User talk:SGreenoff

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Speedy deletion nomination of Newfoundland Chocolate Company

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A tag has been placed on Newfoundland Chocolate Company requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.newfoundlandchocolatecompany.com/#!our-story/cu3v. 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 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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Your submission at Articles for creation: Newfoundland Chocolate Company (March 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment they left was:

Please go to the TeaHouse for help on formatting the sources. You've got a right mess there at the moment, and it makes it hard to review the article.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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LaMona (talk) 16:38, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! SGreenoff, 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! LaMona (talk) 16:38, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Newfoundland Chocolate Company has been accepted

Newfoundland Chocolate Company, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:31, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work! A couple minor points:

On Wikipedia, say "and", not "&"
"It's" means "it is", while "its" means "belonging to it". No worries, common mistake and I fixed it for you.
Under WP:Fair Use you can add one logo for the company to the page, see WP:Logo for how to do this
One simple way to turn URLs into full footnotes is using the tool at WP:Reflinks; that's how I turned all your footnotes into full citations, just took me one click. It's not perfect, so sometimes you have to go back in and fix a title or two, but overall it works pretty well.
That aside, if you live anywhere around a branch or head office of NCC, you can upload any photos that you take yourself to Wikimedia Commons. You cannot upload any photo from the news, NCC website, etc. unless the owner of the photo files a WP:OTRS form with Wikipedia's law branch, as we take copyright very seriously. Best just to upload your own photo so you can click the Release check-box to make the photo publicly usable.

Great work, hope this inspires you to write more articles about Newfoundland! If you're into the local food scene, I think Bacalao is a really cool place, and appears to have enough news coverage (and not just locally) plus mention in a few books on GoogleBooks, to justify an article. Hope you feel comfortable with the basics of article-writing now, it gets easier and easier with practice! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:39, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]