User talk:Eileen204

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your article submission has been declined, and Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/New Haven Academy was not created. Please do not recreate this article, as it was composed mainly of copyrighted information. Thank you. Sven Manguard Wha? 19:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I would like to try again. This was my first attempt at a Wikipedia article. Can I try to rewrite please? I am a library media specialist. The mission statement is ours although it is posted on another website. How can a writer validate the copyright of a piece of information that is not on the internet, and is posted by someone other than the original writer? Thanks for any information.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details on the article's talk page and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note on the article's talk page with a link to where we can find that note.
If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article's talk page.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. In fact, in my experience that is often the best thing to do. The trouble with giving copyright permission is that very often the copyright material comes across as promotional. I have known many newcomers to Wikipedia go through the following process: (1) write a new article; (2) see it deleted as a copyright infringement; (3) go to the trouble of finding out how to show that they have copyright permission; (4) rewrite the article; (5) see it deleted again, this time because it reads like promotion. To me including the "mission statement" reads as promotion, even if it is given as a quote, though not everyone would agree with that. My advice is to steer clear of anything that even might be seen as promotional. Bear in mind that if you are personally involved in the subject that you are writing about then you may not see it from the same objective perspective of independent observer, and things that to you look fine may look like advertising to an outsider.

I hope those remarks have been helpful. Please feel welcome to contact me again if you have any more questions. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:56, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Yes your remarks were very helpful thanks so much! I understand how an article could read like a promotion. Could you help me create an article that would pass? I am on a mission now to make a successful contribution! I have redone the page. I find navigation through these forums difficult, I think I created it on my user page.

Your submission at Articles for creation

New Haven Academy, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thank you for helping Wikipedia! Chzz ► 23:10, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]