User talk:Stwrttrys

The Mirror of Equality

Speedy deletion nomination of Troy c stewart,sr


A tag has been placed on Troy c stewart,sr 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 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/668854. 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 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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Speedy deletion nomination of The Mirror of Equality


A tag has been placed on The Mirror of Equality 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 https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/668854. 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 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.

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 "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. Adem20 (talk) 10:22, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Copyright and Wikipedia
Hey, I thought I'd explain why I deleted the page on your book. It was for two reasons.

The first is that it was a copyright violation of the sale page on Smashwords. Even though you've said that you're the author of the work in question, we can't verify that you're the owner based on a claim on a talk page. You'd have to file a ticket through WP:OTRS that gave Wikipedia permission to use the content and that verified your identity. Until then, the content is still considered to be a copyright violation.

The second is that the page did come across as promotional, mostly because you listed the various places that someone could purchase the book in question. This came across like you were trying to use Wikipedia as a place to promote your work. This might not have been your intent, but that's how it came across.

I do have to caution you though - it's very difficult for self-published books to pass WP:NBOOK as most do not gain the type of secondary, in-depth coverage in reliable sources that Wikipedia requires to pass this criteria. It can happen, but it's fairly rare - enough to where I can only name a handful of self-published books that have gained enough coverage to pass NBOOK and of those, most of them ended up getting picked up by mainstream publishers. It's just that difficult to pass notability guidelines. I wrote a little bit about this here and although that was written with the idea of establishing notability for authors, the criteria isn't that much different overall as many authors tend to gain notability via their books' coverage rather than coverage for themselves. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 

Welcome!
Hello, Stwrttrys, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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