User talk:Mrorangina

February 2016

Your addition to Royal College Curepipe 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. You can't copy stuff from Facebook into Wikipedia. DanielRigal (talk) 20:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. You have indicated on my talk page that you have been sent here by the school to edit its article. That may not be your fault personally but you need to stop. That article has been pretty much spam for far too long. It can not be filled up with stuff plagiarised from Facebook or intended to promote the school. If the school wants an advert then it can pay for one, but not on Wikipedia as we don't have adverts. I did let you keep the more notable alumni you added, and (to prove that I am not just being mean) I'll even go back and put the logo and photo back, but the plagiarism and the advertising have to stop! DanielRigal (talk) 21:18, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have put 2 of your 3 the pictures back and added a few more alumni. It has only one maintenance tag on it now. Although the article if far from great it now looks better to me than it has done for years. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:31, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Daniel. Thanks for improving the page, and undoing some of the deletes. This is proof that we make mistakes and sometimes have to step back and think. I would like you to think really hard where the line is between "deleting what I perceive as vandalism" and "vandalising what someone added" You might be very knowledgeable about copyrights and such, but that does not mean your opinions are better than someone else's.

Please tell me how pictures of govt building can be copyrighted, what state school has to gain from advertising, why motto of a school cannot be allowed on wiki, why history needs to be written by rephrasing but effectively telling the same story

Also, I believe that it would be safer to just copy-paste what historians have written on the official website of the school than try to rewrite it. You say that I can be banned from wikipedia, I'm telling you that you could be sued for defaming an institution of the state.

Please be very careful. Making any sort of legal threat on Wikipedia is very likely to get you blocked due to our policy: Wikipedia:No legal threats. In fact, if I did not know that you are still at school I would have reported that threat. I'll let it slide if you do not raise it again. Apart from that, you are completely mistaken to talk about defamation. I have not defamed the school at all and neither Wikipedia nor myself are subject to the laws of Mauritius anyway. (If anybody really does commit defamation on Wikipedia the administrators can deal with it.)

Please also understand that copy and and pasting is the very worst thing you can do on Wikipedia. There is nothing safe about it! That material is not ours to copy even if we wanted it. (There are a very few things that we are allowed to copy and paste but you need to understand copyright and attribution well to do it safely!)

I have already replied you you in more detail on my own talk page. Please have a look at that.

I think you should talk to your IT teacher about this. Maybe your English teacher can also help you to understand that this is not just about what writing is fundamentally good or bad but also about what types of writing are appropriate in different circumstances. For example, it is absolutely fine for the school to use words like "prestigious" to describe itself on its own website but such promotional words are very problematic on Wikipedia. --DanielRigal (talk) 22:28, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 23:11, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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