User talk:Teresa Due

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Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:29, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Medic to Medic article

Hello there,

Many thanks for reviewing the article I submitted on Medic to Medic! It seems I have come across the common problem of copyright meaning my page was deleted. Two things I would appreciate your feedback on are: 1. How can I best make sure that what I have written won't be deleted again? It was not clear to me which parts of the article were unacceptable and would like to rectify that. 2. I've tried saving my edits but I come across a message saying: "This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 20:47, 12 July 2012 Selket (talk | contribs) deleted page Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Medic to Medic (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement)"

As I am new to wikipedia, I am not entirely sure what I am being asked or how to continue editing my article for re-submission. Hope you can help.

Thanks! Teresa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teresa Due (talk • contribs) 13:30, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hiyas there Teresa ,

I declined the article as a copyright violation since (Part of) the text of the article was directly copied from another source (http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/members_partners/member_list/medictomedic/en/index.html in this case). Under US law copyright is automatically granted on all written texts, and is therefor present unless the writer specifically waives these rights. Copyright restricts what one can do with a text - for example, it may not be freely altered or reproduced, which is necessarily for Wikipedia. Due to this Wikipedia only accepts texts that are either licensed under GDFL or CC-BY-SA (or a more lenient license). The reason that the "This page has been deleted" pops up is because the page has been deleted for the above reason. Copying a copyrighted text is against the law, and as a result the content itself must be deleted if found.

Having said that i would equally point out that it is rarely a good idea to copy content directly, even if the license allows it. An encyclopedic text requires another structure and writing style then most other texts, and thus it is rare for these texts to be accepted as an article. I would recommend looking in the good article category for an article with a similar subject as your own, and using that as a basis for your own article. However, before spending time it is best to read WP:CORP, WP:V and WP:RS, and checking if your article can meet these policies requirements. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 07:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]