User talk:Heulyn Davies

January 2014
Hello Heulyn Davies, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Welsh Water has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you.  Velella  Velella Talk 17:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Heulyn. Thanks for your message on my talk page. I have replied here since this is an issue that relates to you and your involvement with Dwr Cymru rather than being of general interest. In general Wikipedia welcomes the use of all relevant material as long as it is not owned by somebody else and that any potentially contentious statements are supported by robust and reliable references. Please see notability guidance here
 * It is probably worth reading the guidance on copyright violation but perhaps more relevant is the guidance on donating copyright material and the guidance can be found here. My guess is that one of the big issues that you may have is that whatever you may write in an article may be changed, deleted or amplified by others provided that they can support their material with good references. In other words Welsh Water will in no sense "own" the article. Looking at your earlier submission, I would have thought that any senior employee of Welsh Water could write suitable material without bothering to copy text and without the need to worry about copyright. Much of what was there was not very suitable for Wikipedia as it wasn't neutral in tone and was rather self- congratulatory (or full of peacock phrases). Please do expand the article and do please contribute on other topics but please do also bear in mind that this an encyclopaedia and not the Board room! Regards,  Velella  Velella Talk  11:43, 20 January 2014 (UTC) (ex Dwr Cymru)


 * Apologies - I should also have mentioned conflict of interest issues. As you are a employee, that fact needed to be clearly stated on your user page so that other editors understand your relationship to the text your are editing. This also means that in the case of any editing disagreement, you need to stand back and let other editors reach consensus rather than lead them Have a look here for more guidance. Regards  Velella  Velella Talk 11:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)