User talk:Brisbane-archdiocese

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Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Brisbane-archdiocese", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because Wikipedia accounts must be for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and accounts which represent groups or organizations, or whose usernames are names of groups or organizations, are not permitted. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 21:23, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane

I have reverted your addition to this article, because it is copied from http://www.bne.catholic.net.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=11445&cid=7195&id=1708. Wikipedia cannot accept copyright material - see Wikipedia:Copy-paste and for more detail Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations.

It seems likely that you could give permission, but assertion of permission to reproduce text is not enough; copyright is a very serious issue for Wikipedia, and we have to be certain that the person giving a release has the authority to do so, and that the actual copyright holder understands and agrees to Wikipedia's license terms, which allow any reader to copy, modify and re-use material for any purpose including commercial. For those reasons, a formal copyright release is required.

The way to make one is described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials, but it is very seldom worth doing that, because material written for other purposes is generally unsuitable, because of promotional tone or inappropriate detail, for an encyclopedia article.

Wikipedia is not a place for people or organizations to tell the world about themselves and post copies of their own websites. In order to maintain the neutral point of view which is one of its fundamental principles, people are strongly discouraged from editing about themselves or their companies or organizations. Even with an individual user account, in any editing to do with the Archdiocese you would be subject to the guideline Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and should read that and the guide to WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. In summary, do not directly edit any article where you have a COI, but suggest changes on the article talk page and let uninvolved editors decide. ("Editor" means just the same as "User" - there is no separate class of "editors").

I am sorry that this is not better explained at account creation time - Wikipedia is keen to encourage new users to join, and it is felt that giving them advice to read in advance might be a deterrent. I have conversations like this so often that I have writtten User:JohnCD/Not a noticeboard to explain some of the background.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:55, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer instead to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you prefer to change your username rather than create a new account, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you. Alexf^(talk) 17:26, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]