User talk:Ethridgem

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ethridgem, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Texas Technology Students Association, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Texas Technology Students Association[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Texas Technology Students Association requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.texastsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Texas-TSA-Handbook2016_17.pdf. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Crow^Caw 23:40, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Conflcit of interest editing[edit]

Hello, Ethridgem. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Texas Technology Students Association, 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);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:52, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Technology Students Association[edit]

Hello Ethridgem, thanks for disclosing your interest. Copyright is automatically granted and even if you do not claim it, it applies. As copyright owner you do have permission to reproduce extra copies. However on Wikipedia we need proof of that. It could be that someone is pretending to be the copyright owner, but is not, they could be impersonating you. The simplest way for you is to add a copyright notice to your own website to say that all content is released under public domain, as you can do that in USA. Other licenses that would be compatible are CC-0 or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (the last requires attribution). Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]