User talk:Sparksincork

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Hello, Sparksincork, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Professor Fergus Shanahan, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of Professor Fergus Shanahan


The article Professor Fergus Shanahan has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. The Average Wikipedian (talk) 10:06, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for message. You can sign your comments automatically using four tildes ~. I deleted your article because
 * The article was a copyright violation. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. In this case the copied page clearly stated Copyright 2015 Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
 * it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that he meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include sites affiliated with him, 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 he claims or interviewing him.

If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it, for example if you are a colleague or student.

For legal reasons we do not restore copyrighted text, but you are welcome to try again using your own words and proper third-party sources. I suggest that you write a draft here rather than throwing it straight to the wolves.

Note that your article title is wrong, no ranks, titles etc. See Albert Einstein, Barack Obama. Referring to him only by his first name is unencyclopaedic.

You are clearly unfamiliar with our policies, see Pamela C. Rasmussen for an example of a science biography. Yours doesn't have to be anything like as detailed, and you don't have to use the fancy reference templates, just will do

If you have any questions or need help, let me know on my talk page

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)