User talk:Peteok

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ascension Lutheran School


A tag has been placed on Ascension Lutheran School requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.ascensionschool.org/about/. 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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Help request
The text I placed there was the standard marketing text for the school, which doesn't have a page yet. I just started working with the school to expand it's online presence. I plan to get them to expand on the page and write more, but it needed something to start everything off. It seems needless to write new text to paraphrase the text that we already have. What do people usually do when starting a page for an existing organization? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peteok (talk • contribs) 04:31, 29 December 2013‎


 * I have moved this down, because new contributions are customarily placed at the bottom of talk pages, so as to keep the conversation in order. Welcome to Wikipedia, but I can see there is a lot that I need to explain.


 * Copyright: when you contribute something to Wikipedia, you agree to release it under the CC-BY-SA license. It says so just above the "Save page" button. That gives permission to any reader to copy, modify and re-use it for any purpose including commercial. Therefore, Wikipedia cannot accept text copied in from another source without explicit permission from the actual copyright holder.


 * There is a procedure for giving permission, described at WP:DCM, but it is very seldom worth doing that, because material written for other purposes is usually promotional or otherwise unsuitable for an encyclopedia article.


 * You say that your page was "the standard marketing text for the school", and indeed it was obviously written to "sell" the school, full of PR-speak phrases and what we call "peacock terms": "a strong preparatory academic curriculum... an experienced and caring faculty... graduates are highly sought out... prestigious private schools ... excellent foundation in study skills... " That would be enough to get it speedily deleted, quite apart from the copyright issue: Wikipedia is absolutely not to be used for marketing, advertising or promotion of any kind, and is extremely resistant to any attempt to use it that way. A Wikipedia article requires a neutral point of view: no opinions, no unsupported glowing adjectives of praise, just plain facts, neutrally stated and cited to reliable sources.


 * Because Wikipedia is required to be neutral, editing on subjects with which you have a connection is strongly discouraged. As you are connected with the school, please read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. In brief, don't edit directly, but you may make a draft and submit it to WP:Articles for creation.


 * Read WP:Your first article for general advice, and note that Wikipedia is selective abut subjects for articles: you need references to significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources to establish WP:Notability.


 * By now you are thinking that this is more difficult than you expected, but the point is that although Wikipedia is indeed the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, that does not mean they can post whatever they like; in particular, it is not a place for people, or organizations, to "tell the world" about themselves. There are many "notice-board" sites like Myspace and Facebook for that, but Wikipedia is different. For more background, see User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard.


 * Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:10, 29 December 2013 (UTC)