User talk:Ahrmi

Copy and pasting
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http://presentcompany.org/

Help me!
I am on the Board of Directors for the Present Company and last night I updated our page. This morning when i went to check it, I received a notice that there were "copyright" issues. The copy that I posted is similar to what we have on our website. What could the issue possibly be and how do I correct it? Thank you.

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Ahrmi (talk) 13:24, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Ahrmi (talk) 13:24, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


 * First of all, please review the guideline on conflicts of interest. Writing about your theatre company on Wikipedia is not a good idea since it's difficult to write neutrally about a topic you're closely associated with.
 * Secondly, Wikipedia requires its content to be freely licensed so that everybody may re-use and modify it for any purpose, including commercial purposes. I see no indication that the website you copied from is relased under such a license, or that you are in a position to sign away the rights to the organization's intellectual property.
 * Thirdly, encyclopedia articles and "about us" pages serve different purposes, and what may be appropriate for one is inappropriate for the other. Wikipedia content should be based on what independent sources report about the Present Company, not on what it says about itself. Thus even without the licensing issue that edit would have been reverted as inappropriate and unduly promotional. Huon (talk) 14:27, 23 October 2016 (UTC)