User talk:Melissa McLawhorn Houston

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you.Deb (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Melissa McLawhorn Houston


The article Melissa McLawhorn Houston has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable biography by a User with a clear COI

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JMHamo (talk) 07:40, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa McLawhorn Houston (March 14)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

The comment they left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Robert McClenon (talk) 14:39, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. With regard to your query, although I can see that using her name creates the impression that it's an autobiography, you should NOT use a corporate name. If you do, all your accounts will be indefinitely blocked since you can only edit as an individual. If you create an account it must be a personal one, although you are not obliged to use your own name (I don't)

However, your article has major problems. I deleted your article because
 * the article was a copyright violation of this page. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. The copied page is labelled © 2016 The State of Oklahoma. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required.
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that she meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims. Your only reference was to the organisation's page, clearly not independent third-party, and the text was probably written by her anyway
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: an experienced administrator... extensive knowledge... considerable experience... in-depth background... played a key role in criminal justice reform efforts... She is also a frequent speaker on the impact of terrorism...
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest when editing this article, and you must declare it. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that she is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

This article has been created and deleted five times now as a draft or in mainspace. If I'd seen that before you contacted me, I would have protected the article and prevented further recreation, especially as you have ignored numerous copyright infringement warnings. As it is, you need to carefully read what I have said above because the next attempt is likely to result in an admin protecting anyway if you don't get it right. Let me know if anything I have said is unclear, and look at other biographies such as Barack Obama Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:36, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I should add that you don't need the level of detail or the fancy reference templates in the Obama featured article, it's just to give you an idea of layout and tone Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:42, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ''It appears that you have created multiple copies of an article that you been deleted for copyright violation. Wikipedia takes copyright violation very seriously. Please read our copyright violation policy one more time, or two more times. If you have questions about it, please ask at the Teahouse. Editors who have a history of copyright violation are frequently blocked. It doesn't matter if your employer owns the copyright. You are still not permitted to post your own copyright materials unless you release the copyright explicitly under CC-BY-SA or into the public domain, and those would prevent you from enforcing the copyright under most circumstances. Please stop posting copyrighted materials, and stop relying on the assumption that your ownership will help y ou.'' Robert McClenon (talk) 15:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)