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Your submission at Articles for creation: Key Biodiversity Area (July 30)

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 https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2018-005-En.pdf. 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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User:Andy Plumptre/sandbox/Key Biodiversity Area may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Whispering^(t) 19:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Andy Plumptre! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation 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! Whispering^(t) 19:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia does not accept content which is copyrighted unless it is available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence or something equivalent. This excludes basically all information on the internet. If you add material that appears to be under copyright then we will remove it. If you do have permission from the copyright holder to use the content then you would need to prove that before we can accept that claim. After all you are simply an anonymous person on the internet and could be almost anybody. We do have some instructions here which you can follow to prove that you are indeed representing the copyright owner. However I would suggest you read WP:COI and bear in mind that text from external sources often needs to be rewritten to make it suitable for Wikipedia. Hut 8.5 20:55, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]