User talk:Ltgpen

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Hello, Ltgpen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Greg Rekus, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Greg Rekus


A tag has been placed on Greg Rekus requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Beloved Freak  18:29, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Clarification on deletion of Greg Rukus
Hello! Saw you'd left a note on the talk page, so hope this will help to clarify the situation.

We do have a mechanism by which contributors can make available material to which they own the copyright. Do keep in mind that if you wrote something for an employer, the employer, not you, owns the copyright to the material. Also be aware that if you choose to release copyrighted material for use on Wikipedia, you must release it under the CC-BY-SA license. In a nutshell, that means you're allowing anyone in the world to copy, use, and modify the material for any purpose (including commercial purposes), so long as they do not change the license and do attribute the author. You would have no grounds to prohibit anyone from using the work so long as they follow those two conditions.

In this case, however, there are other issues that would prevent the article's acceptance anyway. Firstly, it was clearly promotional. While one would expect an artist's biography on his or her own website to promote that artist, Wikipedia articles must be written in a strictly neutral tone. Secondly, the subject of any article must have substantial coverage from multiple reliable sources that are unaffiliated with and do not have an interest in promoting the subject. If such coverage exists, this artist may still be a suitable topic for an article. If not, regrettably, they would not and we could not accept the article under any circumstances. We take sourcing requirements especially seriously when writing biographies of living people. We also discourage writing articles on subjects one is closely affiliated with, as that makes it extremely difficult to maintain neutrality.

Hope that helps to clarify. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions. Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:45, 29 October 2011 (UTC)