User talk:SFAYL

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page and the Teahouse, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! SwisterTwister  talk  19:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School


A tag has been placed on St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that 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 general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising,. Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit |the article's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You may freely add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SwisterTwister  talk  19:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * In addition to what said above, I suggest that you review what not to include in articles for schools, as well as the article guidelines for schools. Given that you are an employee of the article subject, I recommend that you also familiarize yourself with avoiding conflict of interest and WP:COI in general. Thanks, and happy editing! --Tgeairn (talk) 21:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Removing Speedy at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School
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Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I didn't delete the article, but I did make some necessary changes. The improvements you made after the speedy tag was added were good ones, but did not go far enough. In particular, a Wikipedia article can not be copied   from a web site, even your own -- first it's a copyright violation, but, even if you own the copyright and are willing to give us permission according to WP:DCM, the tone will not be encyclopedic and the material will not be suitable. The paragraph on school philosophy was an appropriate quotation: you had already put it in quotation marks, so I just added the reference. The section on history would have been better written from scratch, so I did so--the description of the opening ceremony, besides being excessive copyvio, was excessive detail. As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. And keep in mind that the goal of an encyclopedia is to say things in a concise manner, which is not the style of  press releases or  web sites, which are usually more expansive.

However, since the name you have used includes or refers to the school that is the subject of the article, you must choose another username. As explained in WP:USER, only individuals may edit. When you have a username that is the name of your school, you imply that you are editing officially, and have a superior right to edit the page. But that is not the way WP works--all editors are considered equal--and your contributions like those of any editor must be justified by sources. I'm sure you do not intend to give such impression, but that's why we have the rule. Therefore, please choose another name. On that user   page, you should say whom you are working for. There's an important contribution you could make: please check if the high schools your students later attend  have Wikipedia articles -- if they do, please link to them; if they don't, consider making them. What we say here is, ''"Build the net." ''  DGG ( talk ) 02:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)