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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Sevag.gharibian, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Computational Complexity Conference have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 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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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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:25, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

@Diannaa: Dear Diannaa, thank you for your notes and edits. Two questions: (1) The Wiki page for CCC was created by members of the board of trustees for CCC, i.e. myself (Secretary) and the president (Dieter van Melkebeek). This is why we had permission to use the wording from the original CCC and CCF webpages. The current version of the wiki page now looks drastically different than what we intended. (2) Shortly after I uploaded the page, a user Comatmebro made incorrect edits (eg broke links and put in wrong spelling). Is there any way to prevent this? Thank you. Sevag.gharibian (talk) 14:52, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

There are a couple of problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

Another problem is conflict of interest. Editing the article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a place to advertise, and organisations are not in control of the material posted in our articles. So even if the material is released under a compatible license, it must meet our guidelines for inclusion. We don't accept advertising, for example. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:32, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. Ok, we will rewrite it to meet the copyright standard. Just to be clear, CCF is a non-profit organization, and none of us are paid; we are academics who volunteer to run this service for the academic community. There were already a number of references to the conference on Wikipedia, and it seemed someone should finally expand the conference's Wikipedia stub. (ie our aim is not advertising, so I believe this shouldn't place us in a COI position.)