User talk:JamesBrownNFNPA

Welcome[edit]

Hello, JamesBrownNFNPA, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page ‎New Forest Coastal Heritage Project have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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May 2010[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article New Forest Coastal Heritage Project, 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, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. I realise you are probably unaware of our guidelines and policies, so I am asking you to read them. You've also violated our policy on copyright. If you wish to give away your copyright to us it needs to be done formally (I put it that way as you do have to release your copyright to us and it can then be used by others, even published for profit.) Dougweller (talk) 11:26, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to New Forest Coastal Heritage Project 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. I've added a copyvio template which hides the text - I could have deleted it but want to keep it until the issues are clarified. Another editor has doubts about its notability and it may be better off as a short paragraph in the New Forest article, with the name left as a redirect to it. Don't take any of this personally, what you are trying to do is great, it's just that you are new and there's a learning curve (which never goes away, believe me). Dougweller (talk) 11:30, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]