User talk:Brodeum

April 2009
It looks like you may have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia. Please do not add such material without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:32, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Copyright Information?
I am the editor for Rogers Corporation and my edits were undone based on the fact that I used something (I'm not sure what...an image is the only thing I can figure) that I don't have permission to use. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I have not used anything I do not have a right to use. What should I do from here? I would like to revert it back to my final version. The last thing I was doing was adding links into other Wiki articles for the text in my content. Any feedback would be very much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brodeum (talk • contribs) 14:42, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The majority of the information that you added was copied directly from here. You cannot copy/paste information from another web site whether you claim permission or not.  Your edits also did not maintain a neutral point of view and it appears that you are trying to promote the company.  This is not allowed.  You are welcome to add content in your own words that references available sources.  Have a look at WP:COPY for more information.  If you add the information back as it was, it will be reverted on sight.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, and by the way, you cannot edit for Rogers Corporation. See WP:COI.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Where do I go from here
Ok, I understand what you are saying. We rewrote the document I linked to specifically so we could put it on Wikipedia. We removed anything we thought was promotional. We used HP and Dow Corning as sort of a guide to what we wanted to do. We have been around for 175 years and wanted to get our history correct on the page. The information there is wrong and if I can't edit and no one from Rogers can edit it how to we make it correct? We tried to remove anything that was self promoting and remain as historical as we could. Where do I go from here? How can I rewrite something I have already written. Do you want me to remove the page from the Rogers Corporation website and remove that link as well? Brodeum (talk) 15:33, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The fact that you prepared something as a representative of the company specifically to be included in a Wikipedia article is against Wikipedia policy. You can not use Wikipedia as a tool to get information about your company disseminated. The best thing I can suggest is that you make editing suggestions on the article talk page and let others decide if the information is neutral and relevant enough for inclusion.  The company is borderline as far as company notability is concerned and the article needs reliable third party sources to confirm its notability.  You might help with suggestions on that too.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 15:43, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:11, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Signing your posts
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Response Please read my response under Copyright Infringement above. I really don't know where to go from here. I'm stuck with content that is incorrect and when I spend a week creating the proper content trying to remove anything self promoting it get's shot down. Brodeum (talk) 15:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Response I'm learning so I will start adding signatures. It is unclear to me as to how to contact the person who posted a response. Will they look at this page so they can see what my responses were? Brodeum (talk) 15:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I have your talk page on my "watchlist"; it's just a question of when I can get to it. As to how to deal with conflicts of interest, there's a link higher up on the page that will take you to a lengthy exposition on how to do that. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  19:25, 13 April 2009 (UTC)