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A tag has been placed on User:WriteSantaLetter 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://writesantaletter.com/about.html. 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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Hello WriteSantaLetter! Your additions to User:WriteSantaLetter have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:48, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... it is MY WEBSITE AND WORDS! There is NO copy right error. As to what ever was written I think you are being a little harsh in your assumtion on what I wrote and attacking me as if I commeted a crime which I didn't and not reasoning the facts or knowing the true facts of the situation. As for me I think you are being hurtful and unkind in your judgement without knowing or getting the true facts of the situation. Not only that getting me fired up in being defensive and isn't right. Now if you would get down of the high horse and be a human being and not being quick to judge we might beable to get somewhere. I am willing to talk by phone to get this matter resolved. You have my number and we can talk like adults and I am gain if you are. Sonja --WriteSantaLetter (talk) 23:12, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- Your website is copyrighted and Wikipedia requires content to be freely licensed. You could provide permission, but Wikipedia is not a web host for your material, nor is Wikipedia a medium for advertising. Whpq (talk) 00:02, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- Your website clearly states "© Write Your Letter To Santa, 2021, 2022. All rights reserved" - We cannot post copyrighted material as stated above. -- Alexf(talk) 00:03, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- Okay, if you are going to do that than I request that you do the same to emailSanta.com website. They are doing the same thing that you are telling me and YOU are denime with the same type of website. Plus my website writeSantaletter.com is for charity to raise money for the elderly, disabled and handicap and those in need. I consider that discrimination against me and my website. emailsanta.com has the same simular type website. I also have been written up in newspaperts that have honored me for what I do and what I displayed clearly gives connection to the Winston Salem Jouneral and Magizine in Winston Salem, NC and you cvan check me out regarding this, plus written in the Watauga Democrat in Boone, NC pretaining to my sites regarding letters to Santa Claus that I have built my self ever since the BBS's before the turn of the century. I built my website way back since before the internet. What you have read is my accomplishments. I find you response to my write up discriminateing. I am well known in these towns and on the web for my accomplishments. I would rethink your position in this matter. My friends in high places taken a dim view of matters of this nature in your responce as well as me. Families that frawn on this matter. emailsanta.com is simular to my site and you allow him to do the same and is discrimination. Heaven help you! WriteSantaLetter (talk) 03:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- I don't see your reason for this and prejudice against my website. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 03:02, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
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- change of my username no unless YOU REQUEST EMAILSANTA.COM TO DO THE SAME. YOU ALLOW HIM AND YOU ARE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ME. This place you have I can close YOU DOWN IF YOU DISCRIMINATE AGainst me. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 03:08, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- what ever your problem is you hide behind this texting and your website. you allow emailsanta.com and his site is copyright. My site is no different than mine. Besides that YOU tell me that I have got to change my username that I shouldn't have to. Second you have emailsanta.com website listed and his site is COPYRIGHT. LASTLY YOU HIDE BEHIND YOUR texting dosen't jive with me. to me itif you are going to talk business or not this is for the birds. As telling me to change my username I conceider it discriminating. You allow emailsanta.com to use is copyright website name but you tell me I got to change it. That I consider disciminating, and why because emailsanta.com is copyright. As for you , you seem to like hiding behind you website. My people don't agree with you and you are being discriminating. So far as I am concern you are being discriminating. You have other that have copyright site and thAT SHOULD MAKE A DAM DIFFRENCE about my copyright. I am not and will not be discriminated against. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 03:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- i JUST SENT YOU AN EMAIL. You said that I can't have my username and it must be change at emailsanta.com well he has to do the same and if you don't I can take action. You can not do me unfairly by telling me to change my username without having emailsanta.com doing the same. I will not and am not changing my username when you are allowing emailsanta.com to use a copyright website. withdraw your convictions from me. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 04:33, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- what ever your problem is you hide behind this texting and your website. you allow emailsanta.com and his site is copyright. My site is no different than mine. Besides that YOU tell me that I have got to change my username that I shouldn't have to. Second you have emailsanta.com website listed and his site is COPYRIGHT. LASTLY YOU HIDE BEHIND YOUR texting dosen't jive with me. to me itif you are going to talk business or not this is for the birds. As telling me to change my username I conceider it discriminating. You allow emailsanta.com to use is copyright website name but you tell me I got to change it. That I consider disciminating, and why because emailsanta.com is copyright. As for you , you seem to like hiding behind you website. My people don't agree with you and you are being discriminating. So far as I am concern you are being discriminating. You have other that have copyright site and thAT SHOULD MAKE A DAM DIFFRENCE about my copyright. I am not and will not be discriminated against. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 03:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- A few indisputable facts:
- The person who started writing emailSanta.com properly declared their conflict of interest. They followed policy. That person is not using a username that is the name of their website. They followed policy. That person did not add any promotional copyrighted language from their own website. They followed policy. That person added references to reliable sources, and there are currently 29 references in the article. They followed policy. That person wrote a draft and submitted it to the Articles for Creation process, for review by an experienced, uninvolved editor who accepted it as an encyclopedia article. They followed policy.
- You, on the other hand, have not complied with any of our policies for editors with a conflict of interest. You are complaining about our policies and refusing to comply with them. Your current approach will not be successful so I suggest that you either change your tune, or abandon this effort. Cullen328 (talk) 16:11, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- To be perfectly clear, there is no Wikipedia editor called User:emailSanta.com. Instead, there is an encyclopedia article called emailSanta.com, because the policies were followed correctly in that case. Cullen328 (talk) 16:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- I differ with you on emailsanta.com. I have been on the website and I have seen it on you regard his wikipedia. I did the search and know it was on here and copied the page. As for me I am a honest person and have a website just like emailsanta.com. I have don't nothing wrong and my information is fact and honest and I worked hard on building my site plus taught myself HTML. But you don't seeem to belive me and I come from a honest background. To show you my sincereity I have rewrote my information and I wrote my own words. Now I am trying to be nice and over look the mishap and I will go as far to apologize. As being penalized against my site I don't feel it is right to do so especially when emailsanta.com has the same info on copyright and I have sene it and know it is on here. The point here is my informaation so I have written my words so we can come to some kind of medium. My information as follows:
- About write Santa letter
- Doing years of Santa Claus and Christmas, "Writing Santa Letters" has been an exciting experience and adventure. Write Santa Letter offers a service to the young and young at heart at Christmas time.
- Once Santa letter expenses are covered, Write Santa Letter donates funds to local charities. WriteSantaLetter.com has been providing Christmas portraits, videos, movies, stories, nice lists and surprises for children with a personalized letter package straight from Santa Claus for over 45 years!
- Operating Writing Santa Letters, since the "Bulletin Board System, 1978. - "Lastly, we like to express "Write Santa Letter" is a-non-commercial website in helping the unprivileged children, the elderly, handicapped and others in need!"
- As for myself I have had many enjoyable moments helping Santa writing letters for him that brings a tear to Santa’s eye from letters that has a sad story to tell, but Santa has away of smoothing things out for them.
- I see you are a senior we surely should be able to get something worked out. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 16:42, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- You must do several things. You must agree to follow Wikipedia's Policies and guidelines 100% of the time and defer to more experienced editors when they tell you that you are on the wrong track. In particular, you must comply with Verifiability and the Neutral point of view. You must change your username. You must use the Articles for Creation process. You must stop complaining that one of your competitors has an article and you don't. That website owner did things right and you haven't yet. You must submit a properly formatted unblock request, following the instructions in the formal block message precisely. Do not be argumentative in your unblock request. Follow the directions. Another adminstrator will review your appeal, and may ask me for my input. Cullen328 (talk) 17:00, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- To be perfectly clear, there is no Wikipedia editor called User:emailSanta.com. Instead, there is an encyclopedia article called emailSanta.com, because the policies were followed correctly in that case. Cullen328 (talk) 16:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- I have not and I quote have not written anything that is copyright in the last 30 minutes. Get real man. As for what is on my site give it a rest. What I wrote was what I compiled from writing something that ids not from my website. I own the webiste and design it myself. I pay for every bit of my website and no one but one owens my website or anything about it. As for my webpages I built the site and control everything about it. It is my copyright and I do everything. what gives. nothing in your regulations has not a thing to do with what I display. As yto your copyrights I worked in my father law offices and know about your copyrights. what I have is my personal stuff. my copyright on the site is my stuff and I can use it where ever. I have not infringe anything that I use. you are intrupeting coyright. If it is my it is not infringeing on any copyright. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 17:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- Here is emailsanta.com that is on your wikipedia that you have accuse me of. He has same stuff. Read it and check it out and stop accusing me.
- emailSanta.com
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- emailSanta.com is a Christmas-themed entertainment website that claims to allow children to send emails to the legendary character Santa Claus and receive a computer-generated response from the website. It also provides various other Christmas-themed simulations.
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- emailSanta.com was started in 1997 by Alan Kerr. Kerr started the website after a strike by Canada Post workers prevented his niece and nephews from sending letters to Santa Claus, which are replied to by volunteers at Canada Post. During the first two weeks of the site's existence, emailSanta received over 1,000 emails.
- In 2000, a "Santa Tracker" feature was added to the site, allowing users to simulate the tracking of Santa year-round, similar to NORAD Tracks Santa provided by North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Google Santa Tracker by Google. The site also features a blog and various other Christmas-themed games and apps.
- The website is available in several languages.
- The website was incorporated in Alberta, Canada as emailSanta.com Inc. in 2011. Individuals and entities in 26 different countries have been involved in creating emailSanta.com.
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- Users compose their letter by filling in blank fields. Personal information, such as full name or e-mail address, is not required.
- The website then simulates the process of the process of the email being sent and then compiles an immediate and personalized reply to the sender based on the user's input. The reply is automatically generated server-side using an ASP script written by Kerr, but the letter is claimed to have been written by Santa Claus himself. Optionally, the user can request to "see Santa live," in which case a video recording of an actor's portrayal of Santa would be shown to the user before the reply letter is shown, simulating a video call with Santa.
- From the website's inception, children whose letters contained pleas for help were directed to a special web page on the site listing online resources for assistance and counselling helplines. In dire circumstances, police have been contacted.
- Impact on popular culture[edit source]
- Prior to the Internet, letters to Santa were traditionally delivered by post. Tanya Gulevich, in her Encyclopedia of Christmas and New Years Celebrations wrote:
In 1997 postal workers all over the [U.S.] reported the first decline ever in the numbers of letters sent to Santa Claus at Christmas time... No one knows why so many kids all at once lost interest in writing letters to Santa. Perhaps they suddenly discovered e-mail.
- Some overworked U.S. Postmasters requested children use emailSanta.com instead of sending letters via regular mail. One particular instance was due to the anthrax scare in the early 2000s.
- Beginning in 1998, users could sign up for emailSanta's "Daily Top 10" list. Similar in spirit to Art Linkletter's work, the emailSanta list was a curated list of emails sent by visitors to the site. Some of these lists were reprinted in newspapers and magazines, and read on TV networks and radio stations.
- Elementary school teachers have also used emailSanta.com in their classrooms to teach computer literacy and reading skills.
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- WriteSantaLetter (talk) 17:42, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- I have told you here is evidence. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 17:44, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- You will not be unblocked unless you file a properly formatted and fully responsive unblock request. Period. End of story. Instead, you continue to argue. That's on you. Cullen328 (talk) 18:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- your a joke and you wikipedia will ffall. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- @WriteSantaLetter How is Cullen328 a joke? And why will Wikipedia fall? Theano Andreia (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, a big joke. Wikipedia is a top ten website worldwide. It was the most visited website in the United States in 2021. 1.5 billion unique devices visit Wikipedia each month. If you think that is a joke, then go ahead and laugh. Cullen328 (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- @WriteSantaLetter How is Cullen328 a joke? And why will Wikipedia fall? Theano Andreia (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- your a joke and you wikipedia will ffall. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- You will not be unblocked unless you file a properly formatted and fully responsive unblock request. Period. End of story. Instead, you continue to argue. That's on you. Cullen328 (talk) 18:23, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- I have told you here is evidence. WriteSantaLetter (talk) 17:44, 16 October 2022 (UTC)