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Thanks for uploading File:Hannuk obit.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.
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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged files may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the file will be deleted 48 hours after 04:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Salavat ( talk) 04:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
The article Miss Grays Harbor has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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consensus for deletion. Other than the template, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your comment on Pageant Central, this seems a rather harsh way to have to get the message across to you but as I'm banned from posting there I'll have to do it here. Unfortunately creating articles to create buzz for your locals is specifically in contravention of Wikipedia's inclusion policies. Further your pageant has not garnered enough news attention to fulfull the notability criteria. I hate having to do this to you as I can see you put a lot of work into the article, but If I don't someone else will soon enough and they might not take pains to be polite ;) Please contact me if you have any queries with this by leaving me a message on my talk page.
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An article that you have been involved in editing, Miss Grays Harbor, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss Grays Harbor. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 23:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Hannuk_obit.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
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If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Melesse ( talk) 10:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Just to make you aware that I have contacted the following users and asked them to comment on the AFD: User talk:Jayjg, User talk:Alison, User talk:Wikipeterproject, User talk:NuclearWarfare & User talk:MelanieN. I have had no prior contact with any of them, they were selected randomly as administrators and/or regular Articles for Deletion commenters. You are more than welcome to do the same. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 06:04, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello AlistairBooya. I am here as a result of seeing your request for assistance at Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests. I had never before even heard of Miss Grays Harbor, nor even of Grays Harbor, so I had no preconceptions about it. I have now had a look at the article Miss Grays Harbor, at its articles for deletion discussion, and at various other pages, both on and off Wikipedia. I shall tell you my conclusions. I hope my remarks will be of help to you in clarifying the way that Wikipedia deals with such cases.
You expressed doubt as to how deletion discussions work, and how they are decided. Normally such a discussion is kept open for a week, though it is possible to either close it sooner or to extend it for longer if there are special reasons for doing so. During that time any Wikipedia editor is welcome to express opinions. At the end of the time a Wikipedia administrator considers the reasons given, and decides whether there is consensus for deletion: if not then the article is not deleted. In considering the reasons given the administrator considers the value and strength of the arguments used, not a count of the number of opinions for and against. An administrator will also consider whether views expressed are in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines: anything not relating to policy is likely to be ignored. For this reason it is important to have an understanding of the basic ideas in the relevant guidelines, and so I shall attempt to outline the most relevant points from them. You are, of course, welcome to read the guidelines themselves if you want further details.
I don't know whether you have looked at the Wikipedia notability guidelines, but the essential point is that to have an article a topic must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. This, of course, raises the question as to what constitutes "significant" coverage, what are "reliable" sources", and so on. There are extensive guidelines on each of these issues, but there is still room for discussion of how these issues apply in individual cases, which is why we have deletion discussions. I will say a little about how these issues seem to me to relate to this particular case in a minute, but first I will try to clarify a few other points concerning things you have written about this case.
Having explained a few of the reasons why some of the arguments you have used, while perfectly intelligent and reasonable, do not, in fact, contribute to establishing notability under Wikipedia's criteria, I shall move on to considering how the evidence given actually relates to notability. Looking at all the sources cited, and also at all the articles found by the Google news search, I find that the amount of coverage varies considerably. Some are articles about other competitions, in which Miss Grays Harbor receives only a passing mention: for example, a mention that Miss Grays Harbor was a runner up. By no stretch of the imagination can this be regarded as "significant coverage". In other cases we have a short article about the Miss Grays Harbor contest in local news coverage. This is much better than passing mentions in articles about other topics. However, not everything that gets mentioned in a local newspaper is worth an encyclopedia article. I once lived in a place where the local newspaper regularly used to devote several pages to people living locally who had just got married, complete with photographs of the happy couples, but we do not have a Wikipedia article on every couple who gets married. Of course the Miss Grays Harbor pageant is not at the same level of obscurity as an ordinary couple who have just got married, but I am just trying to illustrate the point that not everything that receives local news coverage is notable, and the character of the coverage has to be considered.
I hope this has been of some help to you. Please feel very welcome to ask any further questions: I shall watch this talk page. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Jeffburlingame.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{ non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 22:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Jeffburlingame.JPG. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{ non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 17:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
I have added a "{{
prod}}" template to the article
AXB Enterprises, suggesting that it be deleted according to the
proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "
What Wikipedia is not" and
Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}}
notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on
its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the
proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the
speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to
Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. S
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Thanks for uploading File:Hannuk obit.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.
As well as adding the source, we also need to know the terms of the license that the copyright holder has published the file under, usually done by adding a licensing tag. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{ GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{ non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged files may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the file will be deleted 48 hours after 04:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Salavat ( talk) 04:05, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
The article Miss Grays Harbor has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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 {{
dated prod}}
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 {{
dated prod}}
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. Other than the template, welcome to Wikipedia. I saw your comment on Pageant Central, this seems a rather harsh way to have to get the message across to you but as I'm banned from posting there I'll have to do it here. Unfortunately creating articles to create buzz for your locals is specifically in contravention of Wikipedia's inclusion policies. Further your pageant has not garnered enough news attention to fulfull the notability criteria. I hate having to do this to you as I can see you put a lot of work into the article, but If I don't someone else will soon enough and they might not take pains to be polite ;) Please contact me if you have any queries with this by leaving me a message on my talk page.
PageantUpdater
talk •
contribs 12:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Miss Grays Harbor, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss Grays Harbor. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 23:39, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Hannuk_obit.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
{{
di-replaceable fair use disputed}}
, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Melesse ( talk) 10:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Just to make you aware that I have contacted the following users and asked them to comment on the AFD: User talk:Jayjg, User talk:Alison, User talk:Wikipeterproject, User talk:NuclearWarfare & User talk:MelanieN. I have had no prior contact with any of them, they were selected randomly as administrators and/or regular Articles for Deletion commenters. You are more than welcome to do the same. PageantUpdater talk • contribs 06:04, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello AlistairBooya. I am here as a result of seeing your request for assistance at Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests. I had never before even heard of Miss Grays Harbor, nor even of Grays Harbor, so I had no preconceptions about it. I have now had a look at the article Miss Grays Harbor, at its articles for deletion discussion, and at various other pages, both on and off Wikipedia. I shall tell you my conclusions. I hope my remarks will be of help to you in clarifying the way that Wikipedia deals with such cases.
You expressed doubt as to how deletion discussions work, and how they are decided. Normally such a discussion is kept open for a week, though it is possible to either close it sooner or to extend it for longer if there are special reasons for doing so. During that time any Wikipedia editor is welcome to express opinions. At the end of the time a Wikipedia administrator considers the reasons given, and decides whether there is consensus for deletion: if not then the article is not deleted. In considering the reasons given the administrator considers the value and strength of the arguments used, not a count of the number of opinions for and against. An administrator will also consider whether views expressed are in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines: anything not relating to policy is likely to be ignored. For this reason it is important to have an understanding of the basic ideas in the relevant guidelines, and so I shall attempt to outline the most relevant points from them. You are, of course, welcome to read the guidelines themselves if you want further details.
I don't know whether you have looked at the Wikipedia notability guidelines, but the essential point is that to have an article a topic must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. This, of course, raises the question as to what constitutes "significant" coverage, what are "reliable" sources", and so on. There are extensive guidelines on each of these issues, but there is still room for discussion of how these issues apply in individual cases, which is why we have deletion discussions. I will say a little about how these issues seem to me to relate to this particular case in a minute, but first I will try to clarify a few other points concerning things you have written about this case.
Having explained a few of the reasons why some of the arguments you have used, while perfectly intelligent and reasonable, do not, in fact, contribute to establishing notability under Wikipedia's criteria, I shall move on to considering how the evidence given actually relates to notability. Looking at all the sources cited, and also at all the articles found by the Google news search, I find that the amount of coverage varies considerably. Some are articles about other competitions, in which Miss Grays Harbor receives only a passing mention: for example, a mention that Miss Grays Harbor was a runner up. By no stretch of the imagination can this be regarded as "significant coverage". In other cases we have a short article about the Miss Grays Harbor contest in local news coverage. This is much better than passing mentions in articles about other topics. However, not everything that gets mentioned in a local newspaper is worth an encyclopedia article. I once lived in a place where the local newspaper regularly used to devote several pages to people living locally who had just got married, complete with photographs of the happy couples, but we do not have a Wikipedia article on every couple who gets married. Of course the Miss Grays Harbor pageant is not at the same level of obscurity as an ordinary couple who have just got married, but I am just trying to illustrate the point that not everything that receives local news coverage is notable, and the character of the coverage has to be considered.
I hope this has been of some help to you. Please feel very welcome to ask any further questions: I shall watch this talk page. JamesBWatson ( talk) 09:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Jeffburlingame.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{ non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 22:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Jeffburlingame.JPG. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.
If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{ non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 17:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)