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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the UCL Energy Institute article, but 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.
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Speedy deletion nomination of UCL Energy Institute[edit]
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A tag has been placed on UCL Energy Institute, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
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Status and Advice[edit]
As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article: not for promotionalism primarily, but because the text was a copy from various pages of their website. This is not permitted: previously published copyright material cannot be used on Wikipedia. Even if you own the copyright or can get permission and follow the full formal procedures according to WP:DCM, the tone will not be encyclopedic and the material will not be suitable. It's always best to rewrite.
As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without Conflict of Interest; it's not impossible to do it properly with a conflict of interest or as a paid press agent, but it's relatively more difficult: you are automatically thinking in terms of what the subject wishes to communicate to the public, but an uninvolved person will think in terms of what the public might wish to know. They don't usually want to know the details of government. And keep in mind that the goal of an encyclopedia is to say things in a concise manner, which is not the style of press releases or web sites, which are usually more expansive.
Also, a Wikipedia article needs to show notability with references providing substantial coverage from 3rd party independent published reliable sources, print or online, but not blogs or press releases, or material derived from press releases. The references in the article were entirely from their own site, or were trivial press releases or listings. What is needed is articles about the Institute itself--not its individual researchers, but the Institute. It has proven in the past quite difficult to find this sort of material for most similar organizations, and we generally do not have articles at the Institute or Department level, except for the very most famous.
What I suggest you do instead is add a section on this to the article on The Bartlett. Two or three paragraphs would be about the correct length, but write them yourself, using the web pages only to provide the information. Include a link for all faculty there who have articles in Wikipedia And try to add at least one external source if you can. Ideally, you might then want to go on and add similar sections for the other constituent institutes,
I work frequently on articles on subjects like this, and I'll be glad to help. I am emailing you the text, but please don't reuse it in its present form .
DGG ( talk ) 17:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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