User talk:Amadorj

Content problems with Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps
Some of the content you added to Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://drumcorpswiki.com/index.php?title=Gail_Royer&oldid=20191. While I realize that you may have authored the content there, I'm afraid we cannot use it without verifying that. (For more information, please see "donating copyrighted materials".) That website's license is not compatible wtih our own. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text.

There are other problems with the content for Wikipedia's purposes as well. Our three core content policies are verifiability, neutrality and "no original research". We are a tertiary source and must publish information that has been referenced in reliable publications, such as newspaper articles, journal articles, television documentaries, etc. I'm afraid that most of the information on Mr. Royer, even if true, is unlikely to qualify for inclusion here unless he has been profiled in sources we can use.

While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2010 (UTC)