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Speedy deletion nomination of Indiana university dance marathon

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A tag has been placed on Indiana university dance marathon 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. GabrielF (talk) 00:33, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Deletion

Hi,

I'm responding to your post on my talk page regarding the deletion of your article. There were a few problems with your article. The first is that the text was copied from your website. For legal reasons we can't accept copyrighted work. You can donate the text to Wikipedia. The process is outlined in the preceding link. In certain cases this would be an appropriate solution However, you should consider that promotional text from an organiztion's website isn't really appropriate for wikipedia - our arties are supposed to be objective and encyclopedic and that's not really possible when the content is written by the subject of the article. We have a policy on conflicts of interest which you should familiarize yourself with. Finally, it's not clear to me that your organization owns all of the text in the article - some text appeared to be promotional material for Riley Hospital which was on a number of websites. My suggestion to you is that if you want to write an article on your organization for Wikipedia you should write something short in your own words that specifically cites secondary sources such as newspaper articles. I hope that helps. GabrielF (talk) 06:14, 23 December 2011 (UTC)