User talk:Dsylvester1
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Historymaker, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://historymaker.ca/about/index.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Historymaker
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A tag has been placed on Historymaker requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for organizations and companies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Glenfarclas (talk) 23:05, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Your e-mail message
[edit]Thank you for your e-mail message; I have reproduced it here for your convenience. I prefer to do Wikipedia business entirely in the view of the community and do not respond to e-mail privately. "Hi Accounting4Taste. I recently saw that you deleted a page of mine that I created yesterday. I believe there has been some misunderstanding. The Historymaker page was created for a youth and young adult conference event which we host every year and get good traffic out of websites like these. Now, I see that one of the copyright issues that may have accured is the fact that the content was taken from a website. Our website. Now, we have all rights to that material. Could you please un-delete my page? I would like to change it, as I never got a chance to previously. Regards, Dsylvester " I'm afraid that I'm not prepared to undelete the article since, as it stands, it was correctly deleted in my opinioin; however, I have placed the deleted material into a "sandbox" page for you at User:Dsylvester1/Sandbox, where you can work on it if you wish. There are a number of issues with this article, and you are labouring under a misapprehension. The reason the article was deleted has nothing to do with copyright; it was deleted because there was no evidence that the topic was notable, and no reliable sources provided to demonstrate any notability, and there was no way to verify any of the information. In addition, I am seriously concerned that you suggest that you "get good traffic out of websites like these". Wikipedia is not here for you to advertise your event or to drive traffic to your efforts, and if that seems to be your entire purpose here, you can expect to find that your material will be quickly deleted because it infringes our advertising policy. My recommendation is that you look at this introductory article for valuable information as to the absolute requirements for the topics of Wikipedia articles, and be prepared to conclusively prove that the topic in question has notability according to Wikipedia's definition of that term. You do not require my assistance or permission to re-mount the article, but I will advise you that you will certainly encounter exactly the same objections, and speedy deletion, should you do so without significant improvements to bring the article up to Wikipedia's requirements. Best of luck with your future contributions. Accounting4Taste:talk 16:54, 6 January 2010 (UTC)