User talk:PolicyAndEngagement613

Copypasting from other sites
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text—which means allowing other people to modify it—then you must include on the external site the statement: "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later, and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike".

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the Help Desk. You can also leave a message on my talk page. --McGeddon (talk) 15:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Response


 * Thanks McGeddon. The Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner has approved of the information on this page. The idea is to provide accurate, neutral, and updated information about the Office. Is there any other option available other than posting the aforementioned statement on the PSIC web site? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PolicyAndEngagement613 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 17 June 2014‎


 * Like it says: you can either rewrite it in your own words, or ask the Office to explicitly release the text under an appropriate CC licence so that it can be copy-and-pasted without any copyright issues. But I'd advise editing the article incrementally rather than rewriting it from scratch - your recent edits wiped out several secondary sources and replaced them with the PSIC's primary ones (Wikipedia strongly favours secondary sources), and introduced an inappropriate tone of voice (the PCIS might say that it "provides a safe and confidential mechanism" and "protects from reprisal", but Wikipedia shouldn't report that as objective fact).
 * If you're editing on behalf of PSIC I'd recommend taking a look at WP:COI before going any further. --McGeddon (talk) 17:29, 17 June 2014 (UTC)