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Happy editing! Acroterion (talk) 00:36, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish Suffrage/ttes event

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Lirazelf (talk) 12:37, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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LesleyMitchell (talk) 18:12, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Draft:Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild

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The page Draft:Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appeared to be a direct copy from https://theses.gla.ac.uk/475/1/2008WrightPhD.pdf and https://womenssuffragescotland.wordpress.com/main-sections/women-as-active-citizens-politics-and-feminism-in-interwar-scotland/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been 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.

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Hi I am Valerie Wright the author of the thesis and article you have cited in the copyrighted materials. This was a very rough draft of a page that I completed today in a wiki workshop (based on a talk I had given on my own archival research completed). Am I not allowed to keep working on it to make it compliant with wiki standards? That's why I added 'citation needed' so that I could return to it and add references to my own published work. I had a trainer look it over today and give me feedback. ValerieWright10 (talk) 17:01, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did notice that your username and the name on the thesis are the same. However, you can't post copyright material on Wikipedia, even if you are the copyright holder, unless it's released under a compatible license. Wikipedia has procedures in place for this purpose. Please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. The draft can be restored if and when this happens.

A separate issue: Some of the content was a match for material at https://womenssuffragescotland.wordpress.com/main-sections/women-as-active-citizens-politics-and-feminism-in-interwar-scotland/, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. That's not a compatible license, because it doesn't allow commericial use, and our license does. — Diannaa (talk) 17:11, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I understand that we'll need a complete re-working to formalise the prose and make this more in keeping with wiki's style. So, less of my 'voice' to avoid copy-right infringement. a focus on verifiable facts, quotes, references etc.

Is there a way that we can delete the content but keep the page so that I can start again at another point? We have another workshop on the 18th November. ValerieWright10 (talk) 17:38, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can start a new draft at the same title if you like. — Diannaa (talk) 17:51, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]