User talk:MarkFern

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U.S. Ambassadors
A tag has been placed on U.S. Ambassadors, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of U.S. Ambassadors and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngall talk 20:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

World Affairs Council of Washington, DC
What you don't appear to be getting is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an advertising medium or a provider of free web space. Even leaving the copyright issue aside, an encyclopedia article should maintain a neutral point of view and not be promotional in tone. For this reason, we strongly discourage the creation and editing of articles where the editor has a conflict of interest. A page titled "U.S. Ambassadors" needs to about U.S. ambassadors in general, not merely about the ones connected with your organziation. (Actually, such an article already exists at Ambassadors of the United States.) I hope you will explore the provided links to Wikipedia policies, procedures and guidelines before you contribute further. Please don't hesitat to contact me on my talk page if you have further questions. Thank you. --Finngall talk 20:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If you want to keep this page up, you'll need to take a look at Requesting copyright permission. You might also want to read our guidelines on conflicts of interest. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 21:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * If, as you claim, the content at World Affairs Council of Washington, DC is not a copyright violation, you will need to have the following text placed on https://www.worldaffairsdc.org/mission.php - "This page is released under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2". Alternatively, you can send an email from an address ending in @worldaffairsdc.org to permissions-en@wikimedia.org to say the same. Please don't restore the material without doing one of these things first. Thanks. Stifle (talk) 21:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Because the copyright concerns were not addressed, the article was deleted, and I created a new, barebones stub with original prose.


 * On the article's talk page, you said that it 'needed to be maintained with (your) updated information'. The article is not yours. There are articles on other branches of your organization that don't have these problems: see Category:World Affairs Councils. We don't want to be rude or insensitive, but we ask that you please respect what Wikipedia is not and edit articles within our guidelines and policies. Thank you. Krakatoa  Katie  00:24, 23 April 2008 (UTC)