User talk:Cheryl.garland

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Hello, Cheryl.garland, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as One Big Collection, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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Speedy deletion nomination of One Big Collection

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A tag has been placed on One Big Collection, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Benalla art gallery

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A tag has been placed on Benalla art gallery, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Fæ (talk) 10:39, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development

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A tag has been placed on Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. dalahäst ^{(let's talk!)} 10:47, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

February 2012

The article One Big Collection was an unambiguous infringement of http://www.aboriginalartnews.com.au/2008/08/one-big-collection.php. Please do not copy content from elsewhere to Wikipedia without ensuring that proper copyright release or licensing applies. In practice, not only is material from other web sites rarely acceptable on copyright grounds, but even in those few cases where copyright is not an issue, text from other web sites is almost unacceptable for other reasons, such as being promotional in character. In addition, I see that at Talk:One Big Collection you wrote "This page is not unambiguously promotional, because ... it is a government (public) art gallery. There is no self interest in this ..." Wikipedia's policy is that no sort of promotion is accepted, whether the promotion be in your self-interest or not. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:35, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development

Thanks for email. This article was copied from here. That site claims This web site is copyright © The University of Melbourne 1994-2011, and gives details of the copyright conditions here. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright isn't sufficient. But in any case the copyrighted text is far too promotional to be useful for Wikipedia's purposes, so there would not be any point in your jumping through all the hoops that are required. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Benalla Art Gallery

The page you posted had only the name, address, web-site and telephone number. That's not enough for an encyclopedia article. Read WP:Your first article. As a minimum, you need to say what the gallery is, where it is (remembering that Wikipedia is a global encyclopedia), what it does, and why it is interesting and important enough to have an article in an encyclopedia.

If the article is to be kept, you will also have to establish that it is notable, a Wikipedia term, which is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by showing references to "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have people independent of the subject thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about?

Being non-commercial, or a Good Cause, does not give exemption from the notability requirement.

If you want to take your time about making an article, you can make a draft in your user space - see Help:Userspace draft for how to do that.

Advice:

Take care not to write promotionally - see WP:PEACOCK. Wikipedia is extremely sensitive about anything that looks like advertising or promotion and, yes, it is possible to be promotional about non-commercial subjects. Wikipedia requires a WP:Neutral point of view - plain facts, neutrally stated, backed up by reliable sources. You are not writing for the gallery: you are writing for Wikipedia about the gallery.
Don't copy from the gallery's web-site: (a) as explained above, we cannot host anything published elsewhere (except in rare circumstances where it is explicitly in the public domain or released under a license compatible with Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA) unless a formal copyright release is made; and that is seldom worth doing because websites and the like are usually too promotional. Minor re-wording is not enough to avoid a copyright violation.

You may find the WP:FAQ/Organizations and User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard useful.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]