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Speedy Deletion of Children's Futures
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the "Help Desk". You can also leave a message on my talk page. — Cactus Writer |   needles  13:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Children's Futures
Hi, Rgunn03. I received your e-mail asking why the article on Children's Futures was deleted. First, the article you posted was a direct copy-and-paste from the organization's website. All the text at that website is protected by copyright and Wikipedia cannot accept any text which violates copyright law. It is illegal. There is more at Copyright violations should you have any confusion about this. The bottomline is that all articles need to be written from scratch -- use your own words. The articles also need to be referenced to independent reliable sources, such as newspapers, magazines, books, journals, etc. Sourcing an article only to an organization's website is invalid because that is not an independent source. (And by the way, YouTube is also not a reliable source of information). It is equally important that an article about a company or organization is non-promotional, is not not seeking publicity, sales or donations, meaning SPAM -- but rather is written in a simple factual manner. For help in creating an article, read Your first article -- there are lots of helpful tips there on creating an article for an encyclopedia. If you have any further questions, let me know. Good luck. — Cactus Writer |   needles  12:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Children's Futures
A tag has been placed on Children's Futures, 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 as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, 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. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you.  Teapot  george Talk  15:47, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Removing Speedy at Children's Futures
Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles you created. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please do the following:
 * Place  on the page. Please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag(s).
 * Make your case on the article's .

Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. - SDPatrolBot (talk) 18:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)