Santeni

November 2009

Your addition to LeFlore Magnet High School 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 web sites or printed material without verification of authorization to use it; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images.

The template that you removed without comment from the article gave instructions for verifying permission if you are connected to the original source (Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials) or have permission from it (Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission). This template should not have been removed without such verification. Nevertheless, I have searched for the high school's name in the Wikimedia Foundation's emails to see if you complied. Since I found no e-mail and since the website does not verify but rather continues to display a copyright notice, the article has been deleted and restored to a state prior to the introduction of that text.

Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please do not restore this material without first verifying permission to license it in accordance with our copyrights policy. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Notability of LeFlore Strikettes

Although I had originally tagged the page for deletion under speedy deletion criterion A7 as an organization or group of people that does not indicate encyclopedic importance or significance, I have instead redirected this page to the high school, since it is a plausible search term. This group should not have its own page unless notability can be asserted in accordance with the inclusion guideline WP:ORG. This assertion of notability should be supported by reliable sources that are not connected with the high school or the group. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

The LeFlore Wikipedia Page

Hi, I was wanting to know the validity of deleting the info on the LeFlore Magnet High School Page? I was hired in 2007 as the school's historian and web designer. I know that you may not have been aware of this, but I typed all of this info onto wikipedia before I put it onto the school's website. When you viewed the school's website, you must have thought that I took it from the school's website and put it onto Wikipedia? It was actually the reverse. That's all that I can think of as a reason for deleting our school's history at such a critical time in the graduation of our heritage to the next stage of education. Either way, I composed all of the information from scratch back in 2007 & 2008, that was viewable on Wikipedia and our school's website. I'm listed on LeFlore's school website by my first and last name while my log in for wikipedia is my middle name? Did you think that those were different individuals? I'm not about the glorification of school's, I'm about the promoting of education. There are many LeFlore Rattlers that don't have access to our school's history book because everyone doesn't visit the school's website. Primarily because if it's in Wikipedia, it googles first. This is where my situation with this deletion comes in to play, because LeFlorians aren't educated on all that is or are mislead to believe that there is nothing more than what is displayed. That's not educable. Of the many articles donated to Wikipedia, legitimately educational ones would be believed to have some priority to many since education in America is currently at an all time low. I'm an educator in Alabama and California simultaneously and would go the distance for any school and school board that I'm employed with because I'm about the education of America not the glorification of any school. I dug deep into the school's archives, spoke with the teachers and the principal that have been employed at the school since its inception, contacted the local news stations and libraries, the school board, and interviewed past graduates to compile the information posted to this website. Someone's or something's history has to begin somewhere with someone creating a template of who the school is as an idea, school, and character-builder. That was my job so the information is valid. I wrote it as objectively as possible for this is what I was employed to do, so I only know to do my very best. I need your help. Thank you ma'am. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Santeni (talk • contribs) 17:43, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

As explained to you above, the content was removed because you did not follow the verification procedures. You removed the notice from the article that explained this process, so presumably you did see it. Perhaps in spite of the notice that the template should only be removed by Wikipedia's administrators, you thought that removing the template would address these concerns, but, if so, I'm afraid you missed the part of the notice that said, "Unless the copyright status of the text on this page is clarified, it may be deleted one week after the time of its listing." (Bold in original.)

I'm afraid that the connection between your username and the school is immaterial. We have no means of verifying identity through account creation and thus all donations of this type must be verified through one of the external processes to which you were pointed. Likewise, we can't easily verify that you typed the content here first, following which it was placed at the official site. Sometimes official sites do copy from Wikipedia, but we need clear evidence that this is the case, particularly when the school is publishing that content under clear copyright reservation. As this is a legal issue, we must follow these processes.

They are, again, at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. However, if you authored the material here first, the school does not need to verify that they own the authorship and give permission. All they need to do is verify (via their webpage or a school-issued e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation) that its usage on Wikipedia predates its publication at their website. In that case, you have already granted license as required by our Terms of Use.

As you are addressing these concerns, please also read over our conflict of interest guideline and our FAQ for organziations. I appreciate your effort to remain neutral, but this is good information to have. It can help avoid other problems with the article and its development. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:07, 5 July 2010 (UTC)