User talk:Widlguy

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Speedy deletion nomination of Buffettmas


A tag has been placed on Buffettmas 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. 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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 * Hi Widlguy, I'm Qwyrxian, an admin here at Wikipedia. I did delete the above article, but wanted to respond to your comment on the article's talk page. No one was saying that the holiday was copyrighted--rather, the entire text of the article was directly copied from that linked website; that's a copyright violation. However, before you go about trying to recreate the article, you should also know that Wikipedia articles can only be on notable subjects. In general, this means that they need to have been discussed in detail in multiple, independent [{WP:RS|reliable sources]]. This means that Buffett fan sites, newsletters, blogs, etc. do not qualify--you'd need newspapers, scholarly journals, etc. And even then, it's far more likely that the information, even if important enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, should probably instead just be added to the Jimmy Buffett article. Qwyrxian (talk) 06:51, 22 December 2012 (UTC)