User talk:Rossta1414

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Hello, Rossta1414, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Portland Parks & Recreation does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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February 2012
Your addition to Portland Parks & Recreation 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. tedder (talk) 19:21, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:NPOV and Copyright violations to understand what the issues are. Then request an unblock. We'd love to have contributions from the Parks Bureau! tedder (talk) 19:30, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You may also want to read about edit summaries and page histories, then check the page history for the PP&R article. Things happened so fast, you may not have realized that your edits were being reverted, so it looked like you were edit warring, which led to your block just as much as the copying and pasting from your organization's website did. We would welcome your contributions, but they need to be rewritten in your own words and stripped of promotional tone. Valfontis (talk) 19:56, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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Hello Rossta1414. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Portland Parks & Recreation, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —EncMstr (talk) 19:43, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted.

Please take this opportunity to be sure you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Valfontis (talk) 21:32, 29 February 2012 (UTC)