User talk:Lgenese

September 2016
Hello Lgenese, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to The Maine Girls' Academy 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.


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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. You should also read WP:Neutral Thank you. Meters (talk) 17:33, 7 September 2016 (UTC)


 * On second look, much more of the material you added to the article is directly copied from the school's website and will have to be removed. I suggest that you rewrite it if you want i=t in the article. Meters (talk) 04:51, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

I believe I am responding correctly here? I am new to wiki so appreciate all of the information you have provided and your support. I work for the Maine Girls Academy and we are just trying to update our information and while we want the history of the school to remain, we have changed our name. We have very little time and resources as a small non-profit so I am happy to create a new page under The Maine Girls' Academy if I need to but am wondering if there is anyway to start back with the last page I edited since we worked so hard on that. We can provide the permission to all the content we added as it is our website content. Please let me know, your help is greatly appreciated. Lgenese (talk) 11:09, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

The Maine Girls' Academy
Three editors have discussed this school and concluded that it is a new school and thus a new article under the above title is needed. The original article Catherine McAuley High School should remain with the content specific to the former school.

Please write or contribute to the new article, but avoid copying material or using non-neutral phrasing. Meters (talk) 18:51, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

I believe I am responding correctly here? I am new to wiki so appreciate all of the information you have provided and your support. I work for the Maine Girls Academy and we are just trying to update our information and while we want the history of the school to remain, we have changed our name. We have very little time and resources as a small non-profit so I am happy to create a new page under The Maine Girls' Academy if I need to but am wondering if there is anyway to start back with the last page I edited since we worked so hard on that. We can provide the permission to all the content we added as it is our website content. Please let me know, your help is greatly appreciated. Lgenese (talk) 12:44, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing - writing about your place of employment
Hello, Lgenese. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 13:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)