User talk:Mattbandrew

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Speedy deletion nomination of Pyxis foundation


A tag has been placed on Pyxis foundation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can 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 a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Chris the Paleontologist (talk • contribs) 22:01, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Pyxis Foundation getting deleted
Help me I was sent a message that the page I just created, Pyxis Foundation may not conform to Wikipedia standards. I have no intention of causing a disturbance and would just like to know what I should change in order for the page to stay. Thank you. Mattbandrew (talk) 22:31, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Matt. There were a number of problems with the page. The speedy deletion tagging was under two sections of the criteria for speedy deletion, section A7, which is for articles that fail to state a subject's importance, and section G11, which is for articles which are blatantly promotional. What you need to understand is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, by definition a tertiary source, a reference work that should properly only contains articles on subjects that the wider world has taken note of by publishing material about the subject. This is not a measure of merit. The organization you wrote about may be wonderful, but the article did not contain much indication that the world has taken note of it (the best way to do this is by citation to reliable sources that are independent of the subject and which discuss the subject in some detail—this also meets our verifiactin requirements).The article was also not written in an encyclopedic manner (have you ever seen an encyclopedia article that said "we did X" or "we did y"?) though that is fixable. But the reason I deleted it is because the material was as a blatant copyright violation, having been copied and pasted from the foundation's website. Now, you may very well be the person who wrote the material, and if you are, then you can release the copyright, but until you do so in a verifiable way, even if that material is suitable as content for than article, it cannot remain. Please see Donating copyrighted materials.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Problems included:
 * It was copied from the Foundation's website. Wikipedia cannot accept copyright material, and it will be deleted at sight, unless a formal copyright release has been made - see Copy-paste and WP:Copyrights. Asserting permission to use is not enough.
 * It is not often worth making a copyright release, because (as in this case) material from a website is usually written in a chatty, promotional, first-person style quite unsuitable for an encyclopedia article.
 * It gave no independent references to show that the foundation was notable enough to have an encyclopedia article. "Notability" is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? Being a Good Cause does not provide exemption from the notability requirement - see WP:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause.
 * See User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard, WP:Your first article and the WP:FAQ/Organizations for more advice, and if you are connected with the Foundation see WP:Conflict of interest.
 * Regards, JohnCD (talk) 23:38, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Quad News (December 13)
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Quad News concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Quad News, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Quad News


Hello Mattbandrew. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "The Quad News".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Rankersbo (talk) 07:32, 17 July 2014 (UTC)