ItsVonTae

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Hi, thanks for message. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. (organizations and companies) (people) It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, or they will be deleted. I'm not convinced that he meets the notability criteria anyway.
• it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: a multifaceted skilled worker... always stood out as the most musically inclined... reclaimed his newfound passion for music... starting singing at the early age of 7... — and so on
• The spam links in the text to your albums are also unacceptable. There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections, and spam links to sales pages are always likely to lead to deletion.
• Quoting his self-promoting comments is also spamming.
• Basically, the deleted text is long on opinions and spamming and short on facts.
• Your images are copyright violation. Copyrighted images not allowed in Wikipedia. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. The copyright for the album artwork almost certainly belongs to the publishers, and will not be public domain.
• You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. Thank you for declaring your interest. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that you are is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 20:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure as t how to reply and how to message you through the link you sent me. It would be better if we spoke through email or something of the sort. I'm not too familiar with Wikipedia. I'm new.

You can just write messages here like you just did. Jimfbleak pretty much covered everything I could say and in much better words; I'll just add that the text you contributed appears to be copyrighted material pasted from another site without explicit permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, there are ways to donate material, but hopefully you can see from Jimfbleak's note that there isn't much point in this case. But please understand that for legal reasons Wikipedia can not accept copyrighted material without the proper licenses; Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 20:51, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Everything that was typed onto the article was typed and wasn't copied and pasted from another site. Yes, things may be similar but that is due to the fact that everything is factual. Would it help, if I could go back and fix things so that the page could be approved. Like I said, I'm new to creating a Wikipedia page and it would mean a lot to me if I was given another chance to work on the page. The photos that are on the page, are owned by me personally because I took the photography. If none of the options I requested are possible could you please send me a link to where I can have someone else create the page for me. I'm creating this page for friend of mines who is a singer-songwriter.

Ah! I beg your pardon! I misspoke; the copyrighted text I was referring to was in the version that I deleted, which *you* did not write, as far as I can tell. Sorry about that!!! ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 22:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

To answer your other comments; to upload pictures you own the main point is that you need to explicitly license them appropriately; see the wikimedia commons UploadWizard. To ask someone else to create it, see: Wikipedia:Requested articles. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 22:05, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

For the album covers, you may have taken the photographs, but you do not own the copyright of the album artwork (read the album cover). I could take my own photographs of every page of Gone Girl, but if I then posted them on the Internet, the publishers would sue me. It's the same for copyrighted images Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

You can recreate the article at any time, but unless the problems I have listed are fixed, it will be deleted again Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:58, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

How can I recreate the page, I would like to try to add more references and fix the mistakes. It's important for this page to be created.

If this is your friend, please don't create the page. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

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