User talk:LydiaAlexa

Speedy deletion nomination of Obesity Medicine Association

Hello LydiaAlexa,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Obesity Medicine Association for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Template:Z166

CapitalSasha ~ talk 07:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to contest the deletion of the Obesity Medicine Association wikipedia page. As a member of the OMA Board of Trustees, I have the permission of the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) to publish this page as an explanation of what this medical organization does. I reviewed other wikipedia pages of similar organizations such as the American College of Endocrinology (ACE), American College of Physicians (ACP), American Medical Association (AMA) and the stub pages for The Obesity Society (TOS) to understand the best way to publish a medical society/organization page. The information listed on the page is factual with links directly back to the OMA website as reference. Please let me know what changes I need to make to this page for it to be published on Wikipedia - how is this page different than the pages of the medical associations I have listed and what changes should be made to comply with your standards.

Sincerely, Lydia C. Alexander, M.D. Internal Medical, Board Certified American Board of Obesity Medicine, certified Diplomate Obesity Medicine Association, Board Member/Trustee

Hi! The page Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission has information on how to document that you have the right to use text from another source, and that that source has allowed Wikipedia to distribute it under the CC-BY-SA license that Wikipedia uses. However, usually text from an organization's homepage does not work very well on Wikipedia because Wikipedia articles are supposed to adhere to Wikipedia's policies of neutral point of view, verifiability, and reliable sources. I would be happy to help you work on your draft article until it's ready to be published as a Wikipedia article. Would you like me to move the text you've put on your user page into the "Draft" namespace so we can work on it and get it into good shape? CapitalSasha ~ talk 07:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, absolutely. I would appreciate that. Could you copy rather than move the page so that I can compare 'before' and 'after'.

thanks so much for your time.

I've moved the page to Draft:Obesity Medical Association and we can work on it there. You can always use the "History" tab at the top of the page to compare different versions. CapitalSasha ~ talk 19:02, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great. How do we begin?