May 2018

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  Hello, I'm Meters. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, St. Joseph Central Catholic High School, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Don't add alumni unless they have both a wikipedia article and reliable sources showing their attendance at the school Meters (talk) 18:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello Brycpark, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to St. Joseph Central Catholic High School have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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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 leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Meters (talk) 18:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

May 2018

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  Your addition to St. Joseph Central Catholic High School has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Stop doing this. This is a verbatim copyvio from the school's webpage. Wikipedia cannot use this material. You will be blocked if you continue to do this. As for the rest of my edits, see WP:WPSCH/AG Meters (talk) 18:33, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at St. Joseph Central Catholic High School. Do not restore the copyrighted material again. If you intent to use an acceptable paraphrased version of it then prepare the material outside of Wikipedia and upload the result. Meters (talk) 18:39, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply


You need to review the material before you instantly undo changes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brycpark (talkcontribs) 18:43, May 18, 2018 (UTC)
I did look at it. It is a copyright violation, You need to stop doing this, and read WP:3RR while you are at it. Meters (talk) 18:46, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Please read WP:TALK. Sign and indent your talk page posts, and don't delete threads from others' page as you did here [1]. It's not your place to remove your comments once they have been replied to, or to remove my responses. It's also not your place to decide that issue has been resolved. I've asked that the copyrighted material be revdel'ed from the article, and I've reported you to AIV.
I understand now that Huntington Prep is part of St. Joseph's, so I'll restore Andrew Wiggins and Thomas Bryant as alumni, but properly linked and with an explanatory note. Note that we cannot use Wikipedia as a source as you attempted to do. There is no evidence that Bryce Parker is either notable or attended the school. Meters (talk) 19:49, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Adding names that aren't remotely notable

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You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.
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OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:57, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

 
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content.
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I've extended your block to indefinite because you edit warred to restore copyright violations. MER-C 20:05, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply