User talk:Suzbookred

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May 2012

Your addition to Round Square has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. This site is copyrighted, and information used, must be reworded, or will be reverted -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 08:18, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome and a chat

Hi Suzbookred. I'm Worm That Turned, an administrator here at Wikipedia. I just thought I'd come over and have a chat about how things work here. It's a little unusual, as Wikipedia is a "wiki" and can be edited by anyone. To get round the inherent problems with contradicting information, we have adopted a few fundamental policies - Information which is added must be written in a neutral point of view, must be verifiable and so on. Any words which are linked could be clicked and you can get a lot more information about what's the full connotations of that are.

When there's a disagreement about what information should be included, that can be interpreted by our policies, we use the consensus of discussions to make sure the community agrees. As such, all voices are equal and the weight of arguments are what really count. We're all volunteers here, and it's these volunteers who decide on the content that is shown.

Now, there's two other policies which are particularly prevalent in your situations. Firstly, our conflict of interest policy (which are nicely summed up at our plain and simple guide), which deal with editors such as yourself who want to add information on your own company. This is allowed, as long as it's written in a neutral manner and the information is sourced to third party sources. Secondly, there's our copyright policies. We need all contributions to be released under CC-BY-SA commons license, which mean that they can be re-used, edited or even sold. Because we cannot be certain who you are, we cannot accept copy and pasted information from the website, as it has not been released under the license. There's two ways around that though. You can change the website to make it clear that it's releasing the copy under CC-BY-SA license, or you can send a declaration to our OTRS team from your work email address - confirming you are willing and able to license that text.

I hope that helps answer your questions. Please do feel free to come and ask me if you have any more. Worm^TT · (talk) 14:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I and another editor, Anthonyhcole, had left you messages at User talk:Suzroundsquare, which I think is your earlier account. I'll just repeat my comment here, which was to give you some pointers on how to write and source your material:

For sources about Hahn for example, see [1]. It is perfectly okay to look at these books in Google Books, and reflect what they say in the Round Square article. There are independent third-party sources there in Google Books that say much the same that you want to say, and these are appropriate sources to cite as references.

Also have a look at Anthony's message on your old user talk page, if you haven't seen it already. Best, --J N 466 12:44, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suzbookred, have a look at [2]. I have started adding some material on Hahn, based on an independent third-party source I found in Google Books: [3] This seems like an excellent source to me, and it contains a lot more detail that you could add. To cite the book as a reference for further material you want to add, simply add <ref name="ThomsonLafortune1999"/> at the end of the sentence. That will automatically add a footnote number at the end of your sentence, pointing at the footnote for that book. Remember that you have to reformulate any material from the book in your own words. If there is anything you want to use verbatim, you have to mark it as a quotation, using quotation marks, and you need to say in the text whom you're quoting.

There are other books in Google Books that may be useful. See these search results: [4] Generally go, as much as possible, for books by larger publishers that have a good name in their field. This tool will come in very handy if you want to cite another book as a reference. Simply paste the Google Books URL into the URL field, and click Load. The tool will then generate a complete reference template for you. And remember: everything in Wikipedia has to be written from the standpoint of a neutral third party. So you mustn't write things like "Everything we do at Round Square ...". But what you can do is summarise, in your own words, what third-party sources have written about Round Square. Try to do as much as possible without citing Round Square's own website. In particular, don't cite your own website for such things as praise, or anything that might be construed as self-serving. You have no need to: there are plenty of independent third-party sources that are appreciative and respectful of what Round Square does.

Just in case -- if all of this sounds horribly complicated, don't worry. It takes time to assimilate, but after a while it becomes second nature. Feel free to ask me or User:Anthonyhcole for help, and I very much hope that you will be able to forgive Wikipedia the unfriendly reception! Happy editing. --J N 466 20:50, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]