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Your submission at Articles for creation: Mark Wright (February 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from Mark Wright (footballer, born 1963). Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 17:51, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Johnccarleton, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 17:51, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Wright

It appears that your submission to Articles for Creation is very nearly an exact copy of Mark Wright (footballer, born 1963). It also appears that you did make some of the improvements to that article. Why are you submitting a draft that is a copy of an existing article? If you want to make more improvements, make them to the article. If necessary, discuss them at the article talk page. If you have any questions, ask at the Teahouse. Submitting an existing article as your own work (even if it is partly your own work) violates Wikipedia's terms of attribution and is technically a violation of Wikipedia's own copyleft. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:56, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Robert- With such a wholesale overhaul of the entire article (re-written from the ground up by LBloome and I)- I just didn't know how to go about it. Section headers, content, etc was all re-organized in the sandbox copy. Do I just go through section by section and edit source to get it done? Johnccarleton (talk) 18:06, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(To clarify) The article has some similar content- but it is all re-ordered, re-written, and re-sourced. Johnccarleton (talk) 18:08, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As of today the article has been fully edited and accepted by the community (it seems) Johnccarleton (talk) 21:46, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Mark Wright

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Mark Wright requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from See notes. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I concur with this deletion. I modified the original article. Thank you for all your assistance! Johnccarleton (talk) 21:44, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]