Khnaatif

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Speedy deletion nomination of Symbion scientific & medical solutions

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September 2011

Your addition to Symbion scientific & medical solutions has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. BelovedFreak 12:01, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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The article was flagged as a copyright violation because it was a copy of http://www.symbion-solutions.com/about-us.php. Wikipedia cannot hold information copied from elsewhere unless a formal copyright release has been made. It is not enough to say that you wrote the material, or that you give permission, because there is no way to be sure that someone on the end of a wire is who he says.

In any case, it is not usually worth giving permission to reproduce a company web-site, because they are written in a promotional tone, and often in the first person: "Our experienced team... we provide full technical support... our well experienced engineers... " That is not an encyclopedia article, it is an advertisement.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business listing directory or a vehicle for any kind of promotion. Articles have to be of enough general interest for an encyclopedia article: the Wikipedia term for that is Notability, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Significant means more than just listing-type mentions; reliable excludes Myspace, Facebook, blogs, places where anyone can post anything; independent excludes the subject's own website, affiliated ones and anything based on press releases. The test is, have other people, independent of the subject, thought it significant enough to write substantial comment about? More detail in Notability (organizations and companies).

Also, articles must be written from a neutral point of view, and so people are strongly discouraged from writing about themselves or their own organizations, because of the conflict of interest involved.

For more advice, read the FAQ/Organizations, in particular the sections headed:

• Why doesn't Wikipedia have an article on my organization?
• I think my organization deserves an article on Wikipedia but none exists. What can I do?

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your apology, but it is absolutely not necessary - in fact, I feel that we should apologise. Wikipedia is so keen to get everyone to come and edit that we do not do a very good job of explaining in advance what Wikipedia is not for, so there is no way you could have known all the things I explained above. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:58, 3 September 2011 (UTC)