Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2019 April 22

22 April 2019

 * Steuart Pittman ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from https://www.aacounty.org/departments/county-executive/bio/index.html https://www.equusfoundation.org/news/releases/news-release-407.html. Bri.public (talk) 19:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting delete.svg|20px]] Article deleted, albeit for reasons beyond the copyright issue. They purportedly filed an OTRS permission to cover off the copyright issue, but didn't resolve any of the bigger problems with the article. Firstly, the subject has not held any political role that constitutes an automatic pass of WP:NPOL at all, so he is not automatically entitled to keep a Wikipedia article in the absence of reliable source coverage in media just because he copies and pastes his own biography from another site and then papers over the copyright issue with an OTRS — copyright issue or not, he still has to clear our normal notability standards for local politicians on his sourceability before he's allowed to have an article on here at all. Secondly, the other thing that happened here is that the article was originally created in draftspace, and then immediately moved into mainspace without a proper AFC review — so since that's not acceptable AFC process, I moved it back into draftspace and gave it an actual AFC to clarify why it wasn't suitable for mainspace in its original form (i.e. not citing enough real reliable sources to make him notable just for being a county executive) — but then it got deleted there as a copyvio by somebody else, and then the creator recreated it a second time, and immediately moved it back into mainspace without a proper AFC review again, proving only that they didn't listen to what they were told the first time they tried that stunt. Wasn't acceptable process the first time; doing it again, even after being told that it wasn't acceptable the first time, is even less acceptable. Accordingly, I'm also salting the title for the time being. Bearcat (talk) 02:17, 23 April 2019 (UTC)