User talk:Worliman
February 2020
- If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is.
- Writing foor any kind of promotional purpose is not permitted. All Wikipedia articles must be wrtiten from a neutral point of view, which the draft you created certainly wasn't.
- Please don't create multiple copies of the same page under different titles. It serves no useful purpose whatever, and creates various problems, such as making it difficult for editors to keep track of changes. Experience over the years has shown that it is something which is most commonly done by new editors whose purpose is to use Wikipedia for promotional purposes; perhaps they think that multiple copies will serve the purpose of "search engine optimisation". However, whatever your purpose may have been, please don't do it.
- It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. You may not have noticed, but every time you edit any Wikipedia page, there is a notice at the top of the page saying "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted". JBW (talk) 11:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks JBW... revised and simplified in line with above concerns Worliman (talk) 12:40, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm MDanielsBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:From Durban to Tomorrow (film), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.
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Thank you for your attention. MDanielsBot (talk) 02:18, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:From Durban to Tomorrow (film)
Hello, Worliman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "From Durban to Tomorrow".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)