TipitianasInChitown

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Speedy deletion nomination of Healthcare and Life Sciences in Chicago

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A tag has been placed on Healthcare and Life Sciences in Chicago 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 http://www.94westbound.com/chicagoland-healthcare-innovators-directory/. 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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December 2020

Hello, I'm Justlettersandnumbers. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Healthcare and Life Sciences in Chicago have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:20, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello TipitianasInChitown. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Healthcare and Life Sciences in Chicago, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:TipitianasInChitown. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TipitianasInChitown|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi User:Justlettersandnumbers, thanks for the guidance. I added this information to the user page for User:TipitianasInChitown. What do I need to do now to recover my work, since it looks to have been deleted in the interim. (Also, how do I found out why it was deleted?)

The article was removed because it was a collection of promotionally-worded blurbs copied from the websites of the listed organizations.— Diannaa (talk) 11:13, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa - If I remove the 2nd column from each of the tables that had the descriptions of the organizations, would the page then be OK? Also, how can I get access to the work I did b/c it's my only copy and I have many many hours of work in there that I'd hate to lose! (I assume that User:Diannaa and User:Justlettersandnumbers and User:Nkon21 are working in coordiantion on this?) Thanks for your guidance. I'm eager to make a valuable, unique and quality contribution here with this content! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.56.17.0 (talk) 01:49, 31 December 2020 (UTC)