User talk:Annthomas

Welcome![edit]

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Welcome![edit]

Hello, Annthomas, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Chung Ling Butterworth High School, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Widefox; talk 09:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016[edit]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Chung Ling Butterworth High School. 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. Widefox; talk 09:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Jit Sin High School, you may be blocked from editing. Widefox; talk 09:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Chung Ling (Private) High School. [1] Widefox; talk 09:19, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016[edit]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove the maintenance templates from Wikipedia articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Chung Ling (Private) High School. and Chung Ling Butterworth High School Widefox; talk 15:05, 5 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Chung Ling Butterworth High School) has been reviewed![edit]

Thanks for creating Chung Ling Butterworth High School, Annthomas!

Wikipedia editor Boleyn just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Are your external links actually your sources? If so, can you please move them inline, because with no clear sources, this risks deletion. Thanks for your hard work.

To reply, leave a comment on Boleyn's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Boleyn (talk) 17:48, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Annthomas, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Chung Ling Butterworth High School have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:54, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]