User talk:Tshikongo
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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Tshikongo/record 90 years in jail for nurse
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A tag has been placed on User:Tshikongo/record 90 years in jail for nurse requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website or image but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.
If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. JohnCD (talk) 21:40, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- Wikipedia cannot accept copyright material, not even in user pages. Please read Wikipedia:Copy-paste and, if you are editing a part of a class project, ask your instructor to read it too and explain it to the rest of the class. I appreciate that you put the quotation in quote marks and cited the source, but that is not enough to avoid a copyright violation: see WP:Copy-paste#What about quotes? : "Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea." In this case, the quote was the whole article. JohnCD (talk) 21:52, 30 June 2012 (UTC)