Metaxaskid

Speedy deletion nomination of Institute of Policy Alternatives of Montréal

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A tag has been placed on Institute of Policy Alternatives of Montréal, requesting that it be 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. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of http://ipamontreal.org/en/a-propos/mission/?lang=en. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites 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.

  If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:13, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Copyright, notability and conflict of interest

Thank you for your interest in creating an article for Institute of Policy Alternatives of Montréal on Wikipedia. There are multiple problems with your submission. You cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder. In short, a copyright owner cannot offer Wikipedia a one-time license for use. Rather, the copyright to the material has to be released – permanently and irrevocably – into the public domain or under a free copyright license that is compatible with Wikipedia's licenses. This is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, so all content must be licensed for that purpose. You can learn more about this policy at Wikipedia:Copyrights.

The second problem is notability. I am not sure the organization you are writing about is notable enough, as Wikipedia defines it, to have an article. We require write-ups in reliable third party sources such as newspapers, magazines, or online publishers to establish notability. New articles about persons or organizations that are not notable are typically speedily deleted.

The third problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organization or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view.

If you'd like to use the copyrighted content in an article, you can follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission on how to obtain the proper licensing. If you are the copyright holder, refer to Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for how to grant us permission to use your content. Alternatively, you could write a new article that does not closely paraphrase the material available online. However you would then still have to abide by the conflict of interest guideline, and even so, there is a likelihood that the article may be speedy deleted due to lack of notability. In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

I'm sorry this message could not be more favourable. If you have any questions, you can leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. --Drm310 (talk) 17:18, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Re: Deleted IPAM post

Hello Metaxaskid -- thanks for the message on my talk page. If you are certain that Institute of Policy Alternatives of Montréal currently meets the encyclopedia's threshold of importance for inclusion (these are the appropriate guidelines), you can recreate it, as long as you do not include any copyrighted text. Drm310 has given you good advice about dealing with any potential conflict of interest. If you are involved with the organisation in any capacity then (1) you must disclose the nature of the connection; and (2) you should create the article using the Articles for creation service, in which an experienced editor will review it before publication.

The article I deleted did not clearly demonstrate its importance, and you will need multiple in-depth references from reliable sources that are independent of the institute to do this. This can be very hard to achieve for a recently founded institute, and it might be easier to wait until more sources have been published about it. "Non-trivial mentions in peer-reviewed academic books" would be ideal for this purpose, while "media publicity" based on press releases is not useful. I hope this is helpful. The Teahouse is a friendly forum for newcomers if you need general advice. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 18:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017

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Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 19:23, 9 January 2017 (UTC)