User talk:Sommern

Downlands College
Hello Sommern, I am writing to you regarding your series of edits to the Downlands College article, which can be seen here. You appear to have inserted a slab of text which has been lifted straight off the school's official website. Please understand that Wikipedia is a privately owned website, a project to write an original, free, copyright free encyclopedia. It is not a mere mirror or mouthpiece for schools official pr releases or a venue to promote schools. Your material has been removed because we do not accept material that has been copied and pasted from other sources. Apart from that, that type of material is not acceptable for Wikipedia because it is exactly what it was intended to be - promotional material. In future please take care to rewrite information you wish to add to our articles in your own words, using neutral, non-promotional language, and giving appropriate attribution by citing your sources. People who persist in posting material that has been copied from elsewhere, or otherwise violating copyright and plagiarising other people's work, will be blocked because we consider such actions to seriously undermine our goal of creating a neutral, copyright free source of information. Sarah 03:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)