User talk:A.Hannig

August 2017
Hello A.Hannig, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to North Albany Senior High School have been removed, as it appears 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 your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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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. Meters (talk) 03:56, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to North Albany Senior High School. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Meters (talk) 03:56, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * This is an encyclopedia, not the school's promotion page. Meters (talk) 03:57, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to North Albany Senior High School. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You cannot claim that 2017 data are in a 2016 source. Meters (talk) 04:06, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Your addition to North Albany Senior High School has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. This is at least the third time you have added copyrighted material to this article. If you do so again I will ask to have you blocked. Wikipedia cannot host copyrighted material. If you own the copyright then it is possible for you to release the material to us, but if you own the copyright then you obviously have a conflict of interest in writing about this. See WP:COI Meters (talk) 18:44, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I saw your email after I logged out last night, but I don't respond via email to Wikipedia emails unless I know the user. Please use talk pages to communicate with other users. It's faster, more convenient, and leaves a record of the discussion. You seem to have figured out sourcing so I won't answer that question. I have no problem with your new image. It was removed because it got lost in all of the promotional and copyright-violating material I removed. Meters (talk) 18:51, 28 August 2017 (UTC)