Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2013 November 17

= November 17 =

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/UP Portia Sorority
Hi! My name is Karla Bernardo, and I am the Public Relations Officer of the UP Portia Sorority, the UP College of Law's only law-based sorority. I was also the one who made the iskWiki page from which this article appears to have been copied. Is there any way I can still post this here in the main Wikipedia page? iskWiki is the Wikipedia page for UP students, but our alumni is hoping (especially for this year, as we are celebrating our 80th anniversary) that we have an official Wikipedia page. The History and other information I placed here are the official ones we use every time we are required to put out something about our sorority.

I hope you can allow me to use this information here.

Best, Karla Bernardo

Karlabernardo (talk) 02:03, 17 November 2013 (UTC) Hello Karla. Unfortunately, it can't be published here as a copy of this web page. That page is clearly marked © 2009-2013 Diliman Interactive Learning Center. I am going to reduce the draft to a stub temporarily. There are two things you can do which would allow Wikipedia to republish:

1. The easiest way is to place the following notice with this exact wording on the web page in question:
 * The text of this page is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

or

2. Send an email granting Wikipedia permission to use the text following the instructions at: Donating copyrighted materials. This one is more complicated and you must follow the instructions and wording there exactly or the permission will not be considered valid.

Please also remember that once you have released the text under a free license, you cannot revoke the release. Anyone can re-use and alter it freely, even for commercial gain. The only condition being that they must attribute the text to the copyright holder (UP Portia Sorority?) and they cannot republish it under a more restrictive license. In the meantime, I suggest you concentrate on adding independent sources to the article to establish the notability of the subject. Simply referencing it to the sorority's website is not enough. I hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:34, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Margot O&
please can someone kindly help me urgent to fix this article about.. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Margot O&  i have a big problem on the references list.... i need your assistance, thanks you in advance  15:55, 17 November 2013 (UTC)Mohammede aziz abdul (talk)
 * What is wrong with the references list? --Huang (talk) 16:20, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing now. I fixed it for him :). There was a format mistake in one of the references that prevented them from showing. Voceditenore (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2013 (UTC)   thanks u for help.Mohammede aziz abdul (talk) 10:01, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/GamerFitnation
Since the Articles for Creation is severely backlogged, is there any reason not to simply post the article without waiting for review? Would it be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smackeben (talk • contribs) 20:16, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You can move the article directly into mainspace if you are a autoconfirmed user (ie: your account is older than 4 days and you have more than 10 edits), but if it gets speedy deleted or deleted via discussion, don't say you weren't warned. The good news about GamerFitnation is that it contains citations to multiple reliable sources, which means it won't (and, indeed, hasn't) been declined without hesitation. However, a reviewer has to check all the citations to confirm they contain sufficient coverage about GamerFitnation, which will take some time. This does mean though, that if your submission passes, it's highly unlikely to be deleted. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tim Jerome (actor)
How do I respond to the following reviewer message? (I have verified that there is NO Wikipedia article on this person.) Thank you!

"Please verify that Tim Jerome (actor) does not already exist and that it does not need to be moved to a different title." — Preceding unsigned comment added by JDR1944 (talk • contribs) 21:45, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * That's an instruction for somebody reviewing the article. You can safely ignore it. As it is, I've declined your article but with some further work it might pass in the future. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:44, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

== Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ACURIL Can you help on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/ACURILKmccook (talk) 22:08, 17 November 2013 (UTC) ==

This article seems to have gotten lost. A colleague began it and I'd like to work on it.

Can you help on this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/ACURILKmccook (talk) 22:08, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * The article was last submitted three days ago. There is currently a severe backlog of more than 2,000 submissions, which means unfortunately there's a delay getting things processed. Sorry. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:45, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Integrated Marine Observing System
I have taken over the account for the Integrated Marine Observing System which previously had a page deleted from Wikipedia due to copyright infringements, which I believe were due to errors by the information provider, who was the holder of the account. I have inherited the username and password and hope to rebuild the entry.

I would like to re-create the page with similar content, but it is unclear how to contact the original deleter. I click on their name in the advisory panel but it is not clear what to do next.

Could you please provide instructions on how to either 1) contact the deleter or 2) re-list the page with approved content.

Jess Tyler, Communications Manager, IMOS Franhutchi (talk) 23:09, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * "I have taken over the account" ... "I have inherited the username and password" - that's not generally a good idea, because our policies on sockpuppetry specify that an account is used by one person only and that piggybacking onto another account is not allowed.
 * The article was deleted due to infringing Wikipedia's specific copyright policies, which are a little confusing to new editors. Put simply, anything you write on Wikipedia can be reused and resold by anyone else. If somebody wanted to take the contents of my talk page and publish it as a book, they can (they'd be a little crazy, but they wouldn't be infringing copyright!) Because most people don't expect this, we can't accept text copied from another site unless it is specifically marked with the same copyright policy, or somebody has contacted the Volunteer Response System to clear its copyright status.
 * The simplest thing to do is to rewrite the article in your own words. However, make sure you include references to reliable sources such as commercially published books, magazines or newspapers, or the submission is likely to be declined again. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:34, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/George O. Jackson, Jr.
Help. I have spent way too much time trying to add an infobox with a photograph to the article about George O. Jackson Jr. I have uploaded an image and managed to add the infobox to the article. But I cannot make the image appear.

Thanks for your help. JoanLouise (talk) 23:33, 17 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I have fixed the infobox to display the image. The copyright status is a larger concern, but I see you have asked that on Media Copyright Questions, so somebody will be able to help you there. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)