Democratic Engagement

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Speedy Deletion

Hi, I noticed you are contesting the speedy deletion of the article you created. I have a few things worthy of mention to you.

• When you use the {{tl:hangon}} template, you must include the rationale behind it on the article's talk page. If you cannot find the talk page please click the tab entitled Discussion at the top of the article's page.
• You appear, based on your other comments, to be employed by this organization. Wikipedia has a conflict of interest policy that states editors who are directly affiliated with an organization should refrain from making edits to it. This is to keep the encyclopedia neutral and to make sure the article is not biased towards or against its subject.
• Lastly, the article's text appears to be almost entirely taken from another source, unless you are authorized by the owner of the source information to release it fully and completely under the GFDL (a public content license), the content does constitute a copyright violation and needs to be removed.

Sorry to hit you with all this at once but its all very important stuff I promise.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 17:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Youth Citizenship Commission. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)