Talk:Opera Company of Brooklyn

Copyright problem removed

One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from: http://www.operabrooklyn.com/thecompany.htm http://www.operabrooklyn.com/rap.htm. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (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.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 12:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

• Note also that even if the copyright owner gives permission, the original text is overly promotional and unecyclopedic and will require extensive copy-editing. Voceditenore (talk) 12:31, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Future editing

Future editors, especially those who are affiliated in any way with the Opera Company of Brooklyn or one of its collaborators, must adhere to the following guidelines when editing it.

1. Before even starting to edit it again, please read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for guidance.
2. Remember that you are writing for an international readership, not simply Americans, and not simply your potential customers.
3. This is an encyclopedia article, not the web page of your organization or its blog. Do not add casting calls, ticket information, donation or sponsorship solicitation, or overly-detailed information which is primarily aimed at other orgnizations or potential students on the Resident Artist Program. The external link to the official website is at the bottom of the article, for readers who are interested in it. That is sufficient.
4. All additions must be neutrally worded and use encyclopedic tone and style. Any additions which can be perceived by a neutral reader as hype or PR will be removed. See Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms for guidance.
5. Do not paste in text from your or anyone else's official websites, blogs etc. Apart from the almost invariably unsuitable promotional style, it is a copyright violation unless the sites explicitly display a public domain license. Further guidance can be found on Wikipedia:Copyright violations and its associated pages.
6. Remember, that once you have written an article on Wikipedia, you and/or your organization no longer own it. It will always have to conform to Wikipedia's policies on content, style and formatting – not to your organization's desired image or marketing goals. Further guidance can be found on Wikipedia:Ownership of articles.

– Voceditenore (talk) 12:36, 23 December 2009 (UTC)