User talk:LiberalArtsCollegeEditor

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16:02, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Connection to College of the Holy Cross‎?

Do you have a connection to College of the Holy Cross‎? ElKevbo (talk) 23:50, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop editing until you answer this question; Wikipedia has policies that prohibit undisclosed paid editing and discourage conflicts of interest. ElKevbo (talk) 23:30, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I do not have any connections to the College of the Holy Cross. I am a high school teacher that also does college admissions consulting for prospective students looking at LACs. I am aware of Wikipedia's policy guidelines concerning conflicts of interest and on avoiding academic boosterism.LiberalArtsCollegeEditor (talk) 23:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response and welcome to Wikipedia! ElKevbo (talk) 23:51, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello LiberalArtsCollegeEditor, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to College of the Holy Cross have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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.
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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. — Diannaa (talk) 12:08, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]