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Your submission at Articles for creation: Outpost gallery (June 22)

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.

Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain 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. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Outpost gallery may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Clovermoss (talk) 15:25, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Maddie.exton! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation 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! Clovermoss (talk) 15:25, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Outpost gallery

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Outpost gallery, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://artreview.com/jan-feb-2013-off-space-no-10-outpost-norwich/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) 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.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Clovermoss (talk) 15:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hi Maddie. Seeing these automatic messages likely wasn't the best start to your editing experience. I'm sorry about that. I think that your draft could potentially be a useful article someday, it just needs to be written without being promotional and with references to reliable, independant sources. It sounds like the gallery does great things and I understand why you're passionate about it, it's just something that's really important from an encyclopedia perspective. If there's anything I can do to help you, I genuinely will try. Alternatively, you could go to the Teahouse which is a friendly forum for new editors like yourself. Clovermoss (talk) 15:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! Thanks so much for the feedback, it's really useful. As you say, this is my first time authoring a blog so I'll take your suggestion happily and got to Teahouse! Thanks again, Maddie Maddie.exton (talk) 19:32, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just to check, is there a way I can access the material that was deleted? It would be great to continue editing it to try again. Maddie.exton (talk) 19:35, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Maddie. My current understanding is that some administrators will accept requests to view deleted material but that doesn't really apply to content that was deleted because it was a copyright violation? I will say that it's important to understand that Wikipedia articles aren't meant to be a blog, but neutral articles about subjects that meet Wikipedia's definition of notable. And that this content is written in your own words, not copy and pasted from any source. An example of what that looks like for an article about an art gallery can be found at National Museum of Western Art. I'm also going to "ping" (give a notification) the adminstrator who deleted your draft, Athaenara, as she might be able to offer better advice. In regards to writing articles in general this page could be helpful to read. Clovermoss (talk) 22:50, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Maddie.exton: I don't understand what "this is my first time authoring a blog" is about, did you think the page you wrote on Wikipedia was a blog post? – Athaenara ✉ 23:07, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Outpost (gallery) (June 27)

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.

Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain 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. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Outpost (gallery) may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:14, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing.

Hello Maddie.exton. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Maddie.exton. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Maddie.exton|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Theroadislong (talk) 12:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! I'm not a paid editor. As disclosed on my profile, I have an association with the gallery. I am a volunteer. The gallery in a non profit charity. Maddie.exton (talk) 13:06, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Outpost (gallery) has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Outpost (gallery). Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 12:45, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]