Simohnjon

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April 2014

Hello Simohnjon, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Juno Award has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without 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.

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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. Dl2000 (talk) 01:04, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Juno Award edits

You were adding considerable detail about a Juno Classical Music Showcase, which had several problems. The biggest was the copyright concern since some of the details added were identical to those found on other website materials e.g. this webpage. That was actually from the WCMA, not the Junos as such, although the Junos may have a classical showcase. The material was also lacking in references to support the content - note Wikipedia policies and practices such as WP:V, WP:CITE, WP:RS. Also, there seemed to be a bit much undue detail given that other aspects of Juno Week are not yet included in the Juno Award article. Hopefully this better explains the concerns. It would be a better strategy to simply add a brief sentence or two of the classical showcase, in your own words, supported by a reference citation. Other Juno Week event details can be added later to support topical balance. Dl2000 (talk) 01:10, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

February 2015

Your addition to Juno Award 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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) 03:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Juno Award. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 03:02, 1 February 2015 (UTC)