User talk:Norteyt

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Duxford Aviation Society


A tag has been placed on The Duxford Aviation Society requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Duxford aviation society


A tag has been placed on Duxford aviation society, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page 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 an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to 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 tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance 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. JDDJS (talk) 18:06, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Deletion
Sorry, but Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and so on are social networking. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. Here, we are concerned with things like verifiability, notability and copyright. Text that's published is copyright. It may come into the public domain by its age, or by being released as public domain. Other things can be licensed under Creative Commons (as Wikipedia is). The society could license the text under CC - but it wouldn't be worth the effort. It's too promotional. That's the other thing we worry about - advertising. Most societies look for publicity (and I've just told the chairman of one that I don't mind taking over the website pro tem, but I ain't gonna do the publicity...). If you could establish that the DAS is notable (by our definition - see WP:GNG and possibly WP:CORP) and prove it with reliable independent sources WP:RS, then an article could be possible (so long as it fitted WP:NPOV - neutral point of view). It is a bit different from MySpace, isn't it? Trouble is, people hear the 'free to edit' bit and don't look further. We've got 3.5 million articles (give or take), hundreds of thousands of editors, and 1500 administrators (give or take). We've got a lot of policies, all discussed and modified by the community. We get a lot of articles that don't fit. Yours. One today that said "Joshua is awesome!" (he obviously isn't). (I'm not kidding - I invented "Shawn is awesome!" as an example but Joshua was for real.) Ones selling all sorts of things from good class books down to ones selling herbal 'Viagra' (who is daft enough to buy THAT?). I don't like deleting ones like yours, or the ones that are memorials to someone important to a family (but to no-one else). I've deleted over 11000 pages in the last 10 months. Sorry (again..) to have gone on so long. I hope you can see where we're at from it. Good luck with the society and its work. Peridon (talk) 21:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)