Drkatzjr41

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Drkatzjr41, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Teachers College, Columbia University have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) 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.

• 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 cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse 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 is 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 or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also 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 leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:30, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Drkatzjr41. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:31, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Teachers College, Columbia University. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Your addition to Teachers College, Columbia University has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 06:54, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Edit

I provided cogent, correct, and original information about this institution Drkatzjr41 (talk) 06:58, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Drkatzjr41 and welcome to Wikipedia. Are you being paid to edit this article? All of your content so far is either copied directly from the school's website (which, as explained above, is not allowed) or super promotional. Please read over WP:PAID and WP:NPOV. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:00, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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Not at all.

Teachers college is known for its psychological alumni. The article fails to mention great pioneers who graduated from TC, including Edward Thorndike, John Dewey, Carl Rogers and Albert Ellis, only to name a few. This should be stated Drkatzjr41 (talk) 07:06, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Do you have a basic conflict of interest then? Do you work for this University? Regarding your comment, no they do not. What you are adding is promotional spam. These people can be listed in the notable alumni or faculty section. All the content you are adding fails WP:NPOV. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:08, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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Let us lighten up a bit. Everything I added was correct, cogent, and succinct 

Drkatzjr41 (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely not. Copyright violations and COI editing are taken very seriously here and you have just re-added copyrighted content after two warnings. You have already been reported. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:14, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

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Ok. Now I only added the following sentence “admission is highly competitive commensurate with other Ivy League institutions Drkatzjr41 (talk) 07:17, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

You never answered my question about a possible COI. Do you have any connection to this university? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 07:18, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 36 hours for persistently making disruptive edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  -- Luk ^talk 09:37, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

You are adding content to Wikipedia that is copyrighted and your edits don't meet out Neutral point of view policy. All content added to Wikipedia must be sourced, neutral, non promotional and original writing. -- Luk ^talk 09:39, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Stop editing

What is wrong with you? Stop editing... you are making yourself look stupid af trying to flower up an encyclopedia page with that kind of language... find something better to do than ruining wiki pages. Thanks CUfiveo (talk) 01:13, 28 March 2019 (UTC)