User talk:Cctampabay
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.crisiscenter.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=55&tabid=54. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details.
This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 15:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:37, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
To answer your question...
[edit]Hello, Annie! There are a couple of issues here, but none which can't be overcome. First, there's the conflict of interest as outlined above based on both the text and your username. It's OK to write about an organization you're involved with, but it should be done so in a neutral manner. Next is copyright. Even though you work for the organization which owns it, it would first have to be released under this site's license over on your exisitng webpage. Problem: It more or less voids your original copyright and allows anyone to use it for pretty much any reason. Solution: Writing about the organization in your own words using the company site as a reference, thereby protecting your copyright. You can in fact write about it on a user subpage. Click on User:Cctampabay/Crisis Center of Tampa Bay to open a page which will allow you to create the article off of the main article space. When it's done, simply paste the text back to your original title. WP:YFA has information you can use to format the article. Thanks for asking and thanks for being nice about it. I wish you and your organization the best. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
This kind of activity is considered spamming and forbidden by policies, and also violates our username policy.
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