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Speedy deletion nomination of Leeds Astronomical Society


A tag has been placed on Leeds Astronomical Society 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://www.leedsastronomy.org.uk/History.html. 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website or image but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Hitro  talk  18:41, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Leeds Astronomical Society, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 19:09, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Astromeet


A tag has been placed on Astromeet requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content or organised event, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Kolbasz (talk) 21:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Copyright infringement and Wikipedia
I thought I'd explain why the page was tagged as a WP:COPYVIO. Ultimately it was because it was taken almost entirely from this website. Even if you claim that the website doesn't want to exert copyright control over their website, that still doesn't give Wikipedia permission to use the material, nor does the fact that a Wikipedia administrator is a member of the society. (If I understand that correctly.) The only way that the material can be used is if the society were to submit a ticket through WP:ORTS that gives Wikipedia permission to use the material. However be cautious with that because even if permission is granted, in most cases the source material may contain prose that could be seen as promotional or too casual for Wikipedia's purposes. I'll also be honest in that even if permission is granted, using text from other sources is still heavily frowned upon on Wikipedia. I've edited pages where the original content was labeled as fair use from the beginning, only for people to continually tag the page as a copyright violation and as a promotional page. In just about every case I've seen, the copyrighted text had to be removed and re-written because it was just easier to do that than it was to continually tell people that the material could remain on Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  06:27, 18 May 2015 (UTC)