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Happy editing! 331dot (talk) 07:10, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

July 2022[edit]

Hello Wevaflava. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Wevaflava. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wevaflava|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 07:10, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You identified the image you placed in the Darin Burns article as your own work, but it appears professionally taken. If you indeed took the image(as in you were the one holding the camera), please clarify. 331dot (talk) 07:12, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No I am not doing these edits for money or work, I am a good friend of Darin and wanted to just help him out, as for the picture I asked Darin for one and he provided the one I posted , I just asked and he confirms full ownership of the picture as well.

Thanks Wevaflava (talk) 14:24, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your answer. It would be unusual for the subject of an image to own the copyright to it; typically it is held by the photographer. I would note that the image page currently says the image is your own work, and here you say it isn't. What will likely need to happen is that the image will need to be deleted from commons(since commons only hosts "free" images) and Mr. Burns, if he owns the image, should be the one to upload it. He will need to release it under a license compatible with Wikipedia's, which allows for reuse for any purpose,(including commercial) so he should understand what that means(potentially someone could take the image and sell copies and he would not be entitled to a penny) 331dot (talk) 17:15, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Wevaflava! Your additions to Darin Burns 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, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 13:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all , honestly I am not sure why changes I hadn't done have even been removed. This was never intended to copyright infringe or anything , simply helpin gmy friend

Darin. To make things easier I have shared all of this with him and he is going to create an account and do the changes himself. He also showed me 2 photos he will use that were taken from his own personal cell phone. Any information added will be followed by more references as well. Is this ok? its simpy just an update of his information thats all, nothing illigal trying to go on here, just to reassure you.

Thanks again. Wevaflava (talk) 19:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If he wants to upload a selfie that he took, that should work. Both you and him should propose edits as edit requests on the talk page(click for instructions). He may be asked to confirm his identity as a guard against impersonation per WP:REALNAME. 331dot (talk) 20:07, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for the information, could I ask that yhe page be restored to what it was before I made any changes? It seems too much was removed and a recent edit was also done that broke the infobox now it shows code. Could you please help restore it to looking normal.

Thanks im traveling Wevaflava (talk) 00:26, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've reversed the edit that "broke" the infobox. 331dot (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]