User talk:Rosshcoleman

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Australian Open Access Support Group


A tag has been placed on Draft:Australian Open Access Support Group 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://aoasg.org.au/about/#ToR. 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 or other printed material 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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deletion of Draft Australian Open Access Support Group page by Jimfbleak
I am new to creating and editing an article on Wikipedia - so apologies for any ignorance or misunderstanding on my part

I would like to query the speedy deletion of the Draft Australian Open Access Support Group page by jimfbleak - as below

06:13, 16 October 2015 Jimfbleak (talk | contribs) deleted page Draft:Australian Open Access Support Group (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion: G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://aoasg.org.au/about/#ToR)

The Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) is not a commercial entity, but a group, including university libraries, that provides a forum for discussions about open access. I am setting up this page on behalf of the Executive Director of AOASG.

The pages of the AOASG are clearly identified with "Unless otherwise noted, site content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." I'm not sure (or was unaware) that linking to a page with a CC licence is a copyright infringement

I am happy to make any changes to the pages that comply with Wikipedia policies

Rosshcoleman (talk) 05:57, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Reply
Hi, thanks for message. I think you are right about the licence, but there are other major issues which make it unusable. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the company, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company claims or interviewing its management. You gave no references at all.
 * There is nothing anyway to suggest that your organisation meets our notability criteria. From your draft, it appears to have no headquarters, membership, employees, funding or expenditure
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.
 * We welcome your suggestions and contributions through the Contact us&mdash; First person writing is spammy, see also ownership of content
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. that's particularly the case when they are spamlinks to your organisation.
 * The whole thing is promotional, eg Click here to see the full terms of reference for the group... Your contribution is welcome... Interested people can subscribe by going here to subscribe to discussion list... invites members of the broader open access community in Australia to contribute to the discussion... We welcome your suggestions and contributions...
 * Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: ''This site aims to be an authoritative location for all aspects of the open access discussion in Australia... To provide leadership... To provide a voice within the region... To remain nimble and flexible and evolve to ensure the organisation is sustainable.

I am setting up this page on behalf of the Executive Director of AOASG. You have a conflict of interest when editing this article. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your organisation is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting this topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. I don't think your text is a suitable basis for an article, you are better to start from scratch. Have a look at a couple of articles about organisations, eg Mozilla so you have some idea what you are doing, but don't attempt to recreate until you have responded to the COI paragraphs above. Let me know if anything is unclear Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:54, 17 October 2015 (UTC)