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Speedy deletion nomination of Center for American Values

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A tag has been placed on Center for American Values 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 clear 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. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, 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. Nat Gertler (talk) 22:36, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On copyright (and other) concerns

I believe you when you say that you wrote the material that you used in the article. However, even with that, for various legal reasons Wikipedia cannot use such material unless the copyright has explicitly been licensed under certain licenses. You can find details on granting such permission at WP:PERMIT. And if you need to get your edits back, there are ways of doing so; I'm no expert at it, but I believe that after you get the permissions worked out, User:Sphilbrick, who actually deleted the article (I just marked it for an administrator to look at) should be able to restore it.

Having said that, I would recommend that you take a look at the Wikipedia policy on conflicts of interest. You would find that you are strongly discouraged from creating articles about a group that you're so tightly tied to.

With all that in mind, welcome to the editing of Wikipedia! It looks very different from this end, but in many ways I think you'll find that Wikipedia is much like America itself -- achieving great things by struggling earnestly and imperfectly to match its ideals. I expect that you have much to offer in this effort. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]