User talk:HCSC3047

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Hello, HCSC3047, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to leave me a message or place  on this page and someone will drop by to help. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 05:22, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
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Please comply with Wikipedia policies and norms
Thank you for your desire to contribute to the encyclopedia. Unfortunately, I had to revert the changes that you made to the Hume Central Secondary College article for a variety of reasons that I explain below. I hoped that you would read or at least scan the links provided in the email that I sent to preclude having your work removed. Please read the following

Copyright
Respecting copyrights is among Wikipedia's core policies. Your contributions were copyright violations, the main reason that I had to revert your changes and additions. When I reviewed your contributions, I found that the second paragraph of your first edit was a word-for-word cut-and-paste from Message from the College Principal in the school's website. Google shows that the next three paragraphs were copy-pasted from advertisements posted to www.seek.com.au/ and au.jora.com/ in June 2015 to recruit teachers. The paragraph about the school history was a copy-paste from the school's website. The first paragraph under the Curriculum heading was copied word-for-word from page 7 of the school's 2014 PARENT INFORMATION BOOKLET.  I stopped searching for the sources of the text after that because it appeared that all of the material was most likely taken from the school's website or documents.

Wikipedia takes copyright seriously. Everything in the English Wikipedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0). You and the school can't have it both ways. If school documents and the college website are copyrighted with all rights reserved per the copyright notices on the webpages, the text may not be copied to Wikipedia. In order for text from Hume Central to be used directly, it must first be released under a suitable license, CC BY-SA 4.0 or an even less restrictive license.

Write about Hume Central in your own words. Ideas and facts are not copyrightable. The creative work of a person is automatically protected by copyright under international law. Repeated violations of Wikipedia's copyright policies and guidelines will result in editors being blocked from editing.

Promotion
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; it may not be used to promote or advertise your school (or anything else. That was another reason for reverting your contributions.  Recent issues (see this Speciasl report) have focused extra attention to eliminate promotional edits to the encyclopedia.

Articles should be written in a formal tone and from a neutral point of view. The use of our or we is rarely appropriate in an encyclopedic article. Most of your edits read like promotional brochures about the school (and, in fact, some of the text appears to be from promotional brochures). Don't jist change our and we to to try to use copyrighted text; that is known as close paraphrasing and is still a copyright violation. Use your own words with a formal and neutral tone.

Conflict of interest
From your edits, it's apparent that you have a close association with the college. I strongly suspect that you are an employee of the college. Your edits show that your interest is promoting the college while Wikipedia's interest is becoming the world's greatest encyclopedia. If you are a paid employee, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require that you declare your affiliation and conflict of interest. You agreed to those terms of use every time you make an edit to Wikipedia.

Declaring your conflict of interest isn't onerous. Right-click on the User page tab up above, then select the Wikitext option on the tool bar and copy-paste the following into the empty edit window:

I, HCSC3047, am an employee of the Hume Central Secondary College. I will do my best to only make edits that benefit the goals of Wikipedia. My main edits for the college will consist of the following activities:
 * Updating the Hume Central Secondary College article with current information
 * Updating related articles such as prominent alumni
 * Updating or creating articles about the local area

I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with Wikipedia guidelines. I will directly edit articles to make noncontroversial updates or additions in an acceptable and neutral manner. I ask that other editors contact me via my user talk page if I appear to be going against this declaration. ~

Use the preview button to see how your page will look and modify the text as needed for accuracy and as you prefer, then save the page. Please also at least scan through the Best practices for editors with close associations.

So much more
Please take your time. The school's article will be in Wikipedia long after you and I are gone. A good quality article written in compliance with Wikipedia's standards will benefit both the college and Wikipedia.

If you have questions, feel free to ask here (I will be watching your talk page for a bit) or on my talk page. If you want a quick answer, the Teahouse can usually provide an answer in minutes. I don't want to see you blocked from editing because of violation of core policies and guidelines. I hope this was helpful, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) WER 20:20, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Recent edit to Hume Central Secondary College
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you removed some content from Hume Central Secondary College without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 09:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC)