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A tag has been placed on OBTS: Teaching Society for Management Educators requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant 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.

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Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Organizational Behavior Teaching Society is unquestionably copyright infringement, and no assertion of permission has been made.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 20:32, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions on how to allow the material to be used on Wikipedia (via the terms of the GFDL). ... discospinster _talk 21:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the answer I left for you at EAR - you will find it here. – ukexpat (talk) 03:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a notability requirement for the subject of every article on English Wikipedia -- for companies and organisations you will find it at WP:Corp. Notability must be verifiable by reference to reliable sources. Also, articles must not be promotional in tone and must maintain a neutral point of view - something which can be hard to do if an editor has a conflict of interest. And all that is in addition to the copyvio policy. In addition to the links I have posted here, WP:YFA may be helpful. – ukexpat (talk) 18:13, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]