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Nexus Telecom[edit]

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Nexus Telecom, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/ren%C3%A9-bodmer/0/675/17.

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.) CorenSearchBot (talk) 08:49, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Nexus Telecom[edit]

A tag has been placed on Nexus Telecom, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia for multiple reasons. Please see the page to see the reasons. If the page has since been deleted, you can ask me the reasons by leaving a message on my user talk page.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. NortyNort (Holla) 09:08, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nexus Telecom[edit]

How to verify copyright permission for article Nexus Telecom[edit]

Hello, Malhousto.

Thank you for your interest in donating material from http://www.nexustelecom.com/about_us/index.php 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:Nexus Telecom so we can restore the contents.

Alternatively, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please provide a clear link to the website in your e-mail and specify by name the articles on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that you've done this on Talk:Nexus Telecom to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all: {{OTRS pending}}

If you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch at this temporary page. As long as the material is otherwise compliant with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, it will be used to replace the previous contents. Please leave a note at Talk:Nexus Telecom saying you have done so.

If you are not familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, you may wish to review Wikipedia:Starting an article or Wikipedia:Your first article. If you are closely related to the subject matter, you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to proceed. It may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text, if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines.

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement.

The article will be revisited in about a week to see what additional steps have been taken or may be necessary. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. We also have a help desk which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers.

Thank you. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:20, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article was just deleted. Copyright wasn't the only problem with the article though. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for companies to put their profiles. The article read like an advertisement. If you can verify you have permission to use the text, it needs to be written in a neutral and encyclopedic manner. Also, see Wikipedia's policy of conflict of interest as you are associated with said company. Here is an example of an article on a company. I am sure you can find many more. If you need help, let me know.--NortyNort (Holla) 09:26, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(The above message from NortyNort was posted while I was writing this message, and I see that their is some overlap between that message and this one. However, having spent some time writing it, I am posting it here as it is, despite the duplication.) While the information given above about giving copyright permission is correct, I think it only fair to warn you that in my opinion it is almost never worth the time and trouble involved in following these steps. Text copied to an article about a business or organisation from its own web site is almost always too promotional in character for an encyclopaedia article, and I have frequently seen people come to Wikipedia in good faith to create an article about their business by copying from their website, see their work deleted as copyright infringement, go to the trouble of following the instructions for copyright permission, only to see their work deleted again as spam. I can imagine, as no doubt you can, how frustrating that can be. I find it is almost never worth creating a Wikipedia article by copying from another source, rather than writing it from scratch. In addition, you should consider the question of whether the subject is notable enough for a Wikipedia article. I see that a previous article on the same subject was deleted, with lack of notability being given as one of the reasons. If a subject does not satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines then any article on it is likely to be deleted, no matter how it is written. You may like to read the general notability guideline and the specific guideline on notability of organisations and companies. Also Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations is perhaps even more worth reading. Finally, you should consider the issue of conflict of interest. Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline strongly discourages editing an article on a subject in which you have a close personal involvement, such as a business you work for. It is very difficult to stand back far enough from the subject to be sure you are being objective in writing about it. This applies even to an editor who genuinely intends to write objectively, and is quite apart from people whose only intention is to use Wikipedia as a free advertising service to promote their businesses: anyone who appears to be doing that is likely to be blocked from editing, as Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:46, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]