Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Control copyright icon Hello Lamorte85, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Global Migration Group has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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. — Diannaa (talk) 17:53, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lamorte85 (talk) 12:52, 24 June 2016 (UTC)Hey Diana, nice meeting you. I am the head of social media here at IOM and we are the owners of the wikipedia page. Could we please edit the page? we need major changes to the current description. Best, Luca Lamorte[reply]

Please be aware you do not own any Wikipedia article. I am pinging @Diannaa: so that they can explain this issue further. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 13:04, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your interest in working on this article. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see this policy Wikipedia:Copyrights which explains how it works. So if you wish to add copyrighted content to the article, the proper licenses and permissions will have to be in place. Please see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how that would be done. Or, you could reword the material so that it does not copy what is already available online.

A second problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice to that effect on their user page or talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 13:13, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

June 2016[edit]

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without verifying permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted.

Please take this opportunity to be sure you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: ((unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~)).  — Diannaa (talk) 00:30, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]