User talk:Nadine El-Khoury2

April 2016
Unfortunately, there were at least two problems with your recent editing at Ahmed Mater. Firstly, much of the content you added consisted of commentary and opinion, some of it clearly intended to give a favourable impression of Ahmed Mater, but a Wikipedia article is supposed to just report dispassionately and objectively what reliable sources say, without expressions of opinion or value judgements, and certainly without appearing to be intended to promote or praise the subject of the article. However, a far more serious problem was the fact that much (if not all) of the content was copied from other sources, infringing copyright. It is very rarely acceptable to post content copied from other web sites to Wikipedia. Some of the content you posted, for example, originated in an article in the The Washington Post, the terms of service of which say (among other things) "Except for content that you have posted on the Services, or unless expressly authorized by The Washington Post in writing, you are prohibited from publishing, reproducing, distributing, publishing, entering into a database, displaying, performing, modifying, creating derivative works, transmitting, or in any way exploiting any part of the Services, except that you may make use of the content for your own personal use as follows: you may make one machine readable copy and/or print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only." That does not come anywhere near to being compatible with Wikipedia's licensing terms. Consequently, the content you posted has been removed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:39, 27 April 2016 (UTC)