User talk:StacyLWestfall

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Copyrights

Hi, your edits to Stacy Westfall were reverted for several reasons:

They were unsourced but appear to be from http://www.westfallhorsemanship.com/content/meetus/ and related pages, but without any footnoting or other attribution. Both verbatim copying and use of unattributed material are a violation of wikipedia's guidelines. Please see the pages here at WP:COPYVIO, WP:V and WP:CITE
In adding this material, you removed properly cited and footnoted material. This is something that you should not do unless you are going to replace the source with better material with even more accurate sources, preferably neutral, third party ones.
This is an article which is a biography of a living person, and thus ALL content must be sourced. Your edit provided no sources. See WP:BLP for wikipedia's policies on protecting the reputation of living people who have wikipedia articles.
Finally, given your user name and the article title, you may have a conflict of interest in editing this article and citing only to one's own website may also violate wikipedia's restrictions on advertising. While a personal web site is good for things that are not easily found anywhere else, in general, it is best to use article sources that are neutral and from third parties. See WP:COI, WP:NOADS, and WP:NPOV for more information.
On the other hand, if you have no affiliation with the person who is the subject of this article, then you might be falsely claiming to be someone you aren't which is, at the very least, something that may be of concern to the real person. If this is the case, no matter how much you admire this individual, I suggest you change your user name to something else that avoids you being confused with the real person.

I hope this helps you improve the article if you wish to continue to work on it. Feel free to ask me or any of the more senior editors on wikipedia for help. If you want to see how an article on a horse professional can be done within WP guidelines, using some of that person's own web site, but not violating WP's neutrality policies, a couple examples include Martha Josey and Sheila Varian. The Josey article isn't the greatest, but though it uses her own web site as a source for some material, it is at least toned down from the personal public relations tone that often characterizes personal web sites and the wording tries to avoid any verbatim copying. The Varian article is a bit stronger, with more third party sources, and has been given Good Article status on wikipedia by going through an extensive peer review process (yeah, I wrote it...smile) However, even it probably can't get to our highest Featured Article status because it still has a little too much material coming from the person's own web site. But these may give you some samples to work from. In contrast, the article on Linda Tellington-Jones was deleted completely from wikipedia because it was just a copy and paste from the person's own web site, and no one cared enough to rework it properly, so the administrators here tossed it, Montanabw^(talk) 17:38, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]