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Nomination of Jonita Davis for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Flu (2020 film)


The article Flu (2020 film) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Film appears to fail the guidelines established under WP:NFILM."

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Donald D23  talk to me  21:39, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Thank you for creating Santos - Skin to Skin.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Oyate


A tag has been placed on Oyate 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.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2022-view/oyate_2022/. 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.

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August 2022
Hello LisaSmithNY. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Oyate, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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 * Fair question, but just to clarify things, I do NOT get paid for writing a page for films, but I want to contribute to make sure that films done by marginalized and overlooked communities (lgbtq+, native Americans, seniors, Latinos, immigrants, etc) are highlighted on wikipedia. I also write independent reviews for films, if I like a specific film and have free time. LisaSmithNY talk 16:55, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Ways to improve Oyate
Hello, LisaSmithNY,

Thank you for creating Oyate.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

"Also pinging Dr vulpes, who worked on the article. This is IMO borderline on notability, which decides what articles are suitable to be included on Wikipedia. The general guideline (WP:GNG) requires at least two independent, reliable sources that constitute significant coverage. This has 5 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with Film Threat probably RS, but the rest are iffy, with some resembling blogs/self-published sources.

Compare the film notability guideline- WP:NFILM criteria 1 is similar to the general one but requires reviews from nationally well-known critics; however, these critics are not well known, and the websites are not from major newspapers. Further, the film has won awards, though these lack Wikipedia articles and are too minor to pass the WP:NFILM criteria 3, which requires the win of a major award. Still, thanks for your work!"

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