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Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://davidstern.co/page_01bio_eng.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
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Note also that even if the material on that page were freely licensed, it was promotionally written and entirely unsuitable for an encyclopedia article. Voceditenore (talk) 17:11, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This time from: http://www.ekkehardjung.de/data/other/EJAP-DavidStern-bio-en.pdf. Note also that when updating or adding to an article, do so incrementally. The wholesale paste of material which overwrites existing formatting and removes references is entirely unacceptable. User:David Stern Conductor, do not do this again. In addition to copyright violations, any additions which overwrite the article destroying formatting and references, fail to add independent references to support the claims, and which would be perceived as promotional by any neutral observer will be removed on sight. As you have an obvious conflict of interest here, you should not be editing this article at all, let alone adding unreferenced name-dropping laundry lists and promotional assertions like "David Stern has been committed to developing young voices". As I have explained to numerous artists and/or their PR people who attempt this sort of thing, this kind of self-serving content stands out a mile away and seriously detracts from the subject's image rather than enhancing it. Voceditenore (talk) 10:59, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
