User talk:Virgilisalive

Hello Virgilisalive, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Thomas More College of Liberal Arts have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 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, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:37, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

HickoryOughtShirt?4 I am in no copyright violation. I will be turning the page back to my edits. I have gone through the text, all is free of any sort of copyright violation. If the edit is undone, I will have to report you or any other of the violating users to the Wikipedia administration. Virgilisalive (talk) 18:27, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018[edit]

Your recent editing history at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.
I am leaving this warning formally as I've already explained it also on my talk page. Praxidicae (talk) 17:43, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Praxidicae I am in no copyright violation. I will be turning the page back to my edits. I have gone through the text, all is free of any sort of copyright violation. If the edit is undone, I will have to report you or any other of the violating users to the Wikipedia administration. Virgilisalive (talk) 18:28, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Virgilisalive, that sounds like a bad idea. Besides the copyright/close paraphrasing issue, your edits really are just blatantly promotional, and that in itself is, if one persists, a blockable offense. And if, as I think is likely, you have a conflict of interest, a block will prevent you even from improving the article within our guidelines. Please see WP:COI. Drmies (talk) 21:52, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion[edit]

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Virgilisalive reported by User:Praxidicae (Result: ). Thank you. Praxidicae (talk) 19:24, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Virgilisalive, I recommend you take seriously the warning you got at WP:AN3. Besides doing what we consider to be promotional editing, you also edit warred by breaking the WP:3RR rule. Per the rules, your account could be blocked. Admins are giving you a break because you seem to be new. If you are also resistant to all education, we may run out of patience quickly. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 02:22, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

EdJohnston, Thank you. I would let you know that I have an intent on making certain edits to the page I have been working on. All of which are without violation of copyright or promotion. IN the future, I will care to avoid paraphrasing, but certainly there was and will be no violation of promotional editing. Yours, Virgilisalive (talk) 03:07, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's good that you have a plan, but any plan that makes you the sole judge of an appropriate edit may be a little optimistic. The best idea is to propose your changes on the talk page first and wait for feedback. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 03:26, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

- - - Where is the talk page that I should I propose my suggested edits? Yours, Virgilisalive (talk) 03:29, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. EdJohnston (talk) 03:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]