User talk:Gbelgraver


 * Hi Gbelgraver. It is typically not acceptable to copy material directly from other websites when submitting an article. I have tagged Macula Risk as a copyright violation. Please rewrite the article in your own words at User:Gbelgraver/Macula Risk and ask someone to move it to Macula Risk once the copyrighted material has been deleted. - 194.60.106.38 (talk) 06:49, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I forgot to log in on my previous edit. Here is the official templated notice.

Copyright problem: Macula Risk
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Macula Risk, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.macularisk.com/, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:


 * If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Macula Risk and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Macula Risk, in your email. See Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
 * If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0, or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Macula Risk with a link to where we can find that note.
 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Macula Risk. See Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at [ this temporary page]. Leave a note at Talk:Macula Risk saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Mgm|(talk) 20:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea how to correct the non-issue that has been raised that blocks this page. The explanataions/tools do not seem to work for a regular plebe like myself, so if anyone can help me (in simple English - i.e. the kind that a guy with 3 graduate degrees in the bio-sciences) can understand and give me SIMPLE instructions of what I need to do to get it fixed- please do so

Gbelgraver (talk) 17:29, 19 May 2011 (UTC)Gerry

Conflict of interest
Hello Gbelgraver. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Macula Risk, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:17, 20 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I moved your request from Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard to the main noticeboard and it has been answered. The section will be moved to an archive in only a day or two. I'll try to remember to post an archive link here when that happens. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:38, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Archived at Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive698 -- John of Reading (talk) 06:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

May 2011
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for spamming or advertising. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Sandstein  13:58, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

To summarize the advice various people have given you: Wikipedia is not a forum for promoting your product. You may not create a Wikipedia article about your own product copy-pasted from your corporate website, because by doing so you enter into conflict with our rules about conflict of interest, copyright, neutrality and probably also notability. Because you continue to disregard the advice you have been given and indicate that you want to continue writing about your own product, you are blocked from editing.  Sandstein  14:05, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

??

I am trying to provide information about a commercially available product, very similar to the information I see posted on your site about hundreds of commercially available pharmaceuticals.

Once again- please point out the elements that are promotional. I have posted information about a commercially available product.

The text was not copy-pasted from a corporate website, it was condensed and redacted - you clearly have not done any homework on the actual content and continue to persist in arbitrary behaviour that i find deeply offensive. Apparently your English is not up to speed. I have asked MULTIPLE times to have promotional text pointed out to me. Can you please do so?

I have read your guidelines on COI, C and NPOV. Please point out to me the specific transgressions, as opposed to some kind of sweeping general statement. You are not a service to Wikipedia in my eyes, with your behaviour.


 * Since you are right that we have a record of the text being properly licenced, I have undeleted the article and submitted it to a normal deletion discussion (see below). Your account remains blocked because you still give no indication that you want to write about anything else but your own product. If you wish to appeal this block, the instructions for doing so can be found above.  Sandstein   18:26, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Macula Risk for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Macula Risk is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Macula Risk until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.  Sandstein  18:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)