User talk:BestUniversity

July 2017
Your addition 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. ElKevbo (talk) 00:47, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Kevin,

I am Thomas from the Alliant University. I would like to be the admin of our Wikipedia page. This page needs an update soon. Could you give me the admin rights?

I have all copyrights of the Alliant International University.

If you have questions, please let me know. Here is my Aliant e-mail address: Thomas.laubuhr@alliant.edu

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Thomas


 * No, you most certainly cannot have control over this or any other article. In fact, you should not even be editing this article because you have an inherent conflict of interest.
 * I strongly encourage you to read the two policies I have linked before resuming editing. If you believe that parts of the article should be edited, you should post a request in the article's Talk page so other editors can help make the edits so you avoid the conflict of interest you have with the subject.
 * Finally, it may be helpful to review some copyright basics either on your own or with your institution's legal counsel; it seems highly unlikely that you have unilateral control over the university's intellectual property including the legal ability to release it into the public domain. If I'm wrong, please provide some evidence that you have that ability, perhaps by indicating so on the university's website.  Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 02:34, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Kevin for your message.

I am working together with Ashley Chitwood (Vice President of Marketing) and I am responsible for updating this page for the Alliant. The side needs an update and new information. Its not advertising. Its just the correct information that students would like to read to get a better overview about the Alliant.

This is Ashley's email: Ashley.Chitwood@alliant.edu If you have questions about my right, please feel free to contact her. Thank you.

Best,

Thomas

Copyright
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text—which means allowing other people to modify it—then you must include on the external site the statement: "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike".

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the Help Desk. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Crow Caw  23:27, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Editing the University's article
Hello, while I appreciate you wanting to update the article, we have several policies that you need to understand before doing so. First is WP:COI, which describes what "connected contributors" should do to avoid running afoul of other policies. Hand in hand with that is WP:PAID which states that if it is part of your job to edit the article, or if you receive financial compensation in any way from doing do, you must declare this on your user page.

As mentioned above, you cannot copy text from the school's site, even if you have the copyright as you say. Since Wikipedia releases its content under This Free License (which allows anyone anywhere to use, re-use, modify, parody, sell for a profit, or basically any purpose whatsoever), we must ensure that source material is similarly licensed. I'm sure the school wouldn't mind that content being distributed freely, but I imagine they don't want it changed, sold, or any of the other possibilities that our free license allows. If they do wish to donate the text so it can be used by anyone anywhere, then follow the steps at WP:DCM, but do not re-add it until the permissions release is processed.

Another important one to consider is WP:OWN which says that nobody owns any page. Any content you contribute is subject to continuous editing by the Wikipedia community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations.

Please let me know if you have any questions, as I know it can be daunting for a new editor whose first few edits might be problematic. Thanks, Crow  Caw  23:34, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. RickinBaltimore (talk) 13:31, 28 July 2017 (UTC)