User talk:York House School

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Welcome to Wikipedia, York House School! Thank you for your contributions. I am BrillLyle and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello York House School, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to York House School 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.

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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) 19:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

September 2019

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

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

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Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:29, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Any future account must comply with Wikipedia's mandatory Paid editing disclosure and the guideline for editing with a conflict of interest. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:31, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

York House School (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

karmk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Decline reason:

Sorry, we already have a user with the name, Karr.nk. You are welcome to pick a new username. Note that you'll be required to abide by the policies we've linked you to already. Yamla (talk) 14:16, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

York House School (talk) 16:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, York House School. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page York House School, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See WP:PAID. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi York House School. If you are the Communication Manager of York House School as you stated this user talk page post, then you would be subject to not only Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, but also to Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure with respect to anything written about the school on Wikipedia. This applies to you as a person regardless of which username you choose for your account or regardless of how many accounts you create to edit. The same also applies to any other school employees or representatives which might wish to edit or create content about the school on Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't expressly forbid COI editing, but it does highly discourage it and strongly advises all such editors to follow the guideline listed in Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Wikipedia does, however, prohibit undeclared paid or otherwise compensated editing; doing so is a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and can lead to an account being blocked (even without warning) by a Wikipedia administrator. As long as COI/Paid editors follow relevant problems and guidelines, they should have no problems with others. So, my suggestion to you would be to refrain from directly editing/creating any article content about the school (except perhaps in some of the examples given in WP:COIADVICE) and instead follow WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement if you want to propose changes/correction be made to the article.

You need to try and understand per Wikipedia:Ownership of content that neither the school nor anyone associated with it has any final editorial control over article content; in other words, it is not the school's Wikipedia article, but a Wikipedia article written about the school. As Communication Manager you may have some or complete control over the school's official website or social media accounts, etc., but that doesn't extend to Wikipedia in anyway. Article content is required to be in accordance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines and content which is not can be removed at any time by any editor; moreover, any disagreements over content between editors are expected to be resolved per Wikipedia:Dispute resolution by establishing a Wikipedia:Consensus.

Finally, please be advised that Wikipedia doesn't allow accounts to be shared among multiple users; you appear to be currently be sorting out the issues with your username, but you should be the only person using this account. Account suspected of being used by multiple individuals may be considered to be comprised and thus indefinitely blocked as a precaution. So, if anyone else at your school wants to propose changes to the article, please ask them to create their own account.

If you have any questions about any of this, you can ask them below, at the Wikipedia Teahouse or at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Precisely the problem with the article is that 'All the information is from our website (York House School)' - the kind of promotional claims made on the school's website are strictly disallowed here on Wikipedia and have been removed. Also, the onus is on contributors to familiarise themselves with Wikiedia's policies and guidelines - which you as a Communications Manager should have no difficulty in understanding. We do have plenty of help pages though. These may be a good start: WP:NOTABILITY, WP:RS, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:36, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you. I realize that now after reading the Conflict of Interest and Paid Contribution Disclosure articles. I'm just waiting for my new user name to be approved. When does that happen? York House School (talk) 16:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again York House School. It's going to take an administrator to unblock your account and a global renamer to change your name. I'm neither and I'm not sure if all admins are global renamers or vice versa. It usually doesn't take too long unless there's a problem with the "new" username (i.e. it violates WP:IU or something else); so, please be patient and perhaps it will happen sometime soon. I'll ping the admin Cullen328 who blocked the account; maybe he can give you more specific information. Finally, I restored the section heading to this thread; for some reason, you added your signature before the heading which caused some problems with the heading's formatting. I'm assuming this was just a mistake, but you can just undo my edit if it wasn't. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:33, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:YorkHouseSchool-Vancouver-BC-Canada.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:YorkHouseSchool-Vancouver-BC-Canada.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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