User talk:KLearyBeClear

Hello, KLearyBeClear, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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Hello KLearyBeClear! Your additions to Draft:List of Opportunity Colleges and Universities in the United States have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license—to request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:14, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi, KLeary. Appreciate the disclosure and willingness to work within Wikipedia guideilnes on paid editing. I will go through some of your requests but just a friendly suggestion to try and keep these shorter. You posted a lot of requests in a single edit summary which could cause some editors to shy away from reviewing it as a WP:WALLOFTEXT. May I suggest doing future edits in smaller chunks? Not a requirement, just a suggestion. CNMall41 (talk) 18:49, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello CNMall41, thank you so much for that wonderful feedback. I very much appreciate it. I will certainly make sure future edits are done in smaller chunks. In the mean time, I am grateful for your willingness to go through some of my edit requests. Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer about my proposed changes. KLearyBeClear (talk) 22:39, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello @KLearyBeClear

Note: your additions to Draft:Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education were removed in whole or in part, as they appeared to include content without evidence that the source material had been released by its owner under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (eg CC BY-NC-SA content cannot be reused on Wikipedia because WP requires content that is freely reusable for any purpose.) MmeMaigret (talk) 17:47, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for this feedback. Who at Wikipedia do I reach out to to confirm this source material has been released by its owner under a suitably free and compatible copyright license? The Deputy Executive Editor of the Carnegie Classifications can help confirm what's needed for this. KLearyBeClear (talk) 21:25, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Your edit to Draft:List of Opportunity Colleges and Universities in the United States has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, KLearyBeClear. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 14:09, 10 April 2026 (UTC)