User talk:B9sketfull

February 2013
Hello, I'm Psychonaut. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Bulk Barn, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Psychonaut (talk) 22:03, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello B9sketfull, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

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. Psychonaut (talk) 08:31, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Your addition to Bulk Barn 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 article 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. Psychonaut (talk) 17:29, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi B9sketfull. I'm in receipt of your e-mail, but I'm responding here because as a rule correspondence concerning edits to Wikipedia should be discussed on the talk and user talk pages here. Your edits to Bulk Barn were removed in part because the material you were trying to add was too close to the source material—it looked to have only very minor changes from Bulk Barn's promotional material. I suggest you have a read through Close paraphrasing for a more thorough explanation of why this sort of superficial restructuring and rephrasing is problematic, and how it can be avoided. However, even if the material had been completely rewritten to avoid the copyright infringement, it still wouldn't be appropriate for Wikipedia as it reads more like advertising copy than an encyclopedia article. Encyclopedia articles have a particular style, some hallmarks of which include the use of running prose rather than point form, not directly addressing the reader, and a neutral tone which precludes puffery. Please check out our manual of style for further details. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:37, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Hello B9sketfull. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Bulk Barn, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:B9sketfull. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 11:15, 17 December 2017 (UTC)