User talk:UW Bothell

July 2015

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to University of Washington Bothell— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:09, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Copyright violation etc

It appears you have added a lot of text lifted straight from UW Bothell's own website to University of Washington Bothell. Doing this is unsuitable for Wikipedia in several ways: it introduces an inappropriately promotional and praiseful tone into the article, and it violates copyright. (Thanks for removing the material, User:Oshwah). Your username suggests you're affiliated with UW Bothell. Are you? Whether or not, we don't allow names of institutions as usernames here; all users need to be recognizably individuals, not collectives. Bishonen | talk 22:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC).

July 2015

Your addition to University of Washington Bothell has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Your edit used content taken straight off this site. ~Oshwah~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:33, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Stop now

Your edit at User talk:Oshwah shows that you do represent the university, rather than yourself as an individual. Please stop now, and respond to my civil inquiry above, instead of continuing to restore the material, or I will block you from editing. Bishonen | talk 22:41, 24 July 2015 (UTC).

Blocked

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, UW Bothell, does not meet our username policy.

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Wikipedia is not a public relations conduit, even when the PR is for an institution that operates for the public good. -- Hoary (talk) 23:16, 24 July 2015 (UTC)