User talk:17Spartacus76

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Hello, 17Spartacus76, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Operation Green Sweep, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Operation Green Sweep

A tag has been placed on Operation Green Sweep requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant 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.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ttonyb1 (talk) 23:40, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Green Sweep

If the material has been published after March 1, 1989 it has an implied copyright. Please do not continue to add the material back to the article unless you can show it is covered by Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 or the GFDL. ttonyb1 (talk) 04:53, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, let me commend you on your rewrite of the article. Your rewording has removed the issues caused by the potential copyright problems. So you are aware, there is no censorship associated with the deletion of the article. The nomination of the article in both instances was a result of it not meeting Wikipedia guidelines. I cannot speak to the first deletion, but the second nomination was solely as a result of it failing to meet the criteria under WP:COPYVIO for prior published material. I am aware of the copyright standards associated with U.S. government authored material; however, the material was not sourced as government published, but as published elsewhere. Had you pointed to the U.S. publication the article might not have been marked as a copyright violation. My best to you .... ttonyb1 (talk) 15:37, 20 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]