User talk:Castilloba

Your submission at Articles for creation: Guillaume Dulude (March 14)
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331dot (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024
Hello Castilloba. 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 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 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:Castilloba. 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, do not edit further until you answer this message. ''The image of this person seems to be professionally taken, but you claimed it as your own personal work. Please clarify.'' 331dot (talk) 17:00, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * Thank you for the quick feedback.
 * I can assure you that I am absolutely not being paid for this article. This is not a case of conflit of interest as I am not receiving any compensation whatsoever for writing this paper.
 * The image provided is indeed professionally taken by photographer Avril Franco, but I own the rights to it, hence why I claimed it as my own. I understand I cannot edit further this article but please do ;et me know if I should modify to mention the photographer's name.
 * Thank you very much for the work you do and for being quickly responsive.
 * Wishing you a lovely day, Castilloba (talk) 17:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * You will need to modify it to clarify that you own the copyright to it and are releasing it on that basis, instead of claiming it as your own personal work. You can inquire about that on Commons.
 * What exactly is your relatioship with Mr. Dulude? You may continue to edit the draft, but will need to disclose your relationship.  Note that "paid editing" is not limited to specific payment for edits, but includes any form of paid relationship(such as being employed by him as his agent/representative). 331dot (talk) 17:46, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Thank you very much for the tips, I appreciate you taking the time. This will help me greatly with the writing of this article.
 * I can confirm that I am not at all doing this as a "paid editing", and I am not getting any sort of compensation for writing this paper.
 * I will edit the draft and clarify that the photo credits belong to photographer Avril Franco.
 * Where exactly should I disclose my relationship towards Mr. Dulude? Here as a reply in this conversation? Or somewhere else?
 * I will also review and perhaps reduce the information on this article since it seems like a lot of it can't really be "backed up" by sources (it's information regarding his personal life, example his early life). I suppose and shorter and more concise draft would be a better way to start this paper? Castilloba (talk) 00:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Please describe the general nature of your relationship here, I can then advise you what, if any further steps need to be taken.
 * Any article about Mr. Dulude should summarize what independent reliable sources say about him- if you have no verifiable source for a piece of information, it can't be on Wikipedia. Personal knowledge is not acceptable. Sourcing requirements for biographies of living people (often abbreviated to "BLPs") is stricter, see policy in that area. 331dot (talk) 00:33, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks again for the tips. I will edit the article and remove every piece of information that is not verifiable. Some information I can back up with sources such as published newspaper articles, but these are all in French (Mr. Dulude is originally from Québec, Canada). Is that acceptable? Or since the article is in English, the sources cited must be in English as well?
 * I am thinking I such perhaps write this paper in French instead...
 * As for my relationship with Mr. Dulude, I have no actual personal relation with him. I attended one of his lectures at University about 10 years ago and I have been following him ever since on all of its social media platforms, watching the documentaries and interviews he made, and his appearances on the radio shows, podcasts and TV shows. I read his book and attended most of his conferences in the last couple of years. I've seen how his knowledge and the content he shares help people, and when he announced that he was launching his social media platforms in English a few weeks ago, I tough a Wikipedia page would be great and helpful. So I would say I am in no relationship per say with him, I just know who he is because of what he does.
 * Do let me know if you require more information or if further actions should be taken to ensure this is not a case of conflict of interest.
 * Thank you Castilloba (talk) 16:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * So you own the rights to a photo taken by someone else of someone that you don't know but follow? I'm just trying to understand. 331dot (talk) 17:29, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I messaged Mr. Dulude's team, letting them know I wanted to write a Wikipedia article and asking them if I could use a picture. They agreed and sent me the photo I am trying to use. The photographer (Avril Franco) was also informed. So the company of Mr. Dulude gave me the rights to use this picture. I am not sure if this is clear but so the photo was taken by photographer Avril Franco for Mr. Dulude, and Mr. Dulude agreed to give me access and right of use of the picture, knowing I would use it for the creation of a Wikipedia article. Castilloba (talk) 18:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I think I get it now. Typically when asking for a photo the owner just releases it with a copyright appropriate for Wikipedia, it's rare to turn over the copyright to a Wikipedia editor personally. I think that's where I got confused as owning a copyright typically indicates a deeper connection than just asking for a photo. Thanks for bearing with me. 331dot (talk) 19:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)