Tfelderman

January 2015

Hello Tfelderman, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Crestwood High School (Iowa) 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.

• 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 a cited source. 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.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. Meters (talk) 04:33, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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Conflict of interest

Hello, Tfelderman. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Crestwood High School (Iowa)‎, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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.
• 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. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

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. Meters (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

January 2015

Please do not restore the copyrighted material to Crestwood High School (Iowa) until after you have followed the procedure to grant Wikipedia the right to use the material. As I said on my talkpage, Wikipedia cannot host the material until you do so. Note that granting Wikipedia the right to use the material does not mean that Wikipedia will use the material. As I already pointed out in at least one of the edit summaries, some of the material you posted is simply not appropriate for Wikipedia since it is not of interest to anyone but members of the school community. Furthermore, some of the material you have added this time is clearly not copyrighted by you or the school. For example, you cannot grant us the right to use material from [1], which is copyrighted by the Iowa Department of Education. I'm sorry, but I am going to have to undo your additions again. If and when you provide Wikipedia with permission to use the material you can retrieve your edits from the edit history (rather than redoing them from scratch). Of course, you could also avoid the copyright issue by rewriting the material in your own words. Meters (talk) 22:28, 2 January 2015 (UTC)