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Spam in LearningRx

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Speedy deletion nomination of Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research

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A tag has been placed on Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.gibsonresearchinstitute.org/. 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 or other printed material 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Dr. Ken Gibson

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A tag has been placed on Dr. Ken Gibson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, 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 from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 01:47, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Copyright, notability, promotion

Wikipedia cannot hold copyright material, not even in sandboxes or AfC submission pages, not even temporarily. Please read Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources. Assertion of permission to use text is not enough; we have to be certain that the person giving a release has the authority to do so, and that the actual copyright holder understands and agrees to Wikipedia's license terms, which allow any reader to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial. For those reasons, a formal copyright release, as described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, is required.

It is very seldom worth making a copyright release because, even if the copyright issue were resolved, simply posting a copy of an organization's own promotional material does not make an acceptable encyclopedia article. For background, see User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard.

Wikipedia's inclusion criterion is called Wikipedia:Notability, and is not a matter of opinion but has to be demonstrated by references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Independent sources are required, not only to establish notability, but also to enable an article to written which is an outside view of the subject, not simply the story it wishes to tell the world.

There is good advice on how to write an acceptable article at WP:Your first article; if you are connected with the Institute, your conflict of interest means that you should not post directly, but use WP:Articles for creation to make a draft for review by uninvolved users. JohnCD (talk) 08:34, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Paid editing disclosure

If you are employed by the Gibson Institute, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, and note in particular that you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use ("Paid contributions without disclosure" under section 4) to disclose your interest in any edits for which you expect to be remunerated, either directly or because they are made as part of your paid employment. JohnCD (talk) 08:35, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Gibson Test of Cognitive Skills

The article The Gibson Test of Cognitive Skills has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unable to find independent references, used in Gibson's franchised tutor centers

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:21, 5 October 2016 (UTC)