User talk:Mothigh

Your addition to Motueka High School has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. - gadfium 06:50, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

The material was on the school website until recently. Usually the way to prove that the school is freely placing the material under a license suitable for Wikipedia is to add such a licence notice to the website page. However, even if there is no copyright concern, most of this is simply not encyclopedic material. A large portion of the material is sufficiently generic that it applies to almost any school, and parts are promotional in nature. All material on Wikipedia must be backed by reliable sources (at least in theory - in practice for non-controversial matters this means citations must be supplied if requested, and the school website, while a primary source, is usually sufficient). Since the material is no longer on the school website, it is entirely unsourced. It is impossible to police a Wikipedia article against vandalism if the truth of it cannot be verified.- gadfium 20:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC)