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User:MrRadioGuy What's that?/What I Do/Feed My Box 02:24, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Stay in MA article and logo
editHi. I commented on your new article, Stay in MA. Please read my concerns, and please try to address them soon. Otherwise, another editor will likely flag the article for deletion. I will do it myself in about a week if we do not hear anything from you between now and then. I don't want to see that happen. It sounds like a good program, but articles need to be encyclopedic in nature, not advertisements. They also need to have references to reliable sources—the more the better. The link to the Boston Globe is a good start, but that article loses much of its credibility since it is essentially a recapitulation of a press release from the program. The goal of referencing good third-party sources is to establish the notability of the program. If the program is brand new, then try adding sourced comments from public officials talking about how the program will benefit MA. If the program has been around for over a year, then include references that discuss outcomes and how many people have benefited and any qualitative or quantitative improvements it has made to MA. This may seem overwhelming, but Wikipedia does have an obligation to provide informative articles, not just advertisements for programs seeking more exposure. If you need some more suggestions for improvements or have additional questions, please feel free to leave me comments on my talk page.
I will also be flagging the program's image for review. I strongly believe that the wrong permissions tag was used to identify the copyright permissions on it. {{PD-Self}} essentially means that you are the actual artist who created the image and that you are forever giving that logo away into the public domain for anyone else to use, modify, or abuse however they like and without requiring any form of attribution prior to using it. If you are the actual artist, it may be within your legal right to do that, but it still is unlikely to be what you intended, since it is the logo for the program. In fact, if you created the logo on behalf of or while employed by the program, the program may be the actual copyright holder (work-made-for-hire), and then even if you are the artist, you may not have the legal right to give away the logo to the public domain. All the way around, the license seems unlikely.
As a result of the challenge to the license of the logo and my comments on your article, both are likely to be deleted by other users. You could minimize the chances of the article being deleted while you work on improving it by moving the article to your user space. Then you could edit it, and move it back to article space after you have finished editing it. If the article is deleted before you can do that, you are welcome to start the article as a subpage under your own user page, edit it until it meets Wikipedia's guidelines, and then ask an administrator to help you move it back into article space. (Involving an admin will help, because otherwise you will be "recreating a deleted article", and that can be seen as disruptive behavior if the old and new versions are substantially similar. An admin will be able to compare the two versions and give you insight into how to avoid problems or make the move if there appears to be no problem.)
I hope that helps, and I hope you understand that nothing about this is meant as a personal attack against you or your editing. We are just trying to help keep Wikipedia a useful resource for everyone, and that means watching out for articles and images that do not meet the established policies and guidelines. Have a good weekend! —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 04:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Image permission problem with Image:Stayinma.jpg
editThanks for uploading Image:Stayinma.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the image (or other media file) agreed to license it under the given license.
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- make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the image to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the image has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the image's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Images lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 04:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Articles for deletion nomination of Stay in MA
editI have nominated Stay in MA, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stay in MA. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 13:33, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Flybridge Capital Partners
editThe article Flybridge Capital Partners has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NCORP. Just because a business is successful doesn't mean it's notable in the Wikipedia sense.
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will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ubiquity (talk) 16:26, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
The article Flybridge Capital Partners has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Fails WP:NCOR, WP:CORPDEPTH, WP:ORGIND and WP:SIRS. Refs are routine funding, investment news, career annoucements.
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will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. scope_creepTalk 23:39, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Nomination of Flybridge Capital Partners for deletion
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