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Happy editing! P. D. Cook ^{Talk to me!} 23:02, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 11)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

You might want to replace the social media citations and source every statements.

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ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:10, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MJ2257! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:10, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Nicholas Halley (October 14)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://www.pelagosmusic.com/Current/pages/Artists%20Pages/ArtistsOther.html, https://www.lampns.ca/concert-schedule/summer-jazz-series, https://capellaregalis.com/our-team. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Nicholas Halley may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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—Alalch E. 12:04, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Nicholas Halley has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Nicholas Halley. Thanks! —Alalch E. 12:12, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Please do not remove the {{copyvio/core}} template from articles, as you did with Draft:Nicholas Halley. Your action has been reverted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept non-free text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted, and removing copyright notices will not help your case. You can properly contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are the owner of the material, you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN. Alternatively, you are welcome to create a draft in your own words at Draft talk:Nicholas Halley/Temp. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators and/or removers of the copyright notice templates will be blocked from editing. —Alalch E. 13:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am Nick Halley's personal assistant. The work you have claimed is copy-righted is actually my own work, which has been requested by other sources such as peglagos and chamberfest, when providing a biography. Pelagosmusic is a website which allows outside sources to purchase music by Nick and Paul Halley. The biography on peglagos has been written by myself or my colleagues on Nick's team. I have not copied biographies and that are not my own, and have means to prove it. If you can help me remove the copyright accusation, that would be greatly appreciated. MJ2257 (talk) 14:04, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for sharing these facts. You incorporated parts of your own copyrighted work into Wikipedia. When you do this you avail yourself of your exclusive rights to this content by using it, copying it, and modifying it as you see fit. However, Wikipedia does not give you a right to do this to the full extent of your exclusive rights on Wikipedia. You can do that on your own website or some website with a policy that allows that, but not automatically just on any website, because when you interact with a website, you are beholden to that website's terms of service. Your exclusive rights over your work do not give you any rights over Wikipedia. While the situation is great on your end, it is bad on our end. Wikipedia imposes an obligation on all users to supply a free license with all of the content, so that it becomes free content. This is necessary so that others may further copy the content, modify it, mirror the entire website, et cetera... and so that you lose any exclusive rights over the content, because that is necessary for the collaborative model to work. The content which you added is copyrighted, it would need to be or become free content, and it cannot while it is published on another website where it is copyrighted. For example www.pelagosmusic.com would need to state that the website's copyright license is a particular free license for the content to be compatible with Wikipedia.

It ultimately does not matter at all that you are the author. There's nothing to prove, the facts are self-evident, and the revisions will be deleted. What I posted is a notification, not an accusation. There are no negative consequences in this for you. Your contributions are still welcome. You are only expected to learn from this event and continue editing without adding content with an incompatible license. This is a common occurrence and mistakes are tolerated.

So please write new prose for the draft using only reliable, secondary sources. Please beware Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Separately from this, I will notify you about conflict of interest. When I do this, I will also not accuse you of anything, because someone having a conflict of interest is an objectivized description of a situation, not a judgment about a person's opinions, integrity, or good faith.

Sincerely —Alalch E. 14:40, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MJ2257. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Nicholas Halley, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. —Alalch E. 14:40, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see especially Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure because it would appear that you should be classified as a paid editor. (This is also not an accusation; there are multiple established and respected paid editors.) —Alalch E. 14:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]