User talk:Saharare
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Hello, Saharare, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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before the question. Again, welcome! DES (talk) 22:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Copyright problems with User talk:Saharare
[edit]Hello. Concerning your contribution, User talk:Saharare, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/saharareporters.com. As a copyright violation, User talk:Saharare appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. User talk:Saharare has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.
If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:
- If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at User talk:Saharare and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
- If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at User talk:Saharare with a link to where we can find that note.
- If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL, and note that you have done so on User talk:Saharare.
However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. DES (talk) 22:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Saharare
[edit]You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles. See the Article Wizard.
A tag has been placed on User talk:Saharare, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}}
on the top of User talk:Saharare and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DES (talk) 22:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Deletion of prior user talk page
[edit]Your previous user talk page was, in effect, a "fake article" about saharareporters.com, a website whose notability has not yet been established. If you want to create an actual article about this site or the organization that operates it, you will need to substantiate its notability with citations to independent, reliable sources. See our verifibility policy, our notability guideline for corporations and organizations, and our notability guideline for web sites. If you are, as your user name suggests, involved with saharareporters.com, you should also read our conflict of interest guideline.
Even more important, you may not simply copy text from an existing website, see our copyright guideline. Even if permission to release the text under a free license were granted, it would need to be rewritten with a neutral tone.
Please consider these issues before attempting to recreate a Wikipedia page about saharareporters.com. Thank you. DES (talk) 22:09, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
User Name issues
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.
There are two issues with this:
- You may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
- Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.
Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the policy to not edit in a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.
Specifically your name "Saharare" seems to be a shortened form of "saharareporters" which you wrote an description of for this page (see messages above and deletion log). This makes it appear as if this account is a "role" account or is intended to promote this organization. DES (talk) 23:22, 6 January 2010 (UTC)