User talk:Carmaz

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[edit] Copyright issue

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Leadership Lessons from the Great Pyramids article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. FreplySpang 09:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Adding a GFDL release to the original article, as you suggested, will take care of our requirements. It only needs to be on the original site, and it doesn't allow anyone else to take credit for it. If you repost this article, it would be helpful if you left a note mentioning the GFDL release on the article's talk page. However, please be aware that articles on Wikipedia need to follow our encyclopedic style. Articles should be written from a neutral point of view and not based in original thought or research. Our guide to writing better articles points out some of the other ways that Wikipedia articles are different from essays. Your article may be edited drastically to fit, or even deleted if other editors collectively decide that it is an unsuitable topic. FreplySpang 16:13, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Arthur Carmazzi, 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:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Qworty (talk) 21:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button Image:Signature_icon.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 09:40, 7 April 2008 (UTC)