User talk:Ucdavisvetmed

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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! Altamel (talk) 18:27, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Hi Ucdavisvetmed. I reverted your addition at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine because it appears to have been copied from School of Veterinary Medicine Distinctions. 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 issues here. Wikipedia is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, so we cannot include copyrighted text from other sources in our encyclopedia. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 18:33, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Aside from limited quotation, you are welcome to add back the information about UC Davis' discoveries, provided that all information is 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. 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.
 * Your edits adding list of UC Davis discoveries have been reverted for a second time. Wikipedia cannot include copyrighted text as I explained above due to licensing restrictions. Our goal is to build an encyclopedia that anyone can reuse, and that is not possible if we have blocks of text that we don't have permission to reuse scattered across our articles. These are certainly very important scientific discoveries and deserve to be in the article, but they must be properly paraphrased to comply with the Creative Commons license. Otherwise, you must provide proof that you have permission to reuse the text you added, as explained at Donating copyrighted materials. On the other hand, thank you for your other edits to the article. Editing Wikipedia can be a rough experience at first, but there are some rules that must be followed for legal reasons, and I am glad to answer any questions you may have about them. Altamel (talk) 19:14, 23 December 2015 (UTC)