User talk:AZimmermanDunedin

Welcome![edit]

Hello, AZimmermanDunedin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Draft:Dunedin Public Library. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 22:14, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the draft of the article about (I presume) your library; it currently reads as a directory listing and not an encyclopedic article. Things like the "mission", hours, and services offered aren't the sorts of things that are in Wikipedia articles. I would suggest you review some other articles on libraries to get a feel of what they generally consist of; I would offer Lithgow Public Library, my library, as an example, but you should look at others. I would lastly reiterate that, if you are an employee of the library, you are required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use to comply with the paid editing policy and declare such status. If you have any questions, please ask and I will do my best to answer, or you can visit the Teahouse, a place for new users to ask questions, or the Help Desk. 331dot (talk) 22:17, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello AZimmermanDunedin, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Dunedin Public Library has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:56, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would gently suggest that if the draft was submitted as it stands now, it should be declined, as it reads like a promotional brochure about the library. That may not be your intention, but that's the way I see it. It has no independent reliable sources at all. It probably shouldn't contain specific operational information about the library like its hours and specific services. I again suggest that you look at some other articles on libraries to get a feel for how they are structured(such as my library, Lithgow Public Library). If you have any questions, please post them here. 331dot (talk) 23:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Dunedin Public Library (Florida) concern[edit]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Dunedin Public Library (Florida), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:33, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dunedin Public Library (Florida) (September 15)[edit]

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Needs a couple WP:INDEPENDENT sources to establish notability.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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~Kvng (talk) 15:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! AZimmermanDunedin, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! ~Kvng (talk) 15:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dunedin Public Library (Florida) (September 15)[edit]

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 http://www.dunedingov.com/index.aspx?page=343. 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. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

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Worldbruce (talk) 15:18, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Even if this were rewritten to avoid copyright violation, or if the city donated the text to Wikipedia, it has two other major problems. First, it does not cite a range of independent, reliable, secondary sources. Time spent doing research in a library would probably turn up coverage in books on local history and in local newspapers. Second, it fails to cite any international, national, or at least regional source to show that the topic is of more than purely local interest. Searches of Tallahassee (or at least Tampa) newspapers and national journals and magazines focused on libraries might find something that would justify inclusion in Wikipedia. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:20, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]