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Stephen Granger

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Speedy deletion nomination of Stephen Granger

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A tag has been placed on Stephen Granger 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://arrowhead-authentication.com/About%20Dr%20Granger.htm. 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.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — 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 or image 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 this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. schetm (talk) 18:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright, references and notability

Wikipedia cannot accept copyright material, not even in sandboxes or draft pages, not even temporarily. Please read Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources.

Assertion of permission to use text is not enough; we have to be certain that the person giving a release has the authority to do so, and that the actual copyright holder understands and agrees to Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license terms, which allow any reader to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial. For those reasons, a formal copyright release is required, as described at WP:Donating copyrighted materials.

However, it is unlikely that simply copying the subject's website will make an acceptable encyclopedia article. You said on the talk page that you were posting the article at Dr Granger's request, but Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about themselves, for reasons explained at Wikipedia:Autobiography. An article should be based more on what other people say about the subject than on what he says about himself, and Wikipedia's inclusion criterion, called Wikipedia:Notability, looks for references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See also Wikipedia:Notability (people) and Wikipedia:Notability (academics).

The best way for you to proceed would be to read WP:Your first article, collect independent references such as reviews of Dr Granger's work, and use the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process to guide you through preparing an article. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your message on my talk page

I'm afraid saying that you have "permission to use information on Wikipedia" is not enough. To make a copyright release, it is necessary to follow the steps described in WP:Donating copyrighted materials. The easiest way is for the owner of the site to place explicit permission on it, in the form of words given there; alternatively, permission can be given by email from an address associated with the source site.

It is important to use the form of words prescribed there. Permission restricted to "use on Wikipedia" is not enough, because Wikipedia is published under the CC-BY-SA license which allows any reader to copy, modify, and use for any purpose including commercial, and we need to be assured that the actual copyright owner understands and agrees to that.

That content would not by itself be acceptable as an article. Wikipedia has an inclusion criterion called Wikipedia:Notability which looks for references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." See also WP:Notability (summary) and WP:Notability (people). Since Granger is "considered one of the foremost experts on Native American Artifacts and Cultures" references showing that should be available, such as independent reviews of his books or other comments on his work in academic journals, and the article will need to cite them, both to show notability and because of the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy, summarised as: "any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source".

I am sorry if the copyright requirements seem bureaucratic, but copyright is an important issue because, since Wikipedia publishes under a free license, publishing copyright material could cause serious legal problems if readers copy and use it. If copyright is sorted out, I will restore the article into a draft space where you can work on it.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:55, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]