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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Improving essays wikitask

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Improving essays wikitask requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://michiganassessment.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MELAB-SampleEssays-Commentary-2013.pdf. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material 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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I gather that you posted this essay from the Michgan English Language Assessment Battery as an exercise for your class to attempt to collaboratively improve the essay? If so, while I find your objectives laudable, your methods are poor. Wikipedia can be used in school projects (see WP:SUP), but not at the cost of posting copyrighted material, or in encouraging students to engage in writing exercises that will never be published as articles. We are primarily building an encyclopedia here. Academic projects that can further that goal are encouraged, but academic projects that use Wikipedia's resources for goals that do not further the building of the encyclopedia are discouraged. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 13:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Improving essays wikitask

Draft:Improving essays wikitask, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Improving essays wikitask and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Improving essays wikitask during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 14:55, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

October 2018

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Draft:Improving essays wikitask. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. The deletion tag says not to blank the page or remove the deletion discussion tag. You probably blanked the page in good faith, but you weren't supposed to do that. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:14, 29 October 2018 (UTC)