User talk:Rjosephkearns

August 2017
It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. Also, even on the rare occasions when there is no copyright problem, content from an organisation or business's own website is not usually suitable for a Wikipedia article, as it is almost invariably written in terms designed to promote the organisation and give a good impression of it, rather than presenting it from a neutral point of view, as required for a Wikipedia article. Such promotional editing is not permitted by Wikipedia policy.

The article Rise Above Fest was a copy of content at http://riseabovefest.com/about/ which contains the copyright notice "© 2017 Rise Above Fest", with no suggestion of licensing for free reuse. The content was also unambiguously written for the purpose of promoting the event. For both those reasons, the article has been deleted from Wikipedia.

You should also look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines to see what kind of thing is considered acceptable as the subject of an article. My searches failed to provide evidence that Rise Above Fest satisfies those guidelines, and if it doesn't then any article about it, no matter how it might be written, is likely to be deleted, in which case any work put into it would be wasted.

It must be disheartening to see work you have done deleted almost immediately. My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to introduce inappropriate pages to Wikipedia, as you did at Rise Above Fest, you may be blocked from editing. If you need guidance on how to create appropriate pages, try using the Article Wizard. I put a considerable amount of time and effort into drafting and editing the message above to try to help you, believing that you had come here in good faith, not knowing about the issues which made the article you created unsuitable. You can perhaps imagine how I feel about having put that work in now that I see you chose to completely ignore it and re-create the article with the same unacceptable text. Please note that copyright is a matter of law, not just of Wikipedia policy, and editors who persist in infringing copyright after being warned are blocked from editing, as are those who persist in editing to advertise or promote anything or anyone. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:37, 22 August 2017 (UTC)