Hello, Nadine El-Khoury2! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 16:10, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, there were at least two problems with your recent editing at Ahmed Mater. Firstly, much of the content you added consisted of commentary and opinion, some of it clearly intended to give a favourable impression of Ahmed Mater, but a Wikipedia article is supposed to just report dispassionately and objectively what reliable sources say, without expressions of opinion or value judgements, and certainly without appearing to be intended to promote or praise the subject of the article. However, a far more serious problem was the fact that much (if not all) of the content was copied from other sources, infringing copyright. It is very rarely acceptable to post content copied from other web sites to Wikipedia. Some of the content you posted, for example, originated in an article in the The Washington Post, the terms of service of which say (among other things) "Except for content that you have posted on the Services, or unless expressly authorized by The Washington Post in writing, you are prohibited from publishing, reproducing, distributing, publishing, entering into a database, displaying, performing, modifying, creating derivative works, transmitting, or in any way exploiting any part of the Services, except that you may make use of the content for your own personal use as follows: you may make one machine readable copy and/or print copy that is limited to occasional articles of personal interest only." That does not come anywhere near to being compatible with Wikipedia's licensing terms. Consequently, the content you posted has been removed. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:39, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
