Suzbailey23

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Chandrajit Bajaj

The recent edit you made has been reverted, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ttonyb1 (talk) 17:44, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I'm getting warnings that I am in copyright violation on my entry and I don't understand why. There is absolutely nothing I have posted that violates copyright that I know of. I have been tasked with creating a Wikipedia entry for Dr. Bajaj and am merely trying to publish the material he sent me to publish.

This is my first entry to Wikipedia, which I'm sure is COPIOUSLY obvious to an expert like yourself.

I would like to add that Dr. Bajaj is extremely demanding; I am not looking forward to him coming in this afternoon and browbeating me for this task not being completed.

Sick to my stomach now, Suzbailey23 (talk)Suzanne Bailey

Oh boy. I ain't gonna say nothing to help your stomach. Firstly, it violates our policy WP:Copyvio to add verbatim text from any site that does not release to the public domain, GFDL, or Creative Commons. All material on Wikipedia must be releasable under the GFDL. That means if it is undercopyrighte anywhere else, it cannot be used here. You say you put the article up on orders from the subject? Wikipedia is not for advertising, and this is an obvious conflict of interest. Another thing is he cannot control or dictate content here. Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia, not a webhost or a place for him to put up free advertising. Below the edit summary box when you save the article is a statement that says it all-- Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable. By saving, you agree to irrevocably release your contribution under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GFDL. You agree to be credited, at minimum through a hyperlink or URL, when the page you are contributing to is reused in any form. See the Terms_of_Use for details. Below the box it says, "If you do not want your writing to be edited and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. If you did not write this yourself, it must be available under terms consistent with the Terms of use, and you agree to follow any relevant licensing requirements." You need to follow those links. Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:26, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

At any rate, the article now needs to be written in a neutral point of view (see- WP:NPOV). It needs to meet the guidelines for articles about people (see-- WP:BIO and WP:BLP, especially WP:BLP. The article needs verifiable information from significant coverage in reliable, 3rd party sources not controlled by the subject (see WP:N, WP:RS, WP:V.) Hope this helps. Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:57, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I will read up on the items you cited and re-write the article in a more neutral perspective. Several other of the faculty in our institutes have Wikipedia pages; I will also examine them for style and content.

Am I correct in assuming I should delete the entire Bajaj entry and start over again in the Sandbox?

Thanks again, Suzbailey23 (talk)suzanne

You are welcome. Not unless there is still copyrighted material in there. You might just want to shorten it to a few declarative statements-- Subject is a blah blah at blah blah from blah balh. Start with the most important positions first. Provide reliable sources for any content. Cheers Dlohcierekim (talk) 19:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I have updated the Chandrajit Bajaj entry with some references. I deleted the several "citation needed" links in the first section, as the references I added now cover them... and then I realized that perhaps I'm not authorized to delete them and the person who put them there is supposed to delete them? For that reason I have not deleted any other "citation needed" links in the article yet. Please let me know if I can remove them myself. I don't want to run into a vandalism issue again, even by accident.

Also, this entry is still flagged for having no references, and for plagiarism and vandalism; issues which I feel have been resolved and I'd like to see those flags removed if possible.

Many thanks again for your time and expertise, Suzbailey23 (talk) 19:23, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Chandrajit Bajaj, you will be blocked from editing. Please stop adding copyrighted material to Wikipedia articles. If you insist on continuing such action, you will be banned from editing or creating articles. ttonyb1 (talk) 17:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

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Chandrajit Bajaj

Do not remove the fact tags until the issues are resolved. ttonyb1 (talk) 13:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

The issues have been resolved; I did not remove any tags that were not satisfied by the references added. Have you even checked the references to see if they satisfy the fact tags? You seem to have plenty of time to edit the page, but none to answer any of the issues I brought to your attention yesterday... and apparently no time to check the references. Suzbailey23 (talk) 14:13, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

I think you should ask TonyB, but it looks like there is information that is not sourced? Perhaps you could replace the cite needed tags with reference tags showing where you got the info? Also, the sources used seem to be his info pages at UT or Purdue. Those are not reliable third party sources unconnected with the subject. While it can be expected that they vetted the information, other sources would be better because of the direct connection with the subject. Are there sources of information about the subject that are not connected to him in some way? You might contact USER:DGG for help in sourcing this as he is an expert on articles about scholars. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 21:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)