User talk:Adakallstar

Hey, Adakallstar, welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry about the warnings I just gave you; you updated the page with content right before I marked it as a test page (since all I saw in it was the word "test"), and the rest happened automatically. I've taken the deletion notice off of the article, and removed the notices from this page. Thanks, and again, welcome! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:13, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of BluePearl

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A tag has been placed on BluePearl 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.

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Replying to your post on the talk page

Hey, Adakallstar, I wanted to reply here in case the article gets deleted before you get a chance to take a look at it. First, you need to read our policy on conflicts of interest and our guidelines regarding promotional material. In essence, they say that what you're trying to do isn't a good idea. Second, the guideline we have on what should and should not have an article is known as notability. At a bare minimum, any subject of an article must have significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources; this is known as the general notability guideline. There are other, more stringent requirements, depending on the subject. Finally, the text you posted appears to be directly copied and pasted from various subpages of BluePearl's website; this text is copyrighted, and it is incompatible with Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA copyright, to which all submitted text (except brief quotes) must be compatible. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:48, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Replying to Writ Keeper

I understand, and perhaps you can help me with an easier solution. I am working on the page and trying to edit it to make sure it looks right and is working. Additionally, since we own the information, how do we go about "okaying" Wiki to use it? Sources: I have plenty, I haven't added all of them yet and if possible, if you can highlight the information where sources are needed that would be fantastic. If possible, we do not need to delete the whole page, we could just delete the sections that need sourcing until I can provide that. Is this a viable option? Is there someone who I can speak to via telephone or chat? Also, I understand the potential conflict of interest, but if it is factual and historically significant, which it is, would that not be acceptable?--Adakallstar (talk) 16:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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General reply to above threads

At this point, if you're really insistent that you want your own article, then the best thing to do is to let this one be deleted and start again. Giving permission isn't sufficient to use copyrighted text in the way you want to use it; it needs to be actively licensed in a compatible manner, which means allowing free copying, reuse, and modification without needing to ask BluePearl first. Moreover, the material is largely promotional in tone and unsuitable for an encyclopedia article, even if it was compatibly licensed. For one thing, articles should not be written in the first person; words like "we" and "our" should not be used outside direct quotes.

Look, Wikipedia is just not a place for what you're trying to do. Our articles must maintain a neutral point of view, and this is almost always incompatible with the goals of a company that wants a Wikipedia page about themselves. If you really think that you can write an article that is neutral, where all of the information can be verifiably sourced to reliable sources that are independent of your company, then go for it, but I can tell you now that it is extremely unlikely that you'll be able to do so. People with as strong a conflict of interest as you are very rarely able to make the kind of objective judgements that are needed in such an endeavor. This isn't personal; people are strongly discouraged from writing an article about themselves for the same reason. It's just a (very) bad idea.

Keep in mind, too, that having a Wikipedia article is not always a good thing. If you have one, then you do not have any rights to to control its content; you cannot, for example, remove content from your article that you find objectionable, unless it objectively and demonstrably violates one of Wikipedia's policies.

And to answer your other question: no, we cannot make it a draft, because it's still a copyright violation, even if it is placed in a draft area. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:23, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Frankie's Friends

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