Erlena

Avoiding copyright problems

Hello, and welcome. 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 a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• 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 if public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia: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 visit me at my talk page . Thank you.

Please see wp:copy paste Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 10:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Your addition to http://www.itcilo.org/es/TSD_brochure_EN_1_6_11.pdf has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Cntras (talk) 23:12, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

WARNING

This is your final warning. We cannot accept mass copypaste of material from other sources, even if you are the owner of the content. See WP:C-P, WP:COPYVIO. If you continue to insert the same material, you will be blocked. -Cntras (talk) 13:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and promotion

Hello Erlena. 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 Turin School of Development, 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 following the 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 Wikipedia: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. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Turin School of Development. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for repeated violations of copyright policies at Turin School of Development. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 15:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Note that I'm happy to unblock, or to accept another administrator unblocking you, if you're engaged in discussion about why your edits are problematic, and how best to move forward. I see that you've responded to one editor, but then you continued to make problematic edits to the article. We're happy to work with you, but we need you to stop editing the article and continuing to violate our policies on copied material before that can happen. If you'd agree to work with Cntras or another editor without editing the article, I'd be happy to unblock. Best, UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 15:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Dear Ultraexactzz, I have modified the page many times in order to avoid violations. I think now the page should be ok, there are no more copy pasting. Please check and let me know. I'm sorry to have create problems.

kind regards Elena

No worries. I saw that you were working on it... but the concern was that, despite the changes, what you were posting continued to violate policy. I've asked another user to work directly with you to fix the issues, and hopefully they'll be able to sort everything out for you. In the meantime, looking at the history, I see that you're associated with the subject? Or, at least, with their website? If so, please do have a look at our conflict of interest policy and make sure you're OK with those restrictions. Remember that you need to be careful in situations like this. UltraExactZZ ^Said ~ Did 20:03, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I am associated with the subject, but the previous page had really many errors and was involving institutions that are not part of the school anymore. So I had to change it! I think that at the moment the information on the page is objective. Thank you for your help and i apologise again for any inconvenience i've created.