User talk:OddsnEnds

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Issues with Draft:SeaCamp, Big Pine Key, Florida

Hi OddsnEnds. I have deleted the above draft as a copyright violation, as copied from here, starting with the first edit.

This cannot be done even if the text was originally written by you, or you otherwise own the copyright or have legal authority over it. If it was suitable for use here as the content of an article (copies of organizations' own writings about themselves are usually quite unsuitable for copying and pasting here unchanged, even when there is no copyright and plagiarism problems, for a variety of reasons such as because of promotional tone) it would have to be irrevocably released to the world under a suitably-free copyright license, by a method evidencing your authority to release it, e.g., by one of the methods listed at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

Note that this is different from other sites, where a person owning the copyright to text and images can license their use, but retain non-free ownership of the copyright.

Another issue is that drafts like this one are almost always the product of a person who has a stake in the organization they are writing about.

Wikipedia requires that paid editors provide disclosure of that stake; of their conflict of interest.

Please also be aware that this draft cited no published, reliable, secondary, independent sources that have written about the camp topic in substantive detail. No article will be accepted in that absence.

I am posting two canned template immediately below: one about the copyright issue, and another providing instruction on how to comply with mandatory paid editing disclosure. Regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation in Draft:SeaCamp, Big Pine Key, Florida

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the page Draft:SeaCamp, Big Pine Key, Florida, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition was deleted under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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.

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 include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License." You may also e-mail or mail the Foundation to release the content. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more.

While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing disclosure

Hello OddsnEnds. Your edits look as if you are being paid, such as the edit you made to Draft:SeaCamp, Big Pine Key, Florida. Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI).
Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:OddsnEnds. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=OddsnEnds|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. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]