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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Idjelassi/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Idjelassi/sandbox 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://www.nato-pa.int/content/david-hobbs. 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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Articles

Hello Idjelassi and sorry for having had to nominate your page for deletion, the thing is just that we can't republish copyrighted material (except when it's published under a compatible license). You can have a look at WP:Your first article, we try to cite multiple reliable independant sources and summarize them. You can use the Articles for creation process to submit your articles for review. – Thjarkur (talk) 17:04, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Article creation

Moved from User talk:Þjarkur

Hello Pjarkur, Thank you for your message. You decide to delete me which is perplexing. I work for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the content I added for my boss, Mr David Hobbs, is neither offence nor incorrect. In fact, I am best place to ensure that any biography added is correct. I have never used Wikipedia before and I must say that the process is complicated but before deleting perhaps help for new contributor should be provided first. How do I proceed now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idjelassi (talk • contribs) 12:04, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello Idjelassi, the only reason the page was deleted was because it was a copyright violation (it was copy-pasted word for word from a copyrighted page), not because the information was incorrect. We try to remove copyright violations as soon as possible. I agree that Wikipedia is very difficult to get started with, it does take a some time to get used to editing here but it's doable. Writing an article from scratch is not an easy thing to do, we usually recommend doing small edits to already existing articles to understand the process. You should also read our conflict of interest guidelines, we recommend that people declare if they have a conflict of interest, I've added the declaration to your userpage. If you are getting paid for editing Wikipedia, you also need to declare that.

So, to create an article on Hobbs you can go to Articles for creation, write an article which summarizes reliable secondary sources, and then submit the article for review. I will also post a standard message here below which contains some information about conflict of interest editing.

– Thjarkur (talk) 18:11, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Idjelassi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. – Thjarkur (talk) 18:11, 5 December 2019 (UTC)