User talk:James Wesley, Rawles

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Hello, James Wesley, Rawles, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to James Wesley Rawles. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, James Wesley, Rawles. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article James Wesley Rawles, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Fyddlestix (talk) 12:28, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi James, just want to note that I posted the above notice out of an abundance of caution. There's nothing that says you can't edit your own articles as long as your edits aren't biased, and I do not see anything wrong with your edits - so feel free to carry on as before, it's just standard to let people know the "conflict of interest" policies when they edit articles where they may have a COI. Fyddlestix (talk) 12:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:Photo of James Wesely, Rawles.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Photo of James Wesely, Rawles.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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Clarification has been added at the page where that photo is housed (https://survivalblog.com/media/ ) The note at the top of that page now clearly states: All of these files are intended for free use in book catalogs, book reviews, wiki pages, et cetera. They also qualify as “free” images per Wikipedia:Non-free_content)"

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "James Wesley, Rawles", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because James Wesley Rawles. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. usernames which imply the editor is a specific identifiable person, such as James Wesley Rawles, are not really allowed per WP:IMPERSONATE, except in the case when the name is your real name. Even in such cases, however, the account may be temporarily blocked as a precaution to pervent any damaging impersonation. If your username is your real name, you should consider sending an email to Wikipedia OTRS declaring such a thing so that your identity can be verified by an OTRS volunteer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:56, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That is my name, with the correct comma. If you look at the covers and title pages of any of my books, you will see the same comma. The title of the Wikipedia bio page was originally and correctly "James Wesley, Rawles", but some Wiki Editor later incorrectly changed it. 98.97.32.49 (talk) 13:54, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above notification was posted more than five years ago and it's not clear why you're responding to it now. Anyway, the issue with your username has (had) nothing to do with a comma being used. It, however, has (had) everything to do with the fact that you're (apparently) using your real name as your username and there also (apparently) is a Wikipedia article written about you under that same name. You can use your real name as your username (as explained here), but in some cases such an account may be soft-blocked as a prevention against possible damaging impersonation. Since more than five years have passed since the notification was posted and since you haven't been using this account to edit Wikipedia during that time, nothing more needed to be done and your account was just left alone. If, however, you plan on resuming Wikipedia editing using this account (particularly if you try to edit James Wesley Rawles or to edit/create other content related to you on Wikipedia), then that could lead to problems. If that's your intent, you might want to consider emailing the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS" is the old name) and enquiring about getting your Wikipedia account verified. Having your account verified won't gain you and additional editing privileges or any form of editorial control over content written about you on Wikipedia (you're going to still be expected to follow Wikipedia:Conflict of interest), but it will let others (reasonably) know that you are the person in control of this account and that it's not someone pretending to be you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:18, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

File:Signature of James Wesley, Rawles.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Signature of James Wesley, Rawles.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:03, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]