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Your submission at Articles for creation: Armored Mud Balls (July 23)[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://armoredmudballs.rocks. 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. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Armored Mud Balls may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Gusfriend (talk) 10:06, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Conglomerate Joe! 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! Gusfriend (talk) 10:06, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright rules are a harsh mistress[edit]

Hello! Thanks for trying to improve WP. Per WP:GNG, WP should absolutely have an Armored mud ball article, I don't think any experienced Wikipedian will disagree on that. However, you (?) made a somewhat tactical mistake. https://armoredmudballs.rocks/ clearly states "COPYRIGHT © 2022 ARMOREDMUDBALLS - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."

Case closed, you can not WP:COPYPASTE text from that website to WP, we are very careful about copyright, it comes from a desire to stay online, and the wish that WP content shall be free to re-use for any purpose, even commercial.

I see that @Nick Moyes is writing on the topic, and he will perhaps put something in article-space fairly soon. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:11, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gråbergs Gråa Sång,

Thank you for your message. I am very glad to hear there is popular support for an armored mud ball article! I am not experienced with Wikipedia editing so I am sorry for making the copyright error. You see, my professor Richard Little wrote a draft Wikipedia article on his website https://armoredmudballs.rocks/ that he tried to submit but was rejected for the same copyright issue, even though he wrote the original material. He then asked me to try to revise the draft and go through the submission process for him. Now, we are trying to see if he can change his license on that text so we can resubmit a version of the draft for Wikipedia.

Nick Moyes has been in touch with my professor and we are waiting to hear his opinion on this matter. Thank you for writing!

Conglomerate Joe (talk) 19:55, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]