User talk:Dougster333

July 2013
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this message: The Lone Bellow was changed by Dougster333 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.863235 on 2013-07-09T17:49:45+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 17:49, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Your addition to The Lone Bellow 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. —    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 17:58, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Dougster333, you are invited to the Teahouse
Your addition to The Lone Bellow 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. Please stop adding material that is copied and pasted from the band's web site. —    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 15:23, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

The Lone Bellow
Please stop adding copyrighted material from the band's website to this article. Wikipedia has two standards at play here.
 * Please Note: This comment has several links to more detailed information, please make use of them.

First is WP:Primary sources, i.e. the band's web site should not be a main source of material for the article because it is unlikely to maintain a neutral point of view. Wikipedia requires most article content to be derived from independent reliable and verifiable sources.

And the second is WP:Copy-paste, you cannot copy and past material from any web site, even your own, and remain compliant with the Wikipedia Manual of Style and copyright policy. I will be happy to help you fix these problems and improve this article, you can reply here or on my talk page.

Finally please note, that if you are associated with this band or its record label, you should disclose this prior to editing to avoid problems with the conflict of interest policy.

—    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 15:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Album Cover Art
As regards album cover art as a copyrighted work Wikipedia's legal team has decided that fair use rationale is only satisfied if the image is used on the article for the musical work, but not for use in the article for the band itself. This applies for all album cover art used on Wikipedia. Of course if you have a free-use image of the band that you would like to upload, you are free to do so. Just be sure to add the appropriate licensing information at the time you upload the image. More information can be found in the help files presented during the upload process. Once again I would be happy to help you navigate these policies if you like. Please reply here or on my talk page.—    Bill W.     (Talk)  (Contrib)  — 17:44, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Hello, Dougster333. 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 The Lone Bellow, 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. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:24, 11 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Also, please note the following points.
 * 1) Some of the content you have added to an article seems more like a personal essay or reflection than an objective encyclopaedic account. To give just one short example, such language as "the Brooklyn-based group serendipitously willed itself into being" may or may not be effective use of figurative language in reflective writing, but it is not objective fact, and has no place in an encyclopaedia. Much of your writing is not written from a neutral point of view, and expresses opinion: for example, "strong communal spirit", "that fateful morning", "unique, eclectic sound", and "the trio’s self-titled debut disc is exuberant in its playing, welcoming in its attitude" are subjective judgements, not objective facts. At its best, your writing is a personal reflection, and at its worst it reads like an attempt to use Wikipedia as a free advertising service for promotional purposes. Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion of any sort.
 * 2) In a web site where anyone at all can create an account and claim to be anyone they choose, we cannot take the unsubstantiated word of some Wikipedia editor that they have copyright release. You have repeatedly been given links to Wikipedia's information on how to release copyright, but have not heeded them. We have procedures for doing this for good reasons, not just to be awkward. In any case, are you sure that your employers are willing to release the content of their web site for anyone in the world to re-use, modified or unmodified, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in accordance with Wikipedia's terms of use? If they are not, then the content would not be suitable for publication on Wikipedia, even if it were purged of its promotional and subjective aspects, and as long as it contains those promotional and subjective aspects it is unsuitable for inclusion in Wikipedia anyway, no matter what the copyright situation may be. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:52, 11 July 2013 (UTC)