User talk:Erika.boll

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Copyright problems with Leadership Initiatives

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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright concerns very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 15:41, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} I was hoping you could help in establishing a credible Wikipedia page. I'm a newbie and could use any advice! Thank you.

You'll need to find independent reliable sources that demonstrate that the organization is notable. Sources written by Leadership Initiatives are not sufficent to verify the notability of the organization.

See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leadership Initiatives. This is not the first time somebody (apparently) connected to the organization has tried to write an article on the organization. For the article to stand, it must be written from a neutral point-of-view and must rely on independent sources. —C.Fred (talk) 16:41, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest reading The business FAQ, but over all, the best thing you could do is follow the suggestions in the below welcome message, and also talk to us live. Chzz ► 16:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hi, Erika.boll. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! Chzz ► 16:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people.

Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Erika.boll/test.

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When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page.

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Question

Welcome!

{{helpme}}I'm having trouble regarding copyright issues. I have sent in the necessary information to wikipedia, but have not had a response in days. I am a neutral point of view writing the article because I believe this organization is doing amazing things, and those who have not heard yet should have the sources to find out. Please help me!! Thank you.

Do you have any reliable sources about the organization? That may be the biggie here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 22:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, official primary sources are fine only if you have secondary sources to back it up. Do you have any news articles or the like? Non-trivial coverage from reputable websites? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 14:52, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your revision in the sandbox here. It reads very, very promotionally, you might wanna read WP:NPOV. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:02, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Terms like "Created to empower men, women and children around the world…" are certainly promotional, as is making a big list of their visions. Try starting smaller. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 19:03, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Leadership Initiatives is a repost of previously deleted content

A tag has been placed on Leadership Initiatives requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia, because it appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion process. If you can indicate how it is different from the previously posted material, place the template {{hangon}} underneath the other template on the article and put a note on the page's discussion page saying why this article should stay. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. If you believe the original discussion was unjustified, please contact the administrator who deleted the page or use deletion review instead of continuing to recreate the page. See specifically Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leadership Initiatives. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 16:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} My page is deleted and I have taken all necessary action to prevent it! I have the copyright issues cleared and am confused as to further improvements. Help!

Please ask the admin who deleted it to userfy it, so you can keep the page text. Then, have an independent editor review it (use {{helpme}} for that). fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 17:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But if most of the article can be read at http://www.leadershipinitiatives.org/index.html, as with the version C.Fred just deleted, it will just be deleted again. If by "copyright issues cleared" you mean that you have obtained permission to use the website text in an article, you need to follow the steps in WP:Requesting copyright permission.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can restore it into user space. One section of the article was a copyright violation. The remainder was still a (self-)promotion similar to the previously deleted version. In the absence of independent sourcing to demonstrate general notability, it was deleted as a repost of previously deleted material. I've just reviewed the version that went through the AfD process again, and the similarities with the most recent version are pretty extensive. Accordingly, I have deleted it under criterion G4, recreation of an article that was previously deleted through deletion discussion. —C.Fred (talk) 20:59, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's been restored to User:Erika.boll/Leadership Initiatives. —C.Fred (talk) 21:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help request

{{helpme}} I was wondering if someone could look over this text for me! Thank you!

Don't panic :-) I have simply moved the article into a user subpage. It is now in User:Erika.boll/Leadership Initiatives - this is a user subpage, and you can develop the article there before it goes live. Also, notice that I removed the initial heading == Leadership Initiatives ==, and put the name in bold at the beginning; this is the standard format for articles.

The main concern is about the use of self-referential primary sources; all of the facts must be supported by reliable sources that are secondary - ie newspaper reports, books, etc. The references for facts need to go 'in-line'; I will add a section to the end of this talk page to explain how to do that, in a moment.

Please try to sort out the referencing issues, and when you have, or when you need further help, please add another section to the end of this talk page, and place another {{helpme}}. Best of luck, Chzz ► 18:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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How references work

Simple references

These require two parts;

a)

Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref>

He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref>

b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}";

== References ==
{{reflist}}

(an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections)

To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Erika.boll/reftest and try it out.

Named references

Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook">
"The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. 
</ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/>

Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result.

Citation templates

You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look;

Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = John
 | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century
 | publication-date = 2001
 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
 | page = 125
 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4
}}
</ref>

Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result.

For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

Chzz ► 18:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Text Help!

Hello, Erika.boll. You have new messages at Chzz's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Chzz ► 01:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...I have replied again, as above. Chzz ► 23:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Leadership Initiatives. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article and resubmit when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. Alexrexpvt (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Leadership_Initiatives

You have new messages

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Chzz ► 15:53, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...and I've just added a bit more to the above. Chzz ► 15:59, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you hadn't seen the replies - it has now been archived, because messages on my talk page over 100 hours old are archived off. It is now in User talk:Chzz/Archive 10. You can always use the archive box at the top of my talk page to find such things - just search for your username. Chzz ► 12:08, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spotlight

Hi there. Hopefully you'll remember me, from my trying to help you; well, now it's my turn to ask for help.

I'm trying to help re-launch an idea called "Spotlight". The notion is to select an article and work on it collectively, via live discussion, for one week. If lots of people get involved, it can work really well; in the past, the project died off through lack of participants. Anyone can help out, because that's the whole point - we have many and varied skills, but between us, we can do amazing things. So - please join the channel, and add yourself to the participants in WP:SPOTLIGHT. Thanks for your time! Chzz ► 22:27, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Non Profits

Hello, I replied to your note at [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fulldecent (talk • contribs) 18:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Leadership Initiatives concern

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Proposed deletion of Leadership Initiatives

The article Leadership Initiatives has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NORG.

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Please consider improving the page 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. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 03:03, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Leadership Initiatives for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Leadership Initiatives 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/Leadership Initiatives (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-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 notice from the top of the article. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 03:05, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]