User talk:MrEvanRoss

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Scott Galvin
The "Scott Galvin" page I have created multiple times for a local politician who is running for congress keeps getting deleted. What am I doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MrEvanRoss (talk • contribs) 15:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Evan I notice that your first days on Wikipedia have been a rather rough ride, and wanted to give you a couple of pointers (I was writing this in parallel to your request). Wikipedia has a couple of hard rules to protect it, and a number of principles that need to be followed so that it remains a useful resource. One of the hard rules is that (practically) all the content on Wikipedia must be licensed under a free license (CC-by-SA). The content you posted just now in the Scott Galvin article was almost entirely published at http://www.scott-galvin.com/bio.html before, and that site marks its content as copyrighted. While it's possible to ask the copyright holder to release that content under a compatible, free license, I've yet to find an official page of a politician that is really worded neutrally, so that it is appropriate to use it in an encyclopedic article about the topic (see WP:NPOV). With a perfectly neutral article, we say that a reader should not know whether the author had a favorable or an unfavorable opinion about the topic. That was certainly not the case here. First of all, I would that you have a look at a couple of our FAQ and guideline pages:
 * Some editing guideline sections at WP:BFAQ, WP:BFAQ, and WP:BFAQ (targeted at organizations, but they apply here too)
 * The inclusion guidelines for politicians, WP:POLITICIAN
 * If you are convinced that the topic you chose, Scott Galvin, passes the latter guideline, I will gladly help you recreating an article on him. You'll have to work with me though: at first, I would ask you to show that he passes the inclusion guideline by listing some reliable sources (like newspaper articles) here that discuss the topic in detail (Two links I tried from his News page were no longer functioning). The simple fact that he is a candidate for the US congress is not enough to pass that guideline. Feel free to ask me any questions here, but please hold off recreating the article right away for a fourth time. Kind regards, Amalthea  16:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)