Mikeenr

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AfC notification: Draft:Thomas Katsouleas has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Thomas Katsouleas. Thanks! —C.Fred (talk) 23:38, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

fred, thanks for your imput, i am just learning wikipedia, i put the reference in, does that work, also i am not sure what you mean about writing style. can you please give me a good example? thanks, mike

Well, part of the problem was that the draft was copied from a press release, word-for-word. That portion of the draft has been removed as a copyright violation. —C.Fred (talk) 00:54, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

the press release was written by the office i work at the university.....should i rewrite the press release? is the reference part ok? thanks for your help

Well, that changes things a lot. The simple answer is, you should not be trying to create an article about Katsouleas at all. If you work for the university's PR department, you are a paid editor. Paid editors must disclose their employer and that they are editing Wikipedia for money. Further, as an employee of the university, you have a conflict of interest with the school and all its employees, faculty, students, alumni, etc. People with conflicts of interest are strongly discouraged from writing about those topics where they have a conflict.

As for the press release, we really shouldn't be using its wording, period. We can use information from it, but the information is better gotten from secondary sources like newspaper stories. —C.Fred (talk) 01:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Thomas Katsouleas (July 31)

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AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Thomas Katsouleas

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Thomas Katsouleas 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 https://today.uconn.edu/2019/02/uconn-names-thomas-c-katsouleas-16th-president/. 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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July 2020

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Cato T. Laurencin, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)