User talk:Operagirlk

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Speedy deletion nomination of Shirley Love (Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano)

A tag has been placed on Shirley Love (Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano) 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 blatant 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.

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, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, 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. Tad Lincoln (talk) 03:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of whether Mrs. Love holds the copyright on that text, Wikipedia still does not accept copied-and-pasted text from other sources. Even if it's not copyright violation, it's plagiarism if not properly attributed, and more importantly it's lazy writing that can reflect poorly on the encyclopedia. If someone wants to write an article here, they should do so in their own words.

Also, if Mrs. Love asked you to create an article about her here, and if you are her student, then you are probably in a WP:conflict of interest. Please follow that link to read about Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy before you try to re-create this article. Thank you, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:43, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, posting her "unbiased biography" is tantamount to plagiarism. If you really want to do it, you would first have to contact someone on Wikipedia's OTRS e-mail team to verify that you have permission to copy and paste this biography; see Wikipedia:Contact us/Permit for instructions. You also need to read WP:Your first article to make sure that whatever you write meets Wikipedia's content criteria: specifically, it needs to demonstrate why Mrs. Love meets Wikipedia's notability guideline and it needs to cite reliable, independent, third-party sources to establish its facts. Just copying bare text is not enough. To learn how to format footnotes and references and such in Wikipedia, you can look at the brief Wikipedia tutorial.

I should warn you, though, that you still are in a conflict of interest, whether you feel that way or not. You're writing an article about someone you have a close personal relationship with, and are writing an article because you were asked to—both of those things mean you need to be especially careful. Again, read the conflict-of-interest policy page I linked above. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a pretty intricate notability policy governing who can have stand-alone articles written about them and who can't. Often in long lists like the ones you saw, there are lots of entries which are not notable in of themselves but still fit into the list; thus, lists will sometimes mention people who wouldn't have articles of their own. I don't know if this is the case with Mrs. Love, as I'm not particularly familiar with the notability guidelines for musicians. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Most of those music criteria in that link appear to be geared more towards pop music, etc., so I'm not sure if it's helpful or not. If you're unsure, you can try posting a message at Wikipedia talk:Notability (music) (the discussion page attached to those criteria) and asking people there for an opinion. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 04:02, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update Looks like someone has just created the article anew: see Shirley Love. You may be interested in checking it out and improving it. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 14:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To add a picture, you first have to make sure it's not copyrighted or is released under a GDFL or CC-BY/CC-BY-SA license (more information on Wikipedia's image use policy). After that, you have to upload it to Wikipedia (see WP:Upload) and fill out the information form underneath it to specify the source, date, license, etc. Then you can add it to the article (there is information on how to format it, etc., at WP:Picture tutorial). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:38, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]