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Substantial factual changes were made to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Science_Foundation Cluebot reversed these and I reverted back to the changes originally made. These changes are legitimate and in good faith. Please help to keep this page updated. The Archway (talk) 16:53, 26 April 2017 (UTC) The Archway

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 16:26, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Warning regarding replacement of articles with copyrighted/promotional material

Your addition to European Science Foundation has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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) 00:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to European Science Foundation. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 00:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Re: European Science Foundation

Agree that the page should be updated with current details. However, it is important to review some policies at Wikipedia first:

1. First, please review the conflict of interest policy]] carefully. This indicates restrictions on editing articles for subjects with which you are associated. However, there may be some permissions (e.g. removing information that is erroneous and unsupported). You may also use the article's talk page to be more specific about which particular facts should be updated, in keeping with WP:COI guidelines.
2. Information on the page may be obsolete, but it can also be historical detail that should merely be described as such.
3. Material cannot be copied verbatim from websites such as ESF into Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for a description of copyright concerns. That was a major reason why some recent additions to the ESF article were reverted, resulting in the above copyright warning.
4. Even if such copied text can properly free-licenced for Wikipedia use, the content itself may be unduly promotional in tone; that is also unacceptable under Wikipedia policy (Neutral Point of View).

Probably the next step is to describe what specifically needs to be brought up to date on the article, and suggest a few key changes. The talk page also references some "projects" associated with the article e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Science - there may be resources or editors attached to the projects that can assist with article updates. Dl2000 (talk) 03:47, 11 May 2017 (UTC)