User talk:Lissheff

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Draft:Street Food Around the World (TV show)
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Draft:Street Food Around the World (TV show), and it appears to include material copied directly from http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=280048.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Street Food Around the World (TV show)


A tag has been placed on Draft:Street Food Around the World (TV show) 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://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=280048. 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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Conflict of interest
Hello, Lissheff. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Draft:Street Food Around the World (TV show), you may have a conflict of interest.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  22:18, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

"I intern with the people who own the rights to the show"
Right there, that's a stopper. That's when you should not be further writing about this show or any others that this company produces. Why is that so hard for you to understand? -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  11:55, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The people for whom you are interning, have assigned you to do something you are not supposed to be doing here. I'm sorry, but I don't know any more polite way to say that. If these shows are genuinely notable, then somebody without a conflict of interest can compile articles about them from reliable, impartial third-party sources such as newspapers and magazines which have reported about the shows. The plagiarism issue is way, way below this in importance, which is why folks have not been addressing it. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  14:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Some advice
Hello Lissheff. I saw your query on Orangemike's talk page. The source you allegedly copied (thetvdb.com) appears to have itself been a copy of the Wikipedia article Street food around the world which was deleted in April of this year for lack of evidence demonstrating its notability. Here's a copy of the deleted Wikipedia article on Speedy Deletion Wiki (an independent site that uploads articles about to be deleted on Wikipedia). Did you or possibly another intern create the Wikipedia article that was deleted in April? If so, that would account for the similarity of text. It's a case of "backwards copying". In any case, the material on thetvdb.com has a license (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0) which allows it to be freely copied to Wikipedia as does the article on Speedy Deletion Wiki. So your draft should not have been deleted on grounds of copyright violation.

Unfortunately, these mistakes happen sometimes, and there are grounds for getting your draft restored if it was deleted solely on that basis. Having said that, both Orangemike and the Panda are right in that it would be better for this article not to be written by someone with a conflict of interest. I notice that it appeared not to have any independent sources attesting to its notability, i.e. reviews in the mainstream press. The draft will never get anywhere without those. Also, you must realize that whenever you write anything on Wikipedia, you cannot "protect" it from being used by other websites or publishers. By clicking the "Save page" button, you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License. This means that anyone may re-use it, alter it, or even re-use it for commercial gain provided they attribute Wikipedia as the source. You should also read the guidance at Terms of use/FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure. Hope this helps. Voceditenore (talk) 16:24, 24 July 2014 (UTC)