User talk:Vlathankara

Your article Swargaropithamatha
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Swargaropithamatha to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:04, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Swargaropithamatha


A tag has been placed on Swargaropithamatha 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://swargaropithamatha.wixsite.com/church/history. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken 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 use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy 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 deleted 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. Largoplazo (talk) 15:10, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Reply to your deletion challenge
Hi. In response to your comments contesting the deletion of the article you created: Largoplazo (talk) 21:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * This is English Wikipedia, so only articles in English are accepted here.
 * There are number of hurdles to cross for copyrighted material to be posted to Wikipedia, more than just claiming to have received permission. See WP:Donating copyrighted materials.
 * Even if copyrighted were granted, it's unusual for the language on any person's or organization's website about themselves to be suitable for an encyclopedia article, as they, a good deal of the time, contain varying amounts of subjective content, whether it's to express or elicit a sense of admiration, awe, drama, or some other emotional state, and Wikipedia articles must be objective, written from a neutral point of view. Editors should write articles from the outset in a manner suitable for an encyclopedia, in their own words.
 * Content in articles should be sourced, using footnotes, to secondary, reliable sources that are independent of the article's subject, or it should be possible to find such sources to reference. That's another reason why it isn't likely to be suitable for an article, even if copyright is granted, to be copied from the subject's website.