Asimo1987
Wikipedia and copyright
editHello Asimo1987, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Notre Dame of Tacurong College have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.
- You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
- Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
- Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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- In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
- Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
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. Apparition11 Complaints/Mistakes 13:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
editHello, Asimo1987. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Notre Dame of Tacurong College, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:
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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Winged Blades of GodricOn leave 14:44, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
November 2017
editPlease do not remove the {{copyviocore}} template from articles, as you did with Notre Dame of Tacurong College. Your action has been reverted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept non-free text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted, and removing copyright notices will not help your case. You can properly contest the deletion at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are the owner of the material, you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN. Alternatively, you are welcome to create a draft in your own words at Talk:Notre Dame of Tacurong College/Temp. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators and/or removers of the copyright notice templates may be blocked from editing. ChamithN (talk) 07:39, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- Regarding your E-mail: When it comes to copyright issues, Wikipedia cannot take your words for granted that you own the material; you have to provide evidence of the ownership. However, like I said earlier, if you really are the web administrator of the school like you said, and if you do own the content,
you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN
. You also asked me whether you can request the page to be deleted entirely. Well yes, if you have a valid rationale, you can do so by following the steps mentioned in WP:HOWTODELETE. But, given that the article has been on Wikipedia since 2009, I suggest you try and improve the article instead. Familiarizing yourself with WP:5P, WP:NOT, and Wikipedia:Writing better articles would be a good starting point. But, more importantly, you should refrain from removing the {{copyvio-revdel}} template until those specific revisions are deleted. Cheers! -- ChamithN (talk) 08:17, 6 November 2017 (UTC) - There are striking similarities between Notre Dame of Marbel University and this. To me, it looks like another case of potential copyright violation. But it could also be the other way around, that is, the web devs might have copy-pasted the content from Wikipedia itself. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out. I've opened an investigation here. -- ChamithN (talk) 14:13, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- Even though you are an editor with COI, you can still edit Wikipedia, but it'd be best to follow WP:COIEDIT. -- ChamithN (talk)
Non-free rationale for File:Notre dame of tacurong college.png
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Orphaned non-free image File:Notre dame of tacurong college.png
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