Baustin28
March 2010
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May 2010
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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Lauren Conrad, you may be blocked from editing. Terrillja talk 18:47, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Copyright policies; promotional content
editHello. I have had to revert the changes you made to Nassau University Medical Center for both copyright and neutrality reasons.
The copyright reason is the most critical here. In your edits to the article in February you copied content from multiple pages on the official website into the article, including [1] and [2]. I'm afraid that your efforts to address this issue in May were not sufficient legally or in accordance with our policies. For an example of the issue, consider the following:
| What the source says | What you originally put in the article | What the article said after your changes |
|---|---|---|
| Although NuHealth is a new name in regional health care, its roots go deep into Long Island's history. What began in 1935 as Meadowbrook Hospital — a 200-bed, general hospital in then-rural East Meadow, New York — has become part of a unique health organization with multiple centers of care and a commitment to deliver excellent essential care to everyone, at every stage of life. | Although NuHealth is a new name in regional health care, its roots go deep into Long Island's history. What began in 1935 as Meadowbrook Hospital — a 200-bed, general hospital in then-rural East Meadow, New York — has become part of a unique health organization with multiple centers of care and a commitment to deliver excellent essential care to everyone, at every stage of life. | Although NuHealth is a relatively new name in regional health care on Long Island, its roots go deep into Long Island's history. What began in 1935 as Meadowbrook Hospital — a 200-bed, general hospital in then-rural East Meadow, New York — has become part of a unique health organization serving the public, with multiple centers of care and a commitment to deliver excellent essential care to everyone, at every stage of life. |
I have bolded the content that is copied exactly to make the issue easier to see. I'm afraid all you have done is add a few words here and there and drop a few. This is not sufficient to eliminate copyright problems. Unless you are able to verify license for the material, you must only add information to Wikipedia that is public domain or written in your own words, aside from brief and clearly marked quotations. (See Wikipedia:Copy-paste for more information.) This is a requirement under our Terms of Use, and as it is a legal matter it is a policy that we must enforce. Contributors who continue to copy content into Wikipedia after advisement of these policies must be blocked from contribution to help ensure that our material is legal for publication.
In May, you added more text to the article, which included the following:
| What the source says | What you put into the article |
|---|---|
| Created in partnership with the North Shore-LIJ Health System, NuHealth Cardiac Care is staffed by a team of heart specialists with the most advanced training in all aspects of cardiac care.... NuHealth Cardiac Care brings a broader array of cardiac services than ever before to Nassau University Medical Center. Whether you come to us in an emergency or are referred by your physician, you’ll have access to the kind of specialized cardiac services you used to have to go elsewhere to find, from advanced therapy for congestive heart failure to catheterization, defibrillator and pacemaker implantation. | Created in partnership with the North Shore-LIJ Health System, NuHealth Cardiac Care is staffed by a team of heart specialists with the most advanced training in all aspects of cardiac care. Providing a broader array of cardiac services than ever before to Nassau University Medical Center, the NuHealth Cardiac Care Center offers specialized cardiac services from advanced therapy for congestive heart failure to catheterization, defibrillator and pacemaker implantation. |
Once again, I have bolded to emphasize where content is directly duplicated. After having read the above, Wikipedia:Copy-paste and the linked pages, I'm sure you will understand why we cannot accept this, from a copyright standpoint.
But beyond that we cannot accept this material because it is not neutral. We have three core content policies on Wikipedia - Verifiability and No original research work together to ensure that material is properly cited and can be fact-checked to high quality sources that in most cases are not connected to the subjects of the article, while Neutral point of view ensures that we do not bring our biases into the article - either for or against our subjects - but instead accurately summarizes what uninvolved sources have to say about them. We simply cannot say things like this: "It also has a strong educational commitment, and has provided thousands of young physicians, nurses and other health care professionals with the opportunity to begin their careers working alongside experienced, talented professionals in a high-volume, fast-paced medical center." Even if it is absolutely true that the medical center employs experienced and talented professionals, that is a subjective opinion that must be attributed to an acceptable source - again, not the center itself. Obviously, the center is going to think highly of its staff. That's entirely appropriate - but that's not what we're here for. :)
If you are in any way connected to the health center, or if you are contracted by them to update their page, please be sure you read through our conflict of interest guidelines. They can help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls that people encounter when working on articles that are closely connected to them, professionally or personally.
If you have any questions about any of this, you are welcome to come by my talk page. We also have a "Tea House" that is engineered to create a friendly environment for newcomers who need assistance. While you have been around for a while, I'm sure they would welcome you, as your participation has been pretty light. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)