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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Pink Ban (December 27)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://tradeshallsydney.wordpress.com/2021/09/09/jack-mundey-gay-and-lesbian-rights/, https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/311007. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

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Goldsztajn (talk) 20:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, TheGhostGum! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Goldsztajn (talk) 20:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - thanks for drafting the article on The Pink Bans, it's very relevant for the organised labour project where I spend quite a bit of time. Unfortunately, the draft you submitted contained material in it which was close paraphrasing from the NSW Trades Hall and I've had to decline the submmission and remove that material. Wikipedia is quite strict around issues of copyright - I hops this is not too disappointing. I'd be happy to look over a revised text - feel free to {{ping}} me. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 20:26, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the review and comments. I'm mostly used to data driven papers and writing so Wikipedia and more narrative writing is very new to me, considering what I wrote ended up accidentally being paraphrasing I guess I have a decent amount to learn. I'll learn from this and see if I can seek some advice from people at my university on how to avoid paraphrasing sources in narrative writing.

If you have any resources you'd suggest, feel free to send them so I can improve!

I'll prepare a new Background section and extended 'Pink ban' section soon!

I am a little worried about making the same mistake where I say X, Y, Z happened but in a similar way to something I've read in the past.

Would the best way forward be posting in the draft but not submitting or? TheGhostGum (talk) 21:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @TheGhostGum - you're welcome, happy to help.

In terms of writing and avoiding paraphrasing have at look at this: WP:PARAPHRASE, in particular the sections "Example" and "How to write acceptable content". I think with practice this kind of issue becomes less of a problem for most editors.

Unfortunately, it's important to avoid any close parapharing anywhere in Wikipedia, whether in draft space, talk pages or main (article) space. The copyright rules apply equally to whichever space the material is sitting as ultimately everything is on Wikipedia servers.

Feel free to ask me any questions and I will help where I can. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 07:19, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hi and thank you for joinging the WikiProject Organized Labour! We are editors who collaborate to improve the coverage of all matters related to trade unions.

A couple of suggestions:

If you've not done so already, you might wish to add {{User WikiProject Organized Labour}} to your userpage.
You can leave questions or start discussions at the Organized Labour talk page about matters related to the project.
If you feel like doing some clean up; we have a big list.

Once again, welcome. Goldsztajn (talk) 11:43, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Pink Ban has been accepted[edit]

The Pink Ban, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 01:07, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]