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JohnCD (talk) 10:54, 20 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

August 2015

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  Your addition to Swire Properties has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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. Dl2000 (talk) 22:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Swire Properties. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 22:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Swire Properties. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 22:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Swire Properties

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As indicated, the text you kept adding is mostly from the company's website. Please read Wikipedia:Copyrights for a more detailed explanation of the policies. Also the content should not closely resemble the source text (see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing). While much of the content you added wasn't always opinionated in tone, the Taikoo Place section was one example of promotional language e.g. wording in Taikoo Place section "cutting-edge", "top-notch" were red flags here - this is a potential consequence of copying too much official material from a subject's official website. This falls under the a core "NPOV" policy (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view); also note the issues raised in Wikipedia:Spam. We also prefer to include sources that are not "primary" (that is, from the subject) - please take some time to read WP:PSTS for a better explanation. Hope these items provide a better explanation of the concerns here. Dl2000 (talk) 03:36, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply