User talk:Goodbucket

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Proposed deletion of Jim Chapman (Canadian)[edit]

The article Jim Chapman (Canadian) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable individual lacking GHIts and GNEWS of substance. Appears to fail WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ttonyb (talk) 02:33, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Jim Chapman (Canadian) for deletion[edit]

A discussion has begun about whether the article Jim Chapman (Canadian), which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Chapman (Canadian) until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. ttonyb (talk) 01:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Chapman (Canadian)[edit]

This is an automated message from VWBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Jim Chapman (Canadian), and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.jimchapman.ca/pages/biography.html.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) VWBot (talk) 06:22, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How to verify copyright permission for article Jim Chapman (Canadian)[edit]

Hello, Goodbucket.

Thank you for your interest in donating material from http://www.jimchapman.ca/pages/biography.html to Wikipedia. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we must verify such donations through external processes. The article has been blanked to allow time for that verification to proceed.

The simplest way to verify is to place a release on that external website putting the material into public domain or co-licensing it under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, which permit modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. This release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed, or the material may need to be removed. A statement such as the following would be sufficient: "The contents of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release on Talk:Jim Chapman (Canadian) so we can restore the contents.

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Thank you. --NortyNort (Holla) 12:51, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Work in progress[edit]

I've created a temporary copy of your article at User:Goodbucket/Jim Chapman (Canadian) if you want to keep working to get it up to standards. Good luck. — Satori Son 18:22, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Goodbucket (talk) 18:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jim Chapman[edit]

For what it's worth, I'd be happy to restore the page to your userspace for you if you'd like. It'll be at User:Goodbucket/Jim Chapman.

Just so you know, I don't mean to imply that topics of primarily local notability can never be included in Wikipedia — heaven knows many already are — but because the scope of their notability is so much smaller, it is admittedly a lot harder to surpass the burden of proof than it would be for a broadcaster on a national network. I often explain to people that you can very often pass our notability guidelines if you start from the assumption that the primary audience for your article is someone on the other side of the world — instead of writing for someone who just wants a bit more information about someone they already know and listen to on the radio every day, write for someone who's never heard of Jim Chapman before, and try to explain why that person should be interested in him: has he won a major broadcasting award, did his show have a documentable effect on the political or social culture of the city, that kind of thing. Imagine that you're talking to someone who lives in Singapore or the Czech Republic, and try to make a reasonable and properly referenced case that he's important enough that they need to know something about him.

Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 19:16, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay, never mind about the recreation, I see that Satori already restored it for you. But please do still keep the rest of my advice in mind, because aiming for an international rather than a local audience really is a valuable approach to take on Wikipedia if you want to create a genuinely keepable article. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 19:19, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]