User talk:Caldwellayang

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Hello, Caldwellayang, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! JNW (talk) 14:17, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. JNW (talk) 14:17, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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. JNW (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. JNW (talk) 14:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I've asked that this account be blocked, as it appears to be used only for the purpose of promoting an entity. Additionally, you're repeatedly added copyright violation content to a Wikipedia article, and removed relevant maintenance templates. JNW (talk) 16:24, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I am trying to comply with the guidelines. The information in Origins and accreditation is nearly the same the history section that I am adding. Can you tell what is specifically promotional? Caldwellayang (talk) 16:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Answered at the bottom of the page after the other help me request. —    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 16:43, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for persistently using Wikipedia for promotion, and edit warring. Wikipedia is not a medium for schools, businesses, or any other organisations to publish their own preferred account of themselves: that is what your school's web site is for. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:30, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I am citing the copyrighted material. Am I doing this incorrectly? Caldwellayang (talk) 16:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply to (2) help me requests: The problem isn't the citation. The problem is the direct copy & paste from the copyrighted source.  You cannot copy & paste directly from source material into Wikipedia. Please review the links provided in the block warnings and in the welcome message above during your block, and then you can contribute successfully on your return. —     Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 16:43, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I suspect that you may be making the very common mistake of confusing copyright infringement with plagiarism. Plagiarism is passing someone else's work off as your own, which you are obviously not doing if you say where you are copying it from. Copyright infringement, on the other hand, is, broadly speaking, publishing someone else's work without their permission. If you do not have permission to publish something, announcing that you have copied it does not somehow make it all right to do so. I have not checked the source of everything in the article, whether posted by you or by other people, but content that I removed from the article is taken from a page which clearly says © Copyright 2014 Caldwell College, New Jersey. All rights reserved. Unless and until there is proof that the college has changed its mind about that, and decided to allow the content of its web site to be re-used by anyone in the world, as it is or modified, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, subject to attribution, posting it on Wikipedia is an infringement of copyright, because every time you post anything to Wikipedia you are announcing that you are licensing it for such free re-use. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 16:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of interest admission
Thank you for the information. I am an employee of the institution and my goal is to put up neutral point of view, factual information without being promotional. I have two additional questions. How is the information I am posting promotional? I am taking this information from our Factbook which doesn't appear to be promotional. Also, How do I give permission to myself to publish the copyrighted material of which we are the authors? Or is it a better practice to just phrase the facts in a different way? I guess that is really 3 questions. Thank you again for satisfying my ignorance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caldwellayang (talk • contribs) 16:54, 28 February 2014‎
 * Reply to help me request: Based on your admission above you should not be editing the Caldwell College article at all. Please request any future edits on the article talk page, and do not make them yourself.  Please read the Conflict of interest policy completely and be certain to comply with it.  Also, you cannot give yourself permission to use copyrighted material.  Only the college can give that permission.  Please read the article Copyrights which will describe the types of licenses that are acceptable.  The copyright notice on that web page (as quoted above by JamesBWatson) would have to be replaced by an appropriate licensing notice as described in the copyright policy. —     Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 17:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I have never yet known a college or school of any sort that has been willing to license the content of its web site under such broad and free terms as are required by Wikipedia's terms of use. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 17:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC)