User talk:EPVDB

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this adds your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, visit The Teahouse, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  14:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg and others
You uploaded, File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg and other images, with a copyright note.

Unless there's some record of the permission given, (or license granted), it's harder to confirm if any given permission is genuine. Wikipedia in circumstance like this, generally prefers that the permission and license grant is explicitly proven at the time of upload, and recorded in the OTRS permission queue.

Please read Requesting copyright permission, which advises on how to confirm permissions, and Donating copyrighted materials which explains how to donate materials which you have the copyright for.

Apologies for what may seem like an obvious request, but Wikipedia takes copyright seriously, and likes to know it can use media that was uploaded in good faith. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:56, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:1987 God-is-overal ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:1987 God-is-overal ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 23:44, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The above also applies to File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg. — Marchjuly (talk) 23:47, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for File:2008 Philippe Vandenberg No title ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tiff
Thanks for uploading File:2008 Philippe Vandenberg No title ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tiff. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time after the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like PD-self (to release all rights), (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: Once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 17:45, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:1987 God-is-overal ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:1987 God-is-overal ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 19:24, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 19:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:2004 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif
Thanks for uploading File:2004 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 19:57, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:1994-1995 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif
Thanks for uploading File:1994-1995 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 19:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:1996-1997 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif
Thanks for uploading File:1996-1997 Philippe-Vandenberg No-title©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:1989 Philippe-Vandenberg Hell-Eva-Darling©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif
Thanks for uploading File:1989 Philippe-Vandenberg Hell-Eva-Darling©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tif. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 20:16, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Your file uploads
Hi EPVDB. As you can probably tell from the various notifications added to your user talk page, there are some issues with the files you've been uploading. Bascially, you cannot upload someone else's copyright work to Wikipedia under a free license without providing some kind of verifiable proof that they have given their clear and unambiguous consent to do so. It's not sufficient for Wikipedia's purposes for the original copyright holder to give you permission (verbally or written) to upload the file or to give permission Wikipedia to host the file; they essentially need to agree in adavance to allow anyone anywhere in the world to download the file at anytime for pretty much any purpose, including commercial use and derivative use. Moreover, once a file is released under such a license, it cannot be canceled after the fact if the original copyright holder has a change of heart. This is why Wikipedia requires a verification of the original copyright holders intent, and also why file uploads which cannot be verified to have received original copyright holder permission are deleted per WP:F11.There are a few ways in which copyright holder permission can be verified (as explained in c:Commons:OTRS), but the most common seem to be to (1) provide a link to a website operated by the original copyright holder which shows that the file has been released under a free license accepted by Wikipedia, or (2) to have the original copyright holder send a permissions email to Wikimedia OTRS which clearly states they understand and agree to release the file under the terms of a free license accepted by Wikipedia. Simply adding a statement of intent to the file's page or a copyright disclaimer is not going to be enough. If you have any questions about this, you can ask them below or at WP:MCQ. If you notice that one of your file uploads has been deleted, then it was probably done so for a good reason. If you not sure why, you can always quick on the file's page (deleted file pages are displayed as red links) and look which administrator deleted the file and why they deleted it. You can then post a message on the deleting administrator's user talk page as for further clarification if you want. The thing not to do is simply re-upload the same problem with the same issues because it will only be deleted again. Continuing to do stuff like this is going to eventually be seen as disruptive and may lead to an administrator stepping in and taking action as needed. A deleted file is not really gone forever, but rather only hidden from public view. A deleted file can be restored by an administrator at a later date if necessary once the issues which led to the file's deletion have been sorted out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:35, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Philippe Vandenberg
Hi again EPVDB. Pretty much every edit you have made on Wikipedia has been related to Philippe Vandenberg. Your very first edit was to create a Wikipedia article about him, and almost every edit since then has been to add more content to the article. There's nothing wrong with focusing on a single article or genre of articles per se, but it does kind of give the impression that there might be some connection between you and Vandenberg. If you are connected to Vandenberg or anyone/anything associated with him, such as his state, then there's a good chance the Wikipedia would consider you to have a conflict of interest with respect to anything written about him on Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't expressly prohibit conflict of interest editing, but it does highly discourage it because it can sometimes lead to some serious problems.So, if you have such a conflict of interest (COI), I strongly suggest that you take a close look at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide and try to follow that guideline as closely as possible. This is especially important in you are being paid or otherwise compensated for the edits you are making to the article. If you do, by chance, have a COI, there's no need to panic because there are plenty of editors who do and are able to contribute positively to Wikipedia by following the aforementioned guidelines. The best thing to do is to be as upfront as possible and not try to hope to sneak by unnoticed since that will only make matters worse if and when you start having problems with other editors.Now, if none of this pertains to you, then you might want to take a look at them anyways because they also contain information which can even be helpful to non-COI editors; you might also want to try editing some other articles so that your contribution history doesn't appear to be so slanted towards Vandenberg. Expanding your Wikipedia horizons a bit will expose you to different types of edits and different ways relevant policies and guidelines are applied, and it will also help Wikipedia out as well since there are currenlty more that 6,000,000 articles and pretty much all of them can be improved in some way. Please understand that this post is not an accustation of wrongdoing; it's only meant to provide some guidance which might apply to your situation. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:53, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

question
In general, when we have an image with a particular name, we might upload a new version on top of the old version to reflect minor changes, such as revised cropping, removal of artifacts, cleaning up or other changes in which it is typically obvious that the new version is modified version of the original image.

As noted on, this image:

File:2002 PORT Philippe-Vandenberg©Picture-Julien-Vandevelde.jpg

Involves the replacement of some painting with a photograph of an individual, and is not remotely the type of situation in which we normally upload one image over another.

I think it would've been better to upload the photograph with different name. One complication with uploading unrelated images on top of one another is that we normally have one file description page with the nation about the licensing, and having two unrelated images complicates the situation.

Is there some reason you did it this way that I'm missing?-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:04, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Removing image related templates from Philippe Vandenberg
While I can understand the desire to want to remove the deletable image-caption templates added to the files you uploaded and added to Philippe Vandenberg, doing so will not prevent the concerned files from being deleted. The only way to do such a thing (as explained above in ) will be for the licensing of each file to be properly verified. Without this verification, the files will be deleted and continue to be deleted each time they are re-uploaded with the same issue.

Moreover, removing the templates only it makes it more difficult for others to be aware of the issues with the corresponding files, which means someone who might be able to help might not be aware of the problems. These are just notification templates intended to categorize the files as needing attention so that others are made aware of the problem. If the files are ultimately deleted, then the syntax and caption will need to be removed according since there will be nothing left but a WP:REDLINK where the file was displayed. The template will make it easier for other editors and WP:BOTs who cleanup articles after files are deleted to know that Vandenberg article may need some similar cleanup as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:23, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:2008 Philippe Vandenberg No title ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tiff
Thanks for uploading File:2008 Philippe Vandenberg No title ©Estate-Philippe-Vandenberg.tiff. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Philippe Vandenberg Foundation


A tag has been placed on Philippe Vandenberg Foundation, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Business for more information.
 * It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of https://philippevandenberg.be/foundation/about/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. However, even if you use one of these processes to release copyrighted material to Wikipedia, it still needs to comply with the other policies and guidelines to be eligible for inclusion. If you would like any assistance with this, you can ask a question at the help desk.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Praxidicae (talk) 15:29, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Philippe Vandenberg


A tag has been placed on Philippe Vandenberg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://philippevandenberg.be/about-the-artist/biography/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Praxidicae (talk) 15:31, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, EPVDB. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Praxidicae (talk) 15:33, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

October 2018
Hello, EPVDB. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but Philippe Vandenberg Foundation has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Identifying blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD give the appearance of an editor violating Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you. Please read FAQ/Organizations.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are  unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. '''That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. ''' Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources. Template:cite has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there.

If you want to try again, please use the Article Wizard or articles for creation to guide you through the creation process. The new user tutorial can help you avoid future problems.

You may find this tool useful: Google custom search Don't feel discouraged. My first attempts at creating articles were deleted too.


 * There is more information at Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 15:34, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, EPVDB. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but Philippe Vandenberg Foundation has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Identifying blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD give the appearance of an editor violating Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you. Please read FAQ/Organizations.

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 * There is more information at Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 15:35, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, EPVDB. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia. I'm sorry, but Philippe Vandenberg has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD. Wikipedia is the world's largest free content encyclopedia. As such, it cannot contain content copyrighted elsewhere. Such content must be completely rewritten and reformatted from scratch. Content published elsewhere copied into Wikipedia must state that it is public domain, licensed under the GFDL, or a creative commons license. That's the simple version. WP:copyright is a vastly complex issue, but if you keep to what I've written you are unlikely to run afoul.

Content copied and pasted from a subject's web page is generally unhelpful. It is generally written in a promotional tone and is not independent of the subject. All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dloh cier ekim  (talk) 15:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you for pointing me on my errors. With the pages I created I did not intend to harm any copyrights WP:CSD, nor to solely promote the artist or the organisation WP:CSD. I indeed work for the Philippe Vandenberg Foundation, a cultural organisation founded to support the oeuvre of the artist Philippe Vandenberg, and as a researcher I try to conduct my research objectively. Yet, I also understand the above mentioned objections to the pages I created.

I went trough all the usefull information posted here, thank you. As someone new I hope to interpret everything correctly. First, I want to emphasize that we are a cultural organisation, conducting art historical research in dialogue with scholars and the Ghent University. The results of these efforts we hope to share and we would love others to contribute to it. So, concerning the conflict of interests, I wondered if my articles could be interpreted to be of the hand of a cultural institution WP:CURATOR and if this would make any difference? Another question concerns the copyright claim. The texts I used for the Wikipedia page were written by me. Might it therefore be interpreted as a self-citation WP:SELFCITE or does this not suffice to be accepted?

It would be very helpful if you could advice me on these topics and learn me how I could improve the articles I created. Thank you very much in advance. EPVDB (talk) 19:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)