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Requesting help on a tagging of my article which I feel is unfair Delnavaz Mehta (talk) 13:51, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Social History of Tea in India

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A tag has been placed on The Social History of Tea in India requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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 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 User:Delnavaz Mehta/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Delnavaz Mehta/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. 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 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.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website or image but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but 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 yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 06:59, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Delnavaz Mehta. You have new messages at Matthewrbowker's talk page.
Message added 08:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 08:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And again. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 08:50, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And again. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 09:29, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tea

There are quite a few problems. Much of the text is unreferenced, and there are problems with two of your three references anyway. The second ref appears to be dead, and the first is sourced to a commercial site, not really an independent verifiable sources. The information should be readily available from good sources.

The style is unencyclopaedic, eg What is interesting and So where did the Indian habit of “Chai” emerge and how?, and there are many claims which need either removing or proper references eg for most Indians “chai” is a part of their cultural traditions of hospitality and social interaction... part of the daily life and rituals of millions of households... the taste of nostalgia; it invokes memories of home and family... is encoded within the matrix of the family... are emotional. — and that's just from the first couple of sentences. It reads like OR

A couple of style things too. Headings should follow normal capitalisation, not capitalising every word. Also, you have only one Wikilink (tea) in the entire article.

I think that this is a good topic for Wikipedia, but it needs to be written in a more encyclopaedic style without speculative text and with better references. I hope this helps Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Jim. Most of your text is unreferenced, and the references you do include aren't reliable sources. We need a lot more references for the article to be accepted.

Also, there still appears to be a problem with text being copied from external websites. I've explained twice why that's a problem. That text needs to be removed, or the article will be deleted again. All of the information in the article needs to be in your own words. Otherwise, Wikipedia may be sued, and we can't afford that

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The topic, however, is interesting and deserving of an article. It just needs some work to get there. Feel free to poke me on my talk page if you have any other questions. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 18:09, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion again

Hi Delnavaz Mehta. I re-state what other people have said to you. If you cut and and paste text subject to copyright into Wikipedia, it will be deleted. User:Delnavaz Mehta/sandbox includes text cut and pasted from this web-site. Please do not continue adding text subject to copyright into Wikipedia.--Shirt58 (talk) 11:45, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your message

you can leave a message at any time and I'll get back to you Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:04, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I made these changes to conform to manual of style and tidy references. It's much better than it was, although it could do with more references, move it to the article space and see what happens Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:51, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There should be no title or heading of any kind to the lead section of an article, it will have the title Tea drinking in India when you move it from your sandbox to the article title space. Note that headings should follow normal capitalisation, and not be fully capped, so it's "drinking", not "Drinking". Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:50, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Quick Unrelated Note by an Anon. that the Article "Persian Message Syndrome" currently deleted, does have at least one independent source see Page 38 of the book: Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.143.209.104 (talk) 20:14, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]