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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 19:31, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

January 2013

Hello, ASWPC. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council

Hi thanks for the edit. I've removed the citation / reference to the website and reposted. Please advice if that's ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ASWPC (talk • contribs) 19:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there ASWPC,

The issue with the page is not the usage of a citation or reference that points to it - instead was that the submitted article contained a word-for-word copy of another website. This, in turn, meant that the article was a copyright violation as the website in question clearly states that the content on is copyrighted under a license that is incompatible with Wikipedia (Wikipedia can only accept content published under CC-BY-SA or GDFL directly). Note that it is a bad idea to copy pages word for word regardless of copyright status, since websites are rarely written in an encyclopic writing style. For reference, the page in question was:

Note that copyright is automatically granted on written content whether asserted or not, and that the copyright status decides if content can be used on Wikipedia, regardless of who owns the copyright. So even if you would be the original writer of that content the license on the page would prevent the content from being used as-is. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 21:07, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]