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Speedy deletion nomination of Sue Manteris

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A tag has been placed on Sue Manteris requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about it should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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See the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 14:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Re you talkpage note: you are welcome to write an appropriate, sourced article instead of simply posting the subject's resume, which is never acceptable. Television reporters are not automatically notable. I assume you can provide sourcing to newspapers? Please see WP:BIO for notability guidelines, and please refer to WP:BLP for specific information on biographies of living persons, and WP:RS for appropriate sourcing rules. Please remember that unsourced biographies will be deleted either right away, or within a few days. Acroterion (talk) 14:30, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Acroterion (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've done a little copyediting and wikifying to the sandbox article. It is entirely unsourced; if you want to drop links at the bottom of the page to the sources you'd like to use, I'll see if I can format them for you. Did you take the picture you'd like to upload? If not, it is unlikely that the image can be used, as Wikipedia only accepts free-content images. Acroterion (talk) 16:32, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the link to the sandbox: User:Chasm1945/sandbox. I've copied part of our conversation on my talkpage below so you don't have to go hunting on my talkpgage. It describes how to insert an image.

The photograph is still there (you can insert the image by placing [[File:Sue Manteris 6-10-11.png|thumb|right|220px]] at the head of the article), but it might be best to provide confirmation from Mr. Goya that use on Wikipedia projects is acceptable; instructions are at COM:OTRS. As for sourcing, Ms. Manteris is a primary source, and although I'm sure it's all correct, everything must be sourced to secondary sources that have been published. That means news articles, magazines, feature articles, etc. Personal communications are not verifiable, so they can't be used. I assume at some point in her career she's been the subject of a feature article in a newspaper? I see a lot of news sources (that specifically mention her litigation) by Googling. Since you appear to be closely associated with Ms. Manteris, you should review WP:COI for advice on editing under such circumstances. I don't see a problem in this particular case, but there's a lot of information on how to edit constructively when the subject is a personal acquaintance or colleague. Acroterion (talk) 17:07, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The link above to OTRS gives instructions on how to provide confirmation to the Wikipedia Foundation: it involves the photographer emailing from within his domain to establish authorship , ownership and permission. Acroterion (talk) 18:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've fixed the reference issue: you had two reflists, which apparently cancel each other out. I'll do a little more formatting, so the refs aren't bare URLs, and it'll be ready for article space. Acroterion (talk) 13:44, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You need to rewrite the offending content to remove any copyright concerns. Please note that I did not "approve" the article: you can never use copyrighted text verbatim on WP outside of narrowly-defined cases: you must rewrite, which really isn't that hard. Acroterion (talk) 16:18, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Sue Manteris

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A tag has been placed on Sue Manteris 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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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, 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. MikeWazowski (talk) 13:46, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Acroterion (talk) 21:24, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've formatted references, consolidated, and sourced the suit. The Asian Journal feature seems to be downloadable; I'll look at it when I get a chance and see if the article can be sourced from there, rather than from her PR. Acroterion (talk) 17:18, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkpages

Just so you know, the article talkpage is only for discussion related to the improvement of the article: they aren't a forum for discussion of the subject. For a variety of reasons, extending to exclusion of rumor and potential libel, forum-style discussions tend to be discouraged with varying degrees of harshness. Acroterion (talk) 14:52, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've put the Biography project tag on the page, with the standard template for biographies of living persons. You should review WP:BLP, by the way: it gives a good bit of insight into WP culture and editing policies. Acroterion (talk) 14:57, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see the WP editing interface is as non-intuitive as you can imagine - it reminds me of editing in WordStar with command-key characters. While the Wikimedia Foundation goes around trying to interest new editors in coming here, they ignore the single highest bar to editing by new users. Apart from all the policies, guidelines, spoken and unspoken rules and pitfalls, it's quite hard to produce formatted articles without doing it by copying something that already looks pretty good. End of rant. Acroterion (talk) 17:03, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of which, you need to learn to thread your comments: you don't need to add a new topic each time. Just find the last part of the main conversation and indent using colons: each colon indents one tab. Intuitive, no? Not really. Then you won't have thirty threads on my talkpage on Sue Manteris and the conversation stays in the same place. Acroterion (talk) 17:06, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]