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Speedy deletion of Patrick Thompson - Evoke

Latest comment: 15 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

A tag has been placed on Patrick Thompson - Evoke requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Copyright problem

As outlined above, the aticle on Thompson-Evoke has been deleted because it is a copyright violation. It is an exact copy of the copyrighted text here. Since the article was deleted the first time you've put some effort into adding extra links to the artwork list, but unfortunately didn't address the core problem which is the text itself.

If you're actually the copyright holder of the material, there's some advice above about what to do. Otherwise the problem can be easily fixed by rewriting the article in your own words and then reposting it in Wikipedia. You'd still need to meet requirements like notability, but the copyright issue would be resolved.

Feel free to let me know if I haven't explained the deletion well enough, or if I can help regarding a new version of this (or any other) article. Euryalus (talk) 04:11, 7 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi. I notice you have created the article a third time, but still haven't fixed the copyright issue. I've temporarily blocked creation of the article to prevent the restoration of the copyright material and hopefully to give an opportunity to discuss. As above, feel fre to contact me either here or at my talk page if you disagree with this or have any other concern. Euryalus (talk) 04:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your message. The email text looks fine to me, though I'm not the final approval person - that approval would come from permissions-en. This can take a few days - if you don't get one by then feel free to re-send it. As I said there's still a potential notability issue but let's deal with one thing at a time. Sorry to put you through all this bureaucracy - there's just an understandable caution about including copyright text or images.

If for some reason the response comes back as no you can always rewrite the text in your own words, though of course that won't work with the images. Let me know what response you get or if I can help in any other way. Euryalus (talk) 08:04, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

It appears from Talk:Patrick Thompson - Evoke that OTRS permission was granted. Congrats, and once again sorry if the process seemed a little bureaucratic. Euryalus (talk) 04:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC)Reply