User talk:UCknowledge

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Speedy deletion nomination of Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action


A tag has been placed on Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action


A tag has been placed on Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but 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 yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:00, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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On the now deleted talk p, you wrote "This page is not unambiguously promotional, because the idea of this research is to increased the public understanding of accountability, not to promote the book on the subject. Accountability is a critical issue for India and for other emerging markets with poor institutional frameworks. The only way that accountability can improve is if ordinary citizens are aware about it and understand it.  That is the purpose of this research.  Any one who reads the explanation we have provided in the article, summarizes the book and will not need to buy the book after reading that." The article,  must be about the book, not the underlying subject of the book.

Promotion does not just refer to commercial promotion, it includes promotion of the ideas of the book. If the book is notable, then we'd have an article to inform people briefly about the book, its ideas, and the public reception of it, but certainly not to serve as a substitute for reading the book.

Additionally, a Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. For a book, it's published book reviews, not blurbs on the publishers site.

Even more important, the article is a copy of the books web site. Wikipedia observes other people's copyright, and the contents of Pearson's web site is their copyright. Material here must be original, neither copied nor close paraphrase. If the book does have sufficient published reviews to justify an article, the article  has to be written from scratch. If you think you can do it right according to our guidelines, do so, but expect the article to be carefully checked for objectivity and copyvio.

I'm placing a formal warning about reinserting copyvio below, to emphasise how seriously we take this.  DGG ( talk ) 19:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

April 2012
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  DGG ( talk ) 19:18, 18 April 2012 (UTC)