Matt at the RSA

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Username issue, organizational usernames are not allowed

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December 2022

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Royal Scottish Academy", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Gareth Fisher

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Gareth Fisher requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/news/19 and https://academiciansgallery.org/artists/336-gareth-fisher-rsa/biography/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material 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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Hi,

I appreciate you flagging this with us. As the page was just a draft and had no intention of being live yet, I find it absolutely absurd that it's been completely deleted with no option to contest.

I was using text from the our website to inform the article about our institution (I work for the institution) that I wrote myself, and was in the process of formatting, rewriting, and making sure everything was 'done by the books'. As my work day was coming to an end, I saved the page as a draft. I've come back into work today to find it's all been deleted. Is this revertible? I spent a good few hours on it.

If it's gone forever, I'd like to file a complaint about exceptionally over-zealous admin and moderation. Is a person expected to write an entire wiki page in one day? And source/format everything in a few hours? It was a very obvious work in progress. Matt at the RSA (talk) 10:00, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

For policy and legal reasons, copyrighted text is not allowed to exist at all on Wikipedia, even for a short time. Draft articles are not exempt from this policy. If you are using copyrighted text as the basis of your writing, make sufficient modifications to it offline before posting it into any Wikipedia page.

Alternatively, the authorized copyright owner can donate the text through the prescribed process. However, doing so means that the text will be released for use by anyone for any purpose, since Wikipedia content is freely copyable by anyone in the world. Authorizing the release of copyrighted text or images to Wikipedia is both permanent and irrevocable.

Please note that because you are writing on behalf of the RSA, your existing conflict of interest declaration is not sufficient. You have a higher level of disclosure because you are considered to be a paid editor per Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure policy. You do not have to be paid specifically to edit Wikipedia for this policy to apply; merely being employed by the organization you're writing about is enough to trigger this policy. Therefore, you will have to replace the {{UserboxCOI}} template on your userpage with the {{paid}} template to be in compliance. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)