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November 2022
Your edit to Thomas Sowell has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Blue Edits (talk) 11:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:37, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
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Good Afternoon Mr. Ollie,

I hope this finds you well and you have a wonderful holiday season.

Sir, my apologies if you found my content disruptive however it is from the Thomas Sowell Biography site.

Next I am an avid listener to Dr. Sowell’s lectures. I am a University student, my university never mentions him at all. I read the wiki article and just provided additional factual information as told by Dr. Sowell himself, to which I did provide a a link for reference. 173.54.245.109 (talk) 19:20, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * First, You cannot copy and paste content directly into Wikipedia - that is a violation of the original author's copyright rights. That must be deleted, because Wikipedia could run into legal problems otherwise. Second, Wikipedia is generally not interested in what article subjects say about themselves - articles should be based on what reliable third parties have to say. Relying on a subjects own words would swiftly turn Wikipedia into a venue for self promotion and advertising, and we cannot have that. I will also add that self published blogs such as the one you were quoting are not ever used as sources on Wikipedia. Instead, you should be using citations to things like books from reputable publishers, major newspapers, and so on. And then rewriting any content you find in your own words. MrOllie (talk) 20:18, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for responding sir

For reference and to provide status to my Professor, could you please elaborate on the differences between what i gathered from the Thomas Sowell website and what a third party would write in a book.

Isn’t everything on Wikipedia basically from another website as I am finding. Lastly why would Wikipedia not want to include the link for more information on Dr. Sowell? Just curious please advise. 173.54.245.109 (talk) 21:26, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

December 2022
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 17:21, 3 December 2022 (UTC)


 * MrOllie,
 * Per your instructions I sought out an outside source, could you please elaborate as to what is wrong with this post now?
 * Thank you, GMT-5DMT (talk) 17:26, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Please read the policy I just now linked for you. MrOllie (talk) 17:34, 3 December 2022 (UTC)