User talk:TheMacCuill

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Speedy deletion nomination of Clan Mackall
Hello TheMacCuill,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Clan Mackall for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Amortias (T)(C) 21:08, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
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May 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Clan Mackall has been reverted. Your edit here to Clan Mackall was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/ClanMcCallCaithness) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 22:08, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Clan Mackall


A tag has been placed on Clan Mackall 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.tartanfootprint.com/mccall/info/. 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.

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 * I have deleted the page. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously; adding copyrighted non-free text is not acceptable. Huon (talk) 22:38, 30 May 2014 (UTC)


 * You claim you own the copyright to that content. But http://www.tartanfootprint.com/mccall/info/ bears a copyright tag of "©scotclans.com" and I see no evidence that the content has been released under a free license, or that you are legally in a position to do so. That said, even if that text were freely licensed so that everybody might re-use and modify it for any purpose, it still would be unsuitable for Wikipedia. You do not provide any reliable sources for that content (and no, Facebook and the content you wrote yourself are not reliable sources), it's unduly promotional, of questionable factual accuracy (I doubt many Scottish clansmen would have been educated enough to call out in Latin in the heat of battle, and that's ignoring your supposed divine ancestors), and it even speaks of the clan in the first person. If this clan is notable enough for an article at all, which seems rather doubtful, the content would have to be rewritten in its entirety anyway, based on reliable independent sources such as newspaper articles or history books that discuss the clan in some detail. Huon (talk) 23:06, 30 May 2014 (UTC)