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Your edit to Heather Vogel Frederick

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Butseriouslyfolks 17:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Tamar Geller

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Please do not post copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Tamar Geller. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.tamargeller.com/tamar_geller_press_releases_book.html in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Butseriouslyfolks 17:47, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Deborah Reber

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Please do not post copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Deborah Reber. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://newschool.edu/alumni/nsgsclassnotes.html in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Butseriouslyfolks 17:48, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Loren Long

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Please do not post copyrighted material to Misplaced Pages without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Loren Long. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.bhny.com/newsletter/2007/mar01/1416918639.htm in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Butseriouslyfolks 17:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Copyrights

Please note that, by submitting content to Misplaced Pages, you agree to release your contributions under the GNU Free Documentation License. Please read that license. This would mean that Simon & Schuster would no longer hold the copyright for the information. I don't think this is what you want to do. Therefore, I will delete the pages you created unless informed otherwise (if someone else hasn't deleted them already). -SpuriousQ (talk) 18:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Heather Vogel Frederick was deleted for the same reason. As SpuriousQ has stated, even if you hold the copyright, you can't just post that text here. You have to send an email to the Wikimedia foundation releasing that text under the GNU Free Documentation License. This would be incompatible with your copyright so make sure you understand the implications before you do this.--Isotope23 18:21, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Elizabeth Scott (author)

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Elizabeth Scott (author), by Isotope23, another Misplaced Pages user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Elizabeth Scott (author) seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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I don't understand why this was speedily deleted. The page clearly stated that she is a published author. Does that not make her notable?Gbooks24 18:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Not necessarily. There was nothing to indicate the author would satisfy Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines. Has she received significant coverage from independent reliable sources? To be honest, I probably would normally not speedily delete such an article, but you've been mass posting borderline-promotional biographies of authors and as you work for the marketing department of Simon and Schuster this suggests a conflict of interest. -SpuriousQ (talk) 19:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I am interested in making pages for a bunch of our authors. Is that not allowed? All I am posting is their biography (the information comes from their own websites, our websites, and the websites of other booksellers, etc.), their bibliography (which includes books published with Simon & Schuster and other companies) and external links to their personal websites and our website. I am trying to make it easier for readers to find out more about the authors when they search for them online. Please let me know how to do this in a way that will not end in the deletion of all of the pages I've created. Thank you. Gbooks24 19:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Please read through our policies and guidelines below. The most important thing for you to do is to rewrite biographies using your own words (or release the copyright of those your company has written into the public domain) and make sure you respect Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view by referencing your material to 3rd party reliable sources. See also Misplaced Pages:Notability (people). Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  19:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) It's not strictly disallowed, but you should carefully read Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest and keep it in mind when editing. For an article to remain, it must satisfy Misplaced Pages's guidelines on notability. That is, you cannot draw only from their websites and their publisher's websites, but from reliable sources independent of the subject's themselves.

Misplaced Pages is not the advertising or PR medium that other popular sites such as Myspace tend to be; articles about people here are intended to be actual biographies of notable people. -SpuriousQ (talk) 19:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. I am only using information that is publically known(for example, if an author won an award, that award is public information), and I will put it into my own words. Though some of this info is repeated on the author's and publishers' websites, the information itself doesn't create a conflict of interest. Anybody can go into google and find many websites independent of the author and his/her publishers that say what books they have published and what awards they have won. I'm trying to follow what I'm seeing in other author wikipedia pages (like those of Scott Westerfeld and Cassandra Clare, two of our other authors that made their own pages). I really just want to do what Misplaced Pages intends, which is to present a biography of an author who is gaining a lot of popularity, and allow those searching the internet to find out more general information about them.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosure

You should also state on the article's talk (discussion) page that you are creating the author's article as an employee of their publisher so that readers can factor that into their understanding of the article. Thanks. --Butseriouslyfolks 20:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Do I have to? I'm putting in the same information that the author would put in if they were creating their own article, and the same type of information that is on other author articles currently available on Misplaced Pages. There are no disclosure statements on other author articles. I would rather not have to identify myself. Thank you. Gbooks24 20:22, 8 June 2007 (UTC)