User talk:ADN304

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, ADN304. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. gobonobo + c 05:22, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Request edit
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Reason for the change: Changes to company mesaging and information

References supporting change: https://www.racv.com.au/?&cmpid=brand:sem&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsdKbBhDHARIsANJ6-jftpYsJy5CjUIgSzuH5ePGL3RDkdkne08UJG6im8-jr2bp_lMBF6pkaAgnREALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds ADN304 (talk) 23:02, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
Hello ADN304! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted material from other websites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv.html, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate your contributions, copying content from other websites is unlawful and against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are likely to lose their editing privileges.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! gobonobo + c 03:59, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
I am the authorised offcer of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria which is the owner of all the content in the requested edits. I will send an email to [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org permissions-enwikimedia.org] to confirm this. ADN304 (talk) 04:37, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Revert changes
Hi Wikipedia, After discussions with your editor Alfred Neumann we have removed all links in the 'Services' and 'RACV Clubs & Resorts' sections to the RACV website ADN304 (talk) 23:16, 20 November 2022 (UTC)


 * We? Wikipedia accounts are not to be shared --  Deepfriedokra (talk) 03:17, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 'We' being Alfred you editor & I ADN304 (talk) 04:24, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 05:54, 21 November 2022 (UTC)


 * As the issue been resolved? Alfred Neuman? This Alfred E. Neuman? Adakiko (talk) 06:00, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ha, ha, ha! Not that one, but I am sure he gets that a lot! If you have an email address I can send you the correspondence that Alfred and I have shared via the Permissions  email address clearing up the copyright and some content issues. How do we go about having the Copyright issue removed once we have ascertained my approval to publish copyright material on behalf of RACV? ADN304 (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Please do not remove the copyvio/core template from articles, as you did with Royal Automobile Club of Victoria. Your action has been reverted. For legal reasons, we cannot accept non-free text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted, and removing copyright notices will not help your case. You can properly contest the deletion at Copyright problems. If you are the owner of the material, you may release the material under the Creative Commons and GFDL licenses, as detailed at WP:IOWN. Alternatively, you are welcome to create a draft in your own words at Talk:Royal Automobile Club of Victoria/Temp. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators and/or removers of the copyright notice templates will be blocked from editing. gobonobo + c 03:37, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Royal Automobile Club of Victoria
Hello ADN304! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted material from other websites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/corporate-governance/our-heritage.html, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate your contributions, copying content from other websites is unlawful and against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are likely to lose their editing privileges.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:

It may also be necessary for the text to be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
 * Have the author release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC BY-SA 3.0) by leaving a message explaining the details at Talk:Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and send an email with confirmation of permission to "[mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org ]". Make sure they quote the exact page name, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, in their email. See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If you hold the copyright to the work: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to [mailto:permissions-en@wikimedia.org ] or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Royal Automobile Club of Victoria. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.
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Otherwise, you may rewrite this article from scratch. If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Royal Automobile Club of Victoria saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved.

Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! gobonobo + c 03:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

November 2022
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain pages (Royal Automobile Club of Victoria) for disruptive editing, edit warring at Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, and repeatedly adding promotional content copied directly from RACV's website. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. DanCherek (talk) 05:12, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * ADN304 (talk) 05:18, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 23)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:ADN304/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=User:ADN304/sandbox Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DoubleGrazing&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=User:ADN304/sandbox reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:49, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * It is poossible to apply for permission to publish copyright material on Wikipedia and the process is described here: Requesting copyright permission
 * I have made an application on behalf of RACV to publish content from their website.
 * Can you please remove the block so that I can ensure the contemt on their site is correct, otherewise it will contain outdated and incorrect information? ADN304 (talk) 02:26, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:ADN304/sandbox


A tag has been placed on User:ADN304/sandbox, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.
 * It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/corporate-governance/our-heritage.html. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:50, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://www.racv.com.au/about-racv/corporate-governance/our-heritage.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, provided it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:10, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

is closed. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 03:15, 5 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Can you provide me with any information about why my request has been closed? ADN304 (talk) 03:33, 5 December 2022 (UTC)