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Your submission at Articles for creation: Emergency Volunteer Respect Act (Queensland, Australia) (September 13)

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.rfbaq.org/index.php?tgtPage=news&page_id=155. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence 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.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Emergency Volunteer Respect Act (Queensland, Australia) 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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Mduvekot (talk) 20:26, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Tranceport26, 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! Mduvekot (talk) 20:26, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mduvekot. Thanks. Disappointing, as only one very small section was the same as that found on our own website. Even more disappointing was that I was not able to remedy the situation as the page was simply deleted by another user. Tranceport26 (talk) 03:30, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tranceport26 I noticed you've contacted the administrator who deleted the draft. It is possible for an administrator to undo a deletion, so you might want to ask them to do so, while suppressing the copyvio. Your other option would be to make sure that the text you have copied has a suitable license. You may find Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources helpful. Mduvekot (talk) 13:11, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Mduvekot. As you have seen I've left the user a message, so we await his/her reply. Very glad to hear that the deletion can be undone if I can work through the issue. This is (obviously!) my first article, so am learning as I go. Tranceport26 (talk) 13:50, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]