User talk:Joepanic

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August 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page James Kakande has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.myspace.com/jameskakande.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Nils Ruzicka

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A tag has been placed on Nils Ruzicka 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 https://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Nils-Ruzicka/461448617267349?sk=info. 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.

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A couple points in response to your comments on the soon-to-be-deleted talk page:

1. First of all, while it was very close to the content on the official website, it was an exact copy-paste of the content on the Facebook page. For reasons why this is not acceptable, see WP:Copy-paste.
2. A very close copy of a copyrighted work is also still a copyright violation. See WP:Copy-paste#Can I copy and paste if I change the text a little bit? and WP:Close paraphrasing.
3. If the content belongs to you and you want to use it on Wikipedia, you must go throught the process at WP:Donating copyrighted materials. NOTE: this will mean other people, groups, and companies will be able to use the content, not just Wikipedia.
4. Notwithstanding the above, you should avoid creating an article about yourself. If you are notable then someone other than you or somone you know will write an article about you. If the only way to get an article on Wikipedia is to write it yourself or ask someone to write it for you, then odds are you are not notable yet. See also WP:Autobiography and WP:Conflict of interest. Singularity42 (talk) 22:06, 10 August 2013 (UTC)