User talk:Mark94066

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== Your submission at Articles for creation: Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club (November 7) ==  Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Chrissymad was:

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CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  20:17, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club


A tag has been placed on Draft:Blue Knights International Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://www.blueknights.org/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) 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. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

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It is very disheartening to put in so much work for nothing.
It seems like my rejected article could have been edited or rejected and returned for editing, instead of deleting it outright.

I give up. You guys have this little empire and create these unattainable goals to keep people out.

I was not trying to promote the club, just wanted it added to the listing and an article was needed to keep the list addition from becoming an orphan. I simply inserted the most basic info on the club and it's composition, founding year and current membership.

I don't see how there was any type of perspective issue. How do you possibly have articles for the other 50 clubs listed, without them being considered promotional?

Here we have a club that has been in existence for 43 years and has over 20k members in 29 countries.. yet, according to Wikipedia, it does not exist. Mark94066 (talk) 03:14, 8 November 2017 (UTC)