User talk:OldNorth1723

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Why I reverted your edit
Hello OldNorth1723. I have undone your edit to Old North Church, as it contained copy/pasted text from [oldnorth.com the church's website]. Wikipedia tries to be as free (as in free speech) as possible, and as a part of that, all text on Wikipedia has to be under a free license that allows anyone to reuse it for any purpose. The text on the Old North Church website is simply marked "Copyright © 2016", so it is by default under a non-free "all rights reserved" license, and therefore cannot be copied onto Wikipedia.

Also, you said you're an employee of the church. Now, that's not disallowed or anything, but you *are* required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use to disclose that fact (doing so in the edit summary like you did works, or you could make the disclosure on your user page, User:OldNorth1723) and you should probably take a look at Wikipedia's guideline for editors with a conflict of interest, found here. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 18:24, 24 March 2016 (UTC)