User talk:Przemek-slu

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Control copyright icon Hello Przemek-slu! Your additions to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. —Sirdog (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand the problem with the particular text we have added. It has been developed by our writer specifically for this purpose. Przemek-slu (talk) 14:59, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Your response indicates to me that you may have a conflict of interest with CUNY. If you are employed by or otherwise have a close relationship to CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, then you are encouraged to disclose that relationship. You are also strongly discouraged from editing CUNY directly and instead you should make edit requests for neutral editors to review and implement. If any institution is paying you to edit any Wikipedia article, including CUNY, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose who is paying you. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure for instructions on how to do that.
In response to the reply directly, as explained above, all content added to Wikipedia must be released under a free license. The CUNY website indicates all rights are reserved, so even if a writer wrote the content for the purpose of describing the institution, because it's license is private, Wikipedia may not use it. —Sirdog (talk) 16:26, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]