David Ballantine

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I have added a fair use rationale to this image page, please review and correct as necessary. The other two will probably be deleted, but as they are duplicates I assume they were uploaded in error. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 12:07, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Judo Scotland

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Please stop making new pages

Until you read about how to create a redirect. We have to fix every page you make unless you use this format: #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE TO REDIRECT TO]] FlyingToaster 08:38, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Tennis Scotland

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Squash

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Target Shooting Federation

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Gymnastics

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Hockey Union

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Fencing

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Triathlon Association

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Tenpin Bowling Association

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Speedy deletion of Table Tennis Scotland

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Women's Bowling Association

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Speedy deletion of Category talk:Scottish organisation stubs

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Amateur Weightlifters Association

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Speedy deletion of Scottish Wrestling Association

A tag has been placed on Scottish Wrestling Association, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant 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 as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Please stop

You seem to be creating a series of articles with the names of Scottish sports simply to link to the page of one organization. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has a strict policy against advertising and self-promotion. Please read over the two links in the previous sentence. If you have any questions about how you can contribute to Wikipedia more constructively, please do not hesitate to ask me on my talk page. FlyingToaster 08:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Scottish disability sport

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Speedy deletion of Category talk:Charities based in Scotland

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December 2008

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Scottish disability sport, you will be blocked from editing. FlyingToaster 08:48, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Typo redirect Scottish Bowling Association

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This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you use Wikipedia for advertising, as you did with 2014 Commonwealth Games, you will be blocked from editing. FlyingToaster 08:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Scottish Archery Association

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Speedy deletion of Sports Development Foundation Scotland

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Speedy deletion of Sports Development Foundation Scotland

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Cut and paste copyright violations

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The Sports Development Foundation Scotland

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Blocked for persistent copyright violations

David, I am not sure what we have to do to get through to you so I am left with no option but to temporarily block your account from editing. As has been stated a number of times - on this page, at the deletion review, and in the deletion logs - Wikipedia cannot accept text which has been cut and pasted from another source (unless that source has specifically released the text under GFDL).

Whilst you are unable to edit, perhaps you could use the time to familiarise yourself with our copyright policy. If you are also the author of the source text, that page will also explain how, as a copyright owner, you can release the text for use on Wikipedia although as it reads a bit like a press release I would probably recommend that you just re-write something in your own words with a more encyclopaedic tone. Aside from your editing block, the SDFS article titles are also blocked from creation at the moment (also becasue of the copyright issue) so a good idea would be write the new text in your own user space and then it can be vetted and moved in to the mainspace by an administrator who can unlock the target page at the same time.

I would like to make it clear that the problem is not with SDFS per se - it would appear to be a notable organisation - but with the fact that the text you have introduced so far has been a cut and paste job from another website so as long as you can put something together which is encyclopaedic, properly sourced and not copied from elsewhere then I see no reason why it would be deleted. Kind regards, Nancy ^talk 12:26, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Unblocking

David has confirmed his identity and association with the SDFS and released the SDFS logo image as GFDL and CC dual licensed in email to OTRS (ticket # 2008121210019742 ). David contacted us from a SDFS email address and included SFDS staff information including his name. Information from the SDFS website is also something David is authorized to release, though he has not sent in a confirmation doing so yet.

Per this confirmation that he is an agent and staffmember of the organization and is releasing the images under WP compatible licenses (GFDL and CC). I am unblocking David's account at this time.

David, I am going to email you this as well, but I would like to look at the comments above from Nancy and others, and keep those in mind as you continue editing in the future. Please make sure that you properly mark the source of future contributions, and list that you're an agent of the source and that the text is released under GFDL and/or CC. As Nancy also said, keeping contributions encyclopedic is also important.

Good luck editing Wikipedia in the future! Please feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have further questions or need help. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 22:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: undeletion request

Hi David and welcome back, I just revisted the text of the deleted article and I'm afraid that at this point it cannot be restored as it is a copyright violation (being a cut and paste from this page). I have checked for copyright releases and as confirmed by this note from Georgewilliamherbert above, the only release which Wikipedia has thus far recieved is for the SDFS logo image.

With regard to your other points, I can't really comment on the process for releasing copyrights - that's a foundation issue but I imagine it is as it is because of the potential legal problems that anything more lax would cause. Secondly, your block, it was only for a week (expired on the 19th December) and as I explained at the time it was a measure of last resort as you kept posting the copyright material.

Moving forward there are two options. You could either go through the formal process again to release the text to GFDL (not sure if you will be able to do this as the text in question is marked Copyright of BlogCatalog), or, the easier and quicker option you could just write couple of paragraphs in your own words. As I have said previously the issue was never with the article subject as SDFS would appear to meet the notability criteria for organisations, however when you are writing the new piece please do keep in the back of your mind that your close association with the organisation will require you to be extra careful to keep the article objective, neutral and verified by multiple, independent, secondary sources. You also need to ensure that the article does not contain promotional material - for example previous incarnations have solicited donations which is a big no-no on Wikipedia. Good luck & all the best for 2009, kind regards, Nancy ^talk 09:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

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Good evening David, Sports Development Foundation Scotland is not protected from editing and that is the right title to use - we don't use definite articles in titles except in unusual circumstances e.g. The Who has one but National Trust has not. Kind regards, Nancy ^talk 22:37, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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