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Sincerely, S0091 (talk) 22:49, 22 November 2020 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)Reply

November 2020 edit

  Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Adam Jensen, from its old location at User:Puffer Fishman/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055talk - contribs 22:55, 22 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated. Puffer Fishman (talk) 22:34, 25 November 2020 (UTC)Puffer FishmanReply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Adam Jensen (music producer) (December 6) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work. Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:55, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Puffer Fishman! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:55, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia and copyright edit

  Hello Puffer Fishman, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Draft:Adam Jensen (music producer) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:56, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Clarification about copyright edit

Hi there, with regard to this comment you left on another editor's talk page, you should be aware of a few things, the first being that basically every creative work (even mundane, seemingly non-"creative" things like advertising copy) are considered copyrighted as soon as they are fixed, i.e. put out in some recorded form. You should probably read Berne Convention. So only when something is expressly released into the public domain or to the public through Creative Commons licensing would you have the ability to say that "NOTHING IN THE PAGE IS IS COPYRIGHTED. NOTHING." In the first first edit to the draft article you submitted on 22 November 2020, I see the phrasing "Adam Jensen is an American alternative recording artist, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Boston. Jensen's single "The Mystic" was premiered by", which I can also find in this Google cached version of peopleai.com from 14 November 2020, which suggests very strongly that the content existed elsewhere before it was added into the draft article. While basic facts and information aren't copyrightable, how those facts are expressed can be. As for "I have taken a lot of the info from the artists own page, which is expressly copyright free." I'm not sure what site you're referring to, but if there is no clear copyright release on that website, there would be no legitimate claim that the content was free to use, for the reasons stated above. If you wish to respond, please feel free to do so below. Regards. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:40, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion of Draft:Adam Jensen (music producer) edit

 

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The page Draft:Adam Jensen (music producer) has been deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. As the page met any of these strictly-defined criteria, it was deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been deleted are:

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Cabayi (talk) 11:38, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply