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Speedy deletion nomination of A2 science in society - Biodiversity Hotspots


A tag has been placed on A2 science in society - Biodiversity Hotspots requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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.

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Copied here (intact) from the talk page of the deleted article
''*Hi, as it stands, the page copies text verbatim (or nearly so) from a copyrighted source, which is not admissible on WP (or anywhere else, for that matter). I'll put a "welcome template" on your userpage and you would do well to read the linked guidelines and policies, as this will help you navigate WP and its intricacies. In addition, before creating a new page, you should verify whether something similar does not already exist. In the present case, there is already an article on biodiversity hotspots. Also, your title is not very encyclopedic (I have no clue what "A2 science in society" means, is that the name of your class?), for example. Your "references" are just bare URLs. I sympathize with the fact that this is a school project, but before starting to edit away, you should really get to know WP so that your contributions, like this one, will not be challenged within a few minutes of having been made. Doesn't your class include something like "introduction to editing Wikipedia"? --Crusio (talk) 13:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)''

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, your account has been blocked; you are welcome to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. Thank you. - Dank (push to talk) 14:28, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

There is a deep degree of confusion here!!!!
We welcome contributions to Wikipedia itself, if they respect our rules and procedures.


 * However, the userpage of this account betrays a deep confusion between creating a
 * wiki <-- Please follow this link!!!!
 * and creating an article in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anybody can edit. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Informational note: this is to let you know that there currently is a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Regards, -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:41, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear User:Scienceinsociety
I think you want to make a wiki for your students, but you are going about it wrong. Wikipedia is a wiki that someobody else created for a specific purpose, namely to work as an encyclopedia. Wikipedia does not allow class projects to use its webspace for projects that do not contribute to its goal of writing an encyclopedia. A wiki is simply a software platform that allows for collaborative editing, if you want to build a wiki for your clase you need to learn to set up the wiki software on your own server so that your students can use it for class purposes. I assume your institution probably has a computer specialist whom you can ask about how to do that. In any case you cannot use wikipedia in the way you seem to have intended.·Maunus· ƛ · 14:57, 11 March 2011 (UTC)