User talk:Clafuria

PennWest Logos
Welcome to Wikipedia, Clafuria.

The PennWest logos (File:PennWest Lockup Edinboro FINAL SM.svg, File:PennWest Lockup Global Online FINAL SM.svg, etc) you recently uploaded are clearly not an 'own work', and most likely complex enough to be copyrighted. At the very least, the CC BY SA 4.0 is not an appropriate license as even if not under copyright, they were originally designed by staff at the PennWest University.--The Navigators (talk) 22:05, 22 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Navigators! I work at PennWest University in the marketing department, and I sat down with the designer of the logos and uploaded them together. Please let me know how you'd like me to verify this. Only the marketing staff has access to the SM logos. Clafuria (talk) 12:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has a Conflict of Interest policy, which among other things, requires that individuals connected to an organization, such as those employed by it, must clearly disclose that connection to the origination if editing articles related to it. Additionally work that is being done for compensation (i.e. If you are being paid to edit an article, upload files, etc. or doing editing/uploading while on the clock) you must disclose that you are being compensated. For a simple explanation of the policy, please see: Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.


 * Setting aside the Conflict of Interest for a moment, the manner in which you've uploaded those logos is most likely problematic to PennWest and PASSHE. The Creative Commons "Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International" license, which those logos were uploaded under, states that the files and logos are allowed to be used by anyone, for anything, provided they comply with the following two rules: A. attribute the source and that they share it under the same open license. (As well as following trademark laws). (For more info about the license you used, please see: Creative Commons.org - CC BY SA 4.0 License.
 * It strikes me as highly unlikely that PennWest intends to do that, considering restrictions over the usage of logos and university names at other PASSHE institutions and the pre-PennWest institutions. However, it is ultimately your institution's decision as what license you wish to use. If you have further questions on this topic, feel free to ask, or visit Commons:Licensing, which as some useful flowcharts and tables.--The Navigators (talk) 03:17, 24 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I just spoke with an administrator at the Commons (where you uploaded the logos to), and it turns out I was mistaken. The Commons doesn't have a policy prohibiting contributions where there's a conflict of interest. I wrongly assumed they had a similar policy to English Wikipedia.
 * I'm going to write a follow up message this afternoon (Fri 5/27) with instructions regarding providing verification about the logos. We have a fairly straight forward way for you to do that. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them and I'll try to answer them.--The Navigators (talk) 07:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I've left directions for what we want you to do next (the verification via VRTS) for you here: Commons:User talk:Clafuria. We'll continue discussing the logo files there.--The Navigators (talk) 00:01, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Commons: Administration Noticeboard
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Commons:Commons:Administrators noticeboard. Questions regarding files uploaded, need further guidance from a more experienced editor/administrator. Thank you.  (Reposted here from the Commons to ensure visibility to the editor.) --The Navigators (talk) 02:09, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Please see message left in section above.--The Navigators (talk) 07:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

May 2022
Hello Clafuria. 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Clafuria. 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. — Jeff G. ツ 09:44, 27 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Jeff, I work at PennWest and was given the task of uploading the logos from the marketing team. This was upon receiving notice from the Navigators that "The Commons doesn't have a policy prohibiting contributions where there's a conflict of interest. I wrongly assumed they had a similar policy to English Wikipedia." That's from the navigators. Clafuria (talk) 12:12, 27 May 2022 (UTC)