User talk:Sol.sheri

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Mexican Museum, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi there - I was correcting the museum's page because there are incorrect dates and outdated information. I work for the museum and we've been having trouble with external media personell using wikipedia for a reference and having to edit their material. We would like this to be corrected. How can I correct the page? Sol.sheri (talk) 15:56, 27 July 2016 (UTC)Sol.sheri


 * There are several issues that came up with your edit. I'm going to go through each one.
 * First, your edit was a direct copy of material from the museum's website. Except for limited situations where something is directly quoted, text on Wikipedia needs to be under a free license that allows for unlimited derivative use, including commercial use. I found nothing on the meuseum's website to indicate that the museum had donated the text or placed it under a free license.
 * Second, the tone of the text was overly promotional. Wikipedia articles need to be written from neutral point of view and in a neutral tone. Articles should neither be overly promotional nor overly negative. Also, articles need to present a full picture of the subject: material cannot be removed from an article just because it portrays the subject in a bad light. (This wasn't an issue with your edit, but it happens a lot with articles about celebrities.)
 * Third, Wikipedia has a very clear policy about editors with conflict of interest. Put simply, because you're an employee of the museum, you should not edit its article. You can request changes to the article at its talk page (in this case, Talk:Mexican Museum); you should let an independent editor with no connection to the museum make the actual edit.
 * Fourth, information in articles should be verifiable. One of the things you did was to remove all of the references from the article. Readers need to be able to identify the reliable sources on which articles are based. As a general rule, we can't use something that the subject writes about itself as a source. However, for certain items—and date of founding would probably be one of them—we could cite the museum's own history (a self-published source). If that contradicts with something that's been published in an independent source, then there will need to be a discussion at the talk page to determine which source is most authoritative and reliable.


 * So, short answer to your question. If you would like the material to be corrected, make a request at Talk:Mexican Museum that indicates what specifically should be changed as well as a source (preferably independent) where the change can be verified. —C.Fred (talk) 00:10, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Sol.sheri, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Mexican Museum has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 19:32, 26 July 2016 (UTC)