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Speedy deletion nomination of Benjamin B. Talley

Hello Tomblues41,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Benjamin B. Talley for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

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Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:09, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Tom, I saw that you created the article Benjamin B. Talley. Unfortunately, it was deleted because Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from other sources (See WP:COPYVIO). I do believe that he is notable though, so I'd like to help you write a good article. I have started a draft on him at Draft:Benjamin B. Talley, where we can work on making sure it meets Wikipedia's policies. If you would like to e-mail me, go to my user page and click on the 'E-mail this user' button. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:22, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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That's just a start-- we have a lot of policies! but hopefully you will find this helpful! I encourage you to contribute to Draft:Benjamin B. Talley and I can help you there on the article. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:30, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

The page has been created at Benjamin B. Talley; let me know what you think. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:18, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Benjamin B. Talley

To reply to your comment on the talk page that "All they want to do is honor these soldiers, so I doubt they will know or care the text is there for the time being" - I'm sorry, it doesn't work like that here. Articles can't contain text lifted from copyrighted sources. It doesn't matter whether the person who owns the copyright knows or cares about it, it's still wrong (and still illegal). This doesn't stop you from writing another article about this person, and it sounds like he may well be a suitable subject for an article, but you need to write it in your own words instead of plagiarising someone else's. Hut 8.5 20:22, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

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