User talk:Awexelbaum

Recent edits to National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change. It appears that you may have cut and pasted from a copyrighted source. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Andrew_pmk | Talk 16:19, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Andrew,
 * I work for the Task Force and a lot of the information on our page is terribly outdated. We looked at other similar organizations and they have a much better, detailed, page. I would like to update our page as they have already done. I'm only using information from property we own (such as from our website) and I have been given permission from our deputy director to use the information to update our wiki page. Please let me know how to proceed because you keep changing it back to the old page after I invest our nonprofit time and resources into changing our own public profile. Thanks, Adam
 * Thanks for your rapid response. We have a policy against editors who have potential conflicts of interest.  Another problem is that you cannot use text from your website unless the website's content is released into the public domain without a copyright.  Basically Wikipedia has a painfully large number of rules that take a while to learn.  I suggest starting by proposing changes on your organization's talk page and have other editors implement those changes.  If no editors respond or if you would like an outside opinion on our conflict of interest policy, we have a special forum for just that purpose where experienced editors discuss such matters.  People in your situation almost always get their requests implemented using one of these channels.  Thanks, Andrew327 18:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

July 2013
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Andrew327 16:33, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Awexelbaum. 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 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 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 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. Andrew327 16:47, 25 July 2013 (UTC)