User talk:Sammy Jo Prudhomme

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Sammy Jo Prudhomme. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Sammy Jo Prudhomme, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ! dave 19:42, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

December 2017
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 19:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)


 * And read the above regarding WP:COI. 2601:188:180:11F0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 19:52, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Sammy Jo Prudhomme. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not continue to add copyrighted content. ! dave  19:59, 29 December 2017 (UTC) Thank you for this info I was unaware of the conflict of interest
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Copyright law and Wikipedia
Hello. I see that somebody left you a note in 2017 about copyright concerns, but perhaps they did not sufficiently explain the situation. You have added more text to the article Sammy Jo Prudhomme that is taken from an external source.

Wikipedia is governed by United States law, which means that we must respect copyright and remove material that may violate copyright from publication. We are required to block from access people who repeatedly paste such content on our site. Under US law, content is copyright protected as soon as it is written down. Unless the material does not qualify for copyright (most does), is too old to be protected, or is released under a license that allows us to use it, we can only use brief and clearly marked quotations from the material. Otherwise, it all has to be written down in our own unique language, utilizing the same paraphrasing skills required for academic institutions. Our concern is not merely with plagiarism, however (although that is concern). Our concern is with illegal infringement.

The material that you placed in this article in January includes substantial copying from two sources: https://osubeavers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=3324 and https://usctrojans.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2626. Both of these pages are published under explicit copyright reservation by the respective universities. ("© 2019 Oregon State Athletics. All Rights Reserved" and "© 2019 University of Southern California Athletics") We cannot use this text on Wikipedia, unless you are able to prove a license from the universities that allows us to do so.

Because the license legally has to be compatible with our own license, any license they grant would have to permit the material to be modified and commercially reused. We cannot accept licenses that restrict changes or redistribution, even for profit.

If you would like to ask these two universities to license the content they have claimed copyright over, please see Donating copyrighted materials, which will explain the procedure.

If we do not receive such a license, this text - currently covered up on the article - will be removed in order to comply with the law. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:18, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Sammy Jo Prudhomme, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)