User talk:TMCF

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Hello, TMCF, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Your user name seems to have the same initials as the Thurgood Marshall College Fund suggesting that you have some connection to that organizaiton. Please review Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules. If you are associated with TMCF, please refrain from editing that article yourself. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 12:47, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
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May 2012
Hello TMCF. 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 Thurgood Marshall College Fund, 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 ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

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. --Drm310 (talk) 17:27, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
Hello, TMCF. Thank you for your interest in helping out with the article Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Unfortunately, some of the content you added proved to be problematic under our copyright policies. It is against our policy to copy or closely paraphrase content from copyrighted sources unless we are able to prove that the source has been licensed compatibly for our site. As long as Thurgoodmarshallfund.net is labeled "All rights reserved. Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Inc.", we cannot use content taken directly from or very closely following it, unless the Wikimedia Foundation is mailed or emailed a licensing statement. Please note that it is not permission for use on Wikipedia that is required; given our own liberal licensing policies, which permit reuse by others, it must be a very specific licensing release. For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are. Given your username, I suspect you are at least affiliated.

Because of this copyright issue, the earlier content has been restored to the article. If license is not provided, you are welcome to add material (keeping in mind the "conflict of interest" recommendations another volunteer supplied above), but you will need to put it in your own words. Please see Copy-paste for more information, including recommendations on how to implement brief quotations within our guidelines. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:50, 5 June 2012 (UTC)