User talk:Rvnsam001

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Speedy deletion nomination of Zimbabwean Theatre


A tag has been placed on Zimbabwean Theatre requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e7ba/8c8304b5794f251a96e619ab33462d0f160a.pdf. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken 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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Copyright issue
I see that you appear to be the author of the material that was just deleted as a copyright violation. That may surprise you, but there is a process for licensing material for use in Wikipedia, and the process is more formal than a note on an article talk page. Importantly, we have no way of knowing that you are who you say you are. Please see Donating copyrighted materials.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:46, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Zimbabwean dramatists and playwrights
I've undone your edits to and moved the text to your sandbox, as you add articles to a category by editing the articles, not by editing the category - see WP:CATEGORIES for more details. In wiki terms, the text you were adding would be more suitable for a list article, such as the one at List of Zimbabwean writers. And just in general, Wikipedia likes entries on that kind of list to be WP:NOTABLE enough to have their own article, you may want to consider creating some of them. I appreciate that the way Wikipedia works can be difficult to get to grips with to start with, but please stick with it, we need better coverage of areas such as African writers. You may want to ask for help over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Theatre. Le Deluge (talk) 09:23, 22 July 2020 (UTC)