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Speedy deletion nomination of IHSA Speech and Forensics

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A tag has been placed on IHSA Speech and Forensics 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 http://www.wnspeech.com/docs/WhatIs.htm. 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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Do I have time to replace the information for my own? Ryanalmer (talk) 16:34, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of IHSA Speech and Forensics

• It looks like you recreated the article but still copied the material. That means it's back up for speedy deletion. —C.Fred (talk) 17:05, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok. I should actually be able to get the information verified from the owner. That was my overall goal in creating the page was to have information from the WN descriptions of events, speech wire results page, and the IHSA rule book combined all in one location. Is there a time frame that I need to get the information verified? Ryanalmer (talk) 18:23, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

My concern is that something like that is outside the scope of an encyclopedia. The IHSA rule book should not be published or excerpted here. General information about speech and debate should already have an article—at least for speech and debate in general, if not specifically high school speech and debate. —C.Fred (talk) 18:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

There is a National Speech and debate page but there is not an IHSA page. The two are very different and there should be a page distinguishing them. Ryanalmer (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Not necessarily. IHSA speech and debate would need to be independently notable. IHSA itself is, but there's not a separate article for each event or sport that IHSA sponsors. —C.Fred (talk) 20:12, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:36, 8 May 2017 (UTC)