User talk:WikiPlacesEditor

Copyright concerns
Hello. Realizing you have not edited in some time, I nevertheless wanted to let you know that the article you created on Greater Grimsby was blanked for copyright evaluation nearly two weeks ago when another editor noticed that there were similarities to the text in various pages of. You were supposed to have been notified of this concern and how to address it, but unfortunately the editor who discovered the issue omitted that step. As an administrator who evaluates copyright concerns, I came to the article today to review the matter and did find duplicated text from various subpages of that site scattered throughout the article. As we cannot use content from copyrighted websites without verification of license and it was not possible to determine how much of the language was copied and how much original, I have deleted the article. I would ordinarily have created a "stub" in its place so that we retain some information, but many of the sources are dead and the source used to verify that "Greater Grimsby" is an established concept does not, unfortunately, establish that - the lead sentence "The North East Lincolnshire towns of Grimsby, Immingham and Cleethorpes, form the economic area known as Greater Grimsby" was sourced to this article, which only supports that business leaders in the area embraced a plan to create such a brand. If you choose to recreate the article, it would be a good idea to use sources which establish the wide use of the name so that it is obvious it isn't a neologism.

Alternatively, if you are connected to the Greater Grimsby website, as your editing history suggests you might be, you can alleviate copyright concerns and have the old article restored simply by verifying license. There are two ways to do this, both described at Donating copyrighted materials. If you choose the simpler path of placing the license on the website, please drop me a note on my talk page so that I can restore the article and note the license. If you do it by mail, the person who responds to your mail should be able to assist with this. Please be sure to tell them the exact name of the article so that they can find it.

Apologies for the complication, but as copyright is a legal matter we do have steps we must follow to incorporate content from copyrighted websites. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:55, 2 September 2014 (UTC)