User talk:Dmclees

March 2018

 * 1) The sandbox page you created has been deleted, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. There were two reasons for that. It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account, for the simple reason that very often people come to Wikipedia and falsely claim to have copyright rights that in fact they don't have. Also, even on the rare occasions when there is no copyright problem, content from an organisation or business's own website is not usually suitable for a Wikipedia article, as it is almost invariably written in terms designed to promote the organisation and give a good impression of it, rather than presenting it from a neutral point of view, as required for a Wikipedia article. Such promotional editing is not permitted by Wikipedia policy. In this case, the page you created read exactly as though it had been written by PR or marketing personnel working for the college.
 * 2) If you are connected to the college you have written about then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 22:23, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

I see that after receiving the message above you have again posted content which: Also, the nature of your editing makes it certain beyond all reasonable doubt that you are working for the college you have repeatedly written about, which means that your editing is in conflict not only with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, but also with the terms of use of the owners of Wikipedia. Complying with the policies and terms of use is a requirement, and any editor who persistently fails to do so after having been informed of the requirements may be blocked from editing by a Wikipedia administrator. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) is copied from another source, infringing copyright;
 * 2) is written in blatantly promotional terms, using language more suited to a college prospectus than to a neutral encyclopaedia article.