User talk:Elitebasketball23

October 2021
Hello, I'm Fyrael. I noticed that you recently removed content from Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975) without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.   &#32;-- Fyrael (talk) 21:55, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

January 2022
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975), did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. You removed an image, you added unsourced material, and you incorrectly called this WP:MINOR. Meters (talk) 20:59, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Your edit to Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. And some of it was a verbatim copy from a website Meters (talk) 21:00, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

June 2022
Hello, I'm Serols. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Serols (talk) 13:06, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975), without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you would like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. P HANTOM T ECH (talk) 13:18, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello Elitebasketball23. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975), 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:Elitebasketball23. 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. ''Since you are asserting to have taken a headshot of Henderson, it follows that you are in his employ or otherwise in a professional relationship with him. You must disclose your conflict of interest, whether you are paid or not, and you must disclose who is paying you, if you are paid to edit Henderson's article.'' —C.Fred (talk) 13:25, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I am not being paid to edit the page. I am making edits removing a mugshot at the living person's request. A specific user continues to upload the mugshot even though I have made attempts to replace the image with a more tasteful and less harmful one. Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:27, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * And when and how did you take that "more tasteful and less harmful" picture? —C.Fred (talk) 13:28, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * A coaching headshot is more tasteful and less harmful to the living person than a mugshot picture Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:31, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Probably but if a mugshot is the only free (and recent) image we have, then that will be what is used, especially if the person is particularly notable for their crime. PRAXIDICAE🌈 13:31, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * @Elitebasketball23 C.Fred asked you specifically how you took that photo. PRAXIDICAE🌈 13:32, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I was sent the photo from the living person who took it during a photo shoot. Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, then, it's not your own work, is it? And I suggest you cease editing the article and make your requests on the article talk page per WP:COI. PRAXIDICAE🌈 13:34, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Okay Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:34, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * (ec) The person who took the photo(not you or even the subject) must be the one to release it to Wikipedia. It is true that a non-mugshot photo would be preferable, but it will be used if that is the only free image available. I suggest that you take an image of the person with your camera and upload it. 331dot (talk) 13:34, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

The older photo is not "harmful," as there is no connection being made to the 2014 arrest. And I added content that he was found not guilty. David notMD (talk) 13:36, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I actually just came back to say that I think the mugshot should be removed because it's given too much weight for the charges/non-conviction but the content shouldn't be removed. PRAXIDICAE🌈 13:38, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, could you upload this picture https://cbubucs.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/cedric-henderson/453 Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:44, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * No because it's not compatibly licensed. PRAXIDICAE🌈 13:48, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Okay, thank you anyways! Elitebasketball23 (talk) 13:49, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Turns out the mugshot is copyright protected, so removed from article and about to be removed from Commons. David notMD (talk) 13:58, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * An independent editor removed the entire "Legal troubles" section, given that in the end he was found not guilty. David notMD (talk) 14:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * It was me - I think this was undue and pretty irrelevant because it received no coverage and was a bit of a nothingburger. PRAXIDICAE🌈 14:03, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

May 2023
You have been indefinitely blocked from editing Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975). You are free to make well-referenced, neutral Edit requests at Talk: Cedric Henderson (basketball, born 1975). Please read the Guide to appealing blocks. Cullen328 (talk) 21:08, 1 May 2023 (UTC)