice as an integral part of supporting emerging and under recognized artists
 *  Pinder’s work provides personal and social commentary in accessible and familiar format.

These are just a few phrases, but they're indicative of how promotional the article was as a whole. This is pretty much the unsaid thing about taking text nearly verbatim from another website: even if the content is given up as fair use it is almost always guaranteed to be so promotional that you'd have to re-write the entire article from scratch in order to meet Wikipedia's WP:NPOV guidelines. Basically, you can file a ticket but the article would still be inevitably deleted as promotion, so the only thing to do here is to re-write the article from scratch.

Then there's a third issue: the article lacked coverage in reliable sources (WP:RS) that are independent of the center itself. The center's website is a WP:PRIMARY source that cannot show notability in any circumstance. It can be used to back up small, WP:TRIVIAL details, but it cannot show or establish notability. A good example of a reliable source would be say, a news article that talked about the center in-depth and isn't just a brief, trivial mention or routine notification of an event. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:00, 22 November 2014 (UTC)