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Good luck and happy editing. ```Buster Seven Talk 14:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Multiple issues

Hello, Stratfordeast. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
• Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. 76.248.149.47 (talk) 14:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

It appears that much of the content you're adding is unsourced, of non-encyclopedic tone, and perhaps copied from other websites in violation of copyright law. 76.248.149.47 (talk) 14:25, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Your user name

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Stratfordeast", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it seems to indicate that you are editing on behalf of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. Wikipedia usernames must be for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and we do not permit accounts which represent groups or organizations, or whose names seem to indicate that they do.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 18:03, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Copyright and promotion

Wikipedia cannot accept material already published elsewhere unless a formal copyright release is made. Assertion of permission to use is not enough: for one thing, we need to be certain that the person posting the information has the necessary authority; for another, release to Wikipedia involves more than simply permission to reproduce: Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license allows readers to copy, modify, and re-use for any purpose including commercial, and it is essential that the actual copyright owner understands and agrees. This is explained at Wikipedia:Copy-paste and Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations, and the methods of giving permission are explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.

It is seldom worth making a copyright release, because material written for other purposes is usually unsuitable, from promotional tone or excessive detail, for an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia should not be seen as a notice-board to pin up copies of material which is better placed on an organization's own web-site.

A Wikipedia article is not OWNed by anyone, not by its authors and least of all by its subject. If you are connected with the Theatre Royal then, even with an individual username you would have, as explained above, a WP:Conflict of interest in editing about it, and should carefully read that policy and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. One reason why COI editing is discouraged is that COI editors' ideas of what is or is not promotional often differ from ours, and WP:Neutral point of view is one of our fundamental policies. The long passage that an IP (probably you editing while not logged in) has been trying to insert may not seem to you promotional (though it includes phrases like "took Paris by storm... arrived back at Stratford in glory... ", but it reads clearly as the Theatre telling the world about itself. That is the job of your website, not of an encyclopedia.

Wikipedia content is decided on the basis of WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle - an editor who thinks a change would improve the encyclopedia should be BOLD and make it; but if it is then reverted he should not repeat it (which may lead to an edit war), but discuss it on the article's talk page and endeavour to reach WP:Consensus with other users. Your changes have already been reverted and, with your conflict of interest, you should anyway not be bold, but confine yourself to suggesting changes on the article talk page rather than making them directly.

Finally, please log in each time you edit - it is difficult to conduct a conversation with changing IPs. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:07, 9 October 2012 (UTC)