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Speedy deletion nomination of Archibald Reith Low

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Archibald Reith Low requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Archibald Reith Low

Hi, a few remarks about this article. 1/ I have deleted it as a violation of copyright. 2/ Even if the journal would relinquish the copyright, an obituary is not encyclopedic. Please see WP:NOTMEMORIAL. 3/ If, as you stated on the article's talk page, Archibald Reith Low is your grandfather, then you have a conflict of interest and would do better not to edit an article about him. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 15:00, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We have already discussed inserting matter from your grandfather's obituary in the Vickers F.B.5 article. If you can find a reliable source then run it past us, otherwise raise a comment thread on the talk page for the article. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 07:33, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Fondation du Mérite européen

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A tag has been placed on Fondation du Mérite européen 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.merite-europeen.eu/. 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.

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.

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I saw your message on my talk page[1] and I gather from the above that you are following the Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials process. I assume that is in regards to the text and not just the images you mentioned on my talk page, and that you have read and understood that the material cannot be licensed just for use on Wikipedia and will be subject to modification by other editors. That's fine and it won't involve me in any way - not being an administrator, I can't restore the article. But it would be unfriendly of me not to mention a few other points about the article that you'll need to take into account. I'll provide links to a few policies and guidelines as I do.
As webmaster and website host and having "full authority from the Fondation to do anything I like", you appear to have a conflict of interest, which in Wikipedia is not restricted to mere pecuniary interest; in a nutshell, Do not edit Wikipedia in your own interests or in the interests of your external relationships. Please do read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
This encyclopedia is extensive but it does not have articles on everything; notability must be established. Wikipedia:Notability expands on the nutshell "Wikipedia articles cover notable topics—those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time" and explains how notability is established by using reliable third-party sources. The article had none.
When another editor tagged the article as lacking third-party sources, you did not rectify the situation, you simply deleted the tag. Please do not do that again. Such actions disrupt the normal collegiate process of developing the encyclopedia and can lead to editors being blocked.
The purposes of an independent encyclopedia article and an organisation's own website are very different, with consequences for style and content. I did not spend very long looking at the article, but I remember stylistic tics such as many uses of honorifics and even titles such as "monsieur", "Mr" and "Frau" with sudden CAPITALISATION of some surnames,and an entirely excessive listing of all the members of the foundation. I don't recall seeing many WP:PEACOCK terms but the style and content were more WP:PROMOTIONAL than WP:NEUTRAL.
If after reading those various policies and guidelines you still want to try to create an article about the foundation, then you might do well to look at the project page Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards and prizes and seek advice and collaborative support at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Awards and prizes. There you will find editors very familiar with the problems of establishing the notability of awards, which is quite distinct from the notability of award recipients.
Mention of collaboration brings me to one last point, which I touched on when I mentioned the deletion of tags. You'll notice that I never wrote "your article", only "the article". If you begin the article afresh, you will not WP:OWN it and will not have control over it. It may come to include negative material and so long as that passes the same tests as the other material, there will be nothing you can do to exclude it. If you kept trying to exclude such material, you could wind up being blocked from editing Wikipedia and regretting ever having started an article which had taken such a turn. NebY (talk) 21:06, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vickers F.B. 5 article

The following is copied from my talk page --Soundofmusicals (talk) 20:19, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the edit, as I am ARL's grandson and heard this and other stories from the great man himself.

The pilot of the FB1 that crashed was killed and the design was deemed a failure, despite my grandfather traipsing across an Irish bog to get to the plane, where he dismantled the engine to discover the lack of oil. He was on his own and therefore not witnesssed.

I suppose that the reference to the entry can be me: Mr Giles Duncan Edmondston-Low TD

I have the obituary that my father (Mr Richard Cecil Edmondston-Low CEng, AFRAeS, FBIS (1909-1982) wrote for The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, April 1970. If you would like it, you would be welcome to have it. Wikipedia won't publish an obituary, even if the RAeS released the copyright, but I leave the rest up to you.

You can contact me on giles@the-it-department.net

Giles

The above (with a little detective work) turns out to be about the Vickers F.B.5 article. It seems to me to be common sense (perhaps I am just old-fashioned in imagining there is such a thing), but DO "digitally sign" your posts with four tildes "~" signs so we know who we're talking to - and do give a clear indication of the article we're talking about. Obituaries (and other "anecdotal" sources) are NOT "encyclopedic" - this has nothing directly to do with copyright as such, it's just that they are notoriously subject to error: including errors of transmission, not to mention the tendency for human memory to muddle different real (and imaginary) events. Without going onto great detail, The event described seems on the face of it highly unlikely. Unlikely events do (rarely) happen, but they cry out for a "reliable source". Independent (and documented) confirmation in fact. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 20:19, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above still applies. Please do not re-insert this matter without a reliable source, please. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 07:36, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Fondation du Mérite européen

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Fondation du Mérite européen requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Fondation du Mérite européen (January 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fondation du Mérite européen (January 28)

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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Primefac (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fondation du Mérite européen (January 31)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by EoRdE6 was:

This submission provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please see the guide to writing better articles for information on how to better format your submission.

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EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 02:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Fondation du Mérite européen

Hello, GilesLow. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Fondation du Mérite européen".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 16:04, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]