Big D Shire

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Hello, Big D Shire, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Soma Snakeoil, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  ttonyb (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Soma Snakeoil

The article Soma Snakeoil has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable individual lacking GHIts and GNEWS of substance. Appears to fail WP:BIO and WP:ENTERTAINER.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ttonyb (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Soma Snakeoil for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Soma Snakeoil is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soma Snakeoil until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. ttonyb (talk) 22:16, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Soma Snakeoil

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Soma Snakeoil, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://theater.aebn.net/dispatcher/starDetail?starId=60959&theaterId=20174&genreId=101 http://chsregime.com/clients/somasnakeoil/?page_id=17. As a copyright violation, Soma Snakeoil appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Soma Snakeoil has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Soma Snakeoil and send an email with the message to permissions-enwikimedia.org. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, leave a note at Talk:Soma Snakeoil with a link to where we can find that note.
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While contributions are appreciated, Wikipedia must require all contributors to understand and comply with its copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Assembling an article by assembling it from more than one copyrighted text is no less a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 02:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Hullaballoo Wolfowitz has already explained what to do. You need to do a rewrite, and not copy slabs of text of web sites. Even if you wrote the text on the other web site it is unsuitable for an encyclopedia as it is promotional. One way to get on track is to start a userspace draft at User:Big D Shire/Soma Snakeoil. Don't copy any other web sites, and imagine that you are writing for an encyclopedia, the tone has to be informative. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:59, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll do just that!