User talk:Rflewismuseum
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[edit]Hello, Rflewismuseum, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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Edits reverted
[edit]Hi Rflewismuseum, and thank you for your edits to Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture! From what I've read, your institution sounds like a fascinating place to visit. Your efforts to help expand Wikipedia's coverage of this museum are greatly appreciated. There is, however, one small problem: the text you added appear to be copied or closely paraphrased from this website [1]. Wikipedia is an open-source project: we are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which permits our readers to reuse our text for whatever purpose they desire. The copyright policy on the Lewis Museum's website does not permit commercial use. Therefore, Wikipedia lacks permission to reuse text from the museum website, as its licensing policy is incompatible with our free license. Therefore, I have reverted your edits to the article. If you or your organization holds the copyright to your proposed text and is willing to release it under a free license, it is possible to grant Wikipedia permission for reuse by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. But the preferred solution is to simply rewrite the text in your own words, which has the added benefit of maintaining a consistent editorial tone across Wikipedia's articles. Please don't hesitate to add any inquiries on this page. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 16:27, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Rflewismuseum, you are invited to the Teahouse!
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