User talk:GinaCucina
Welcome to Wikipedia[edit]
Welcome!
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Editing advice[edit]
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. PhilKnight (talk) 00:17, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Some suggestions[edit]
Regarding this:
We (the people who "own" the Institute) have tried to enlarge the content with much more detail. But it's always reverted back to the stub.
you should be adding information that is from newspaper and magazine articles, and books, not information from your own website or organization. (I've not looked to see what you've tried to add; see WP:RS for details about what is acceptable.) And whatever you add, you should avoid just doing cut-and-paste; that is a copyright violation if done for more than a sentence or so.
You might want to take a look at Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual regarding the rules on Wikipedia. Specifically, Chapter 2 covers "Documenting Your Sources", and Appendix C covers where to get help. (In general, you should post questions about article changes - or attempted article changes - to the article's talk/discussion page. If you don't get any response there, you might try the help desk. But Appendix C lists a lot of places where help is available.)
You also appear to have a conflict of interest issue. Wikipedia prefers that people with strong interests in an article let other editors make changes. You're much safer if you post suggested changes to the article to the article's talk/discussion page, and let other editors judge whether the changes are appropriate. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 16:30, 13 November 2010 (UTC)