User talk:Ahaugan

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Ahaugan, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Maine West High School 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.

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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. John from Idegon (talk) 21:07, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ahaugan. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Maine West High School, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 18:09, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Further

The quote below was copied from a deleted edit on my talk page.

John-

I would appreciate it if you would stop editing the Maine West High School page and reverting my changes. I am the principal and would think my edits should have some authority. I have not violated any copyright laws as they are MY works and MY language. In addition, the logo used is ours and is not copyrighted. The old "M" being used was added by someone else and it does not represent Maine West. As you are not associated with the school, I would imagine you would not know some of the things added, however, many other schools have their distinguished alum listed as their "Notable Alum" and we would like to do the same. I can quote myself if that would be preferred. Please stop reverting my changes.

If there is something else I need to do to prove who I am or get other permissions, please advise.

Dr. Audrey Haugan, Maine West principalAhaugan (talk) 9:48 am, Today (UTC−6)

As an educated person, surely you understand the tertiary nature of an encyclopedia. The article Maine West High School is NOT in any way the property of the school, nor is it for the school's benefit. This is not social media. Your editing is way promotional in nature and is not going to stand. Take any further concerns you have to the article's talk page, and realize that you need to declare your conflict of interest there, you should not edit the actual article at all and that your concerns carry no special weight due to your position. John from Idegon (talk) 18:16, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be posting this on my talk page also, and marking the article's talk page to show your conflict of interest. John from Idegon (talk) 18:17, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Further to what John posted, I suggest you review Wikipedia:Ownership of content. As its summary says:

No one "owns" content (including articles or any page at Wikipedia). If you create or edit an article, others can make changes, and you cannot prevent them from doing so. In addition, you should not undo their edits without good reason. Disagreements should be calmly resolved, starting with a discussion on the article talk page.

--Drm310 (talk) 01:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

October 2016

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Ahaugan, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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