User talk:CarmeRoyo

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia

Respect copyrights – do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites.
Maintain a neutral point of view – this is one of Wikipedia's core policies.
Take particular care while adding biographical material about a living person to any Wikipedia page and follow Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons policy. Particularly, controversial and negative statements should be referenced with multiple reliable sources.
No edit warring or sock puppetry.
If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to do so.
Do not add troublesome content to any article, such as: copyrighted text, libel, advertising or promotional messages, and text that is not related to an article's subject. Deliberately adding such content or otherwise editing articles maliciously is considered vandalism; doing so will result in your account or IP being blocked from editing.
Do not use talk pages as discussion or forum pages as Wikipedia is not a forum.

The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome!

EUCEN[edit]

This is an automated message from MadmanBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of EUCEN, and it appears to include material copied directly from http://www.perform.unige.it/eucen/organizers.html.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. The article will be reviewed to determine if there are any copyright issues.

If substantial content is duplicated and it is not public domain or available under a compatible license, it will be deleted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. You may use such publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.) MadmanBot (talk) 14:08, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, CarmeRoyo. You have new messages at Moonriddengirl's talk page.
Message added 14:06, 10 May 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

May 2013[edit]

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

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. Theroadislong (talk) 14:08, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI[edit]

Moonriddengirl does not get paid for all the work she does related to copyright. She is a volunteer. Although she happens to be employed by WMF, her work on Wikipedia is a volunteer effort.

That said, I can understand why you see the sequence as surreal.

It is not uncommon that someone writes some text somewhere, this has the copyright to it, and then decides to sue the same text here. They are very surprised when we challenge them. However, we cannot easily distinguish between:

A. A person writes some text, then decides to sign up as a Wikipedia editor and use the same text, and
B. An editor wants to use some text on a topic, and finds text somewhere on the internet and uses it

B is a violation. It is not trivial to distinguish the two cases, and in fact, A is not automatically acceptable. Suppose, for example, that you owned copyright to some words, and wanted to use those words on Wikipedia, and missed the fact that using them here makes them freely licensed? I've seen that happen inadvertently. To protect you from that possibility, we want to get confirmation that you, the Wikipedia editor, are the same person as the person that wrote the copyrighted text AND you are willing to license it, or, we want you to license the text on the source so that it can be used.

If you take a glance at WP:CP you will see that every day we have dozens of cases of someone taking someone else's words inappropriately. We want to protect the owners of the copyright. On some occasions, this means we temporarily object to someone using their own words, but we have a process to identify those situations. It may seem surreal, because you know you are the same as the person that wrote the original words, but we do not, and are taking care for your protection.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 17:27, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I felt frustrated because I do not have time for more (I thought it was going to be an easier and problem-free task). But I understand your comments and your security procedures. So, I leave it on the Wikipedia editors' hands. If the page must be deleted, whoever takes that final decision, please proceed. Thanks again for the explanation and the time all of you have had with me. CarmeRoyo (talk) 15:32, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]