User talk:Joshy Bloor

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Joshy Bloor, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Nazarene Theological College (England) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
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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. /wiae /tlk  13:44, 11 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Joshy Bloor, I noticed you added some more content back to the Nazarene Theological College (England) article. Unfortunately, I've had to remove that text again, for three reasons.
 * The first is that the text is rather promotional in nature. It reads exactly like what you might find in a press release or on a college's website (and indeed it is taken from that source!), but not like the neutral prose characteristic of an encyclopedia. Please have a look at Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy to learn more about how text should be written on Wikipedia.
 * The second reason is that the text has nothing to do with the college itself; rather, it's about a town. Text about Manchester would be better suited for inclusion in the Manchester article instead. One or two quick lines about Manchester in the Nazarene Theological College (England) article is really all that is required.
 * The final reason I've removed the text is because it runs into problems with our non-free content policy. If you look at #3b on that list, you'll see "Minimal extent of use. An entire work is not used if a portion will suffice." While you would be allowed to insert a brief verbatim textual excerpt from a copyrighted source into a Wikipedia article, the quote added to the article was several paragraphs long, which is too long to be "brief". In the future, if you're in doubt, it's always better to rewrite things in your own words (paraphrasing) based on the source, rather than quoting large extracts from a copyrighted source.
 * I hope this was helpful. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, /wiae /tlk  15:00, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Wiae, that's all fine, I am new to editing wiki. Thanks for explaining some rules for me. My aim was to update the page and add important information. I will leave the page as it is. Is it possible to remove the "issues" that appear at the top of the page? --Joshy Bloor (talk) 07:32, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi, it's fine to add more information to the article, so long as it is written in your own words and properly sourced. On Wikipedia we tend to prefer the use of independent sources rather than primary sources. Put another way, Wikipedia is more interested in what others have said about the College than what the College says about itself. Certainly you can use the College's own website to verify basic facts about the College, but currently the article doesn't cite any sources that are independent of itself, and so that's why you see that "Issues" banner at the top that states "This article relies too much on references to primary sources". Thanks, /wiae /tlk  11:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)