User talk:Itsamike

Your submission at Articles for creation: Office seeker, Disappointed (November 25)
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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Office seeker, Disappointed


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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Itsamike. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mike Pollock, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Confirming your identity
Hi Mike. Would you mind giving a quick read to WP:REALNAME and sending an email as described there to confirm your identity? Alternatively, a tweet would be appropriate - whatever works best for you. When editors associate their usernames with a specific well-known person, we like to have confirmation to prevent you from being impersonated. I completely believe that you are who you say you are, but I'm sure you understand that we try our best to ensure you aren't impersonated by an enthusiastic fan or overly-harsh critic on Wikipedia. Thanks! ~ Rob 13 Talk 23:43, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

[Per your request] Itsamike (talk) 00:07, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for being understanding! By the way, I thought of something you might be interested in. While your article was deleted, I noticed that Doctor Eggman doesn't have any picture available in the "Voice actor portrayal" section. Do you happen to have any pictures of you recording lines for the games or show? If so, you might be interested in reading through Requesting copyright permission. There's a bunch of copyright/licensing mumbo-jumbo, but the short of it is that the copyright holder (whoever took the picture) could either release the photo into the public domain or make it available under certain free licenses such as CC-BY-SA, which allow reuse by Wikipedia and anyone else so long as we attribute the photo to its author and share it under a similar license ourselves. This would allow us to include the photo of you recording lines in the article. It's something to point your friends to over a beer without the possible negatives of having your own article. If you're interested and have such a picture, let me know, and I'll be happy to walk you through the steps. ~ Rob 13 Talk 00:44, 12 July 2016 (UTC)


 * That is interesting, but the realist in me would point out that a picture of me alone in a studio could be me recording anything. However, there's a big Sonic anniversary event coming up next week which I and some castmates could be attending (nothing's been announced as of this edit). If we're there, I can most likely get SEGA to allow re-use of a group shot with several of us doing what we do, or at least appearing en masse on a stage because we are who are. That could be used as is, or cropped to feature me, as appropriate. I'll see what I can arrange. Thanks for the germ of an idea! Itsamike (talk) 13:32, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Such an image might be useful in many articles, actually. That would be great! Unless it's an issue of not burning bridges with Sega or them disallowing photography at the event, you don't need their permission for the copyright; just whoever takes the picture. If you had a family member snap a quick photo from the audience when you were all on stage, for instance, just that family member's permission would be sufficient. There are steps we'd have to go through to verify that permission, but they're fairly easy hurdles to jump over (a quick email conversation between the photographer and a volunteer staffing a permissions-related email) and we can worry about those once you have a picture. Have fun at the event! ~ Rob 13 Talk 18:04, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. With that thought in mind, there are these pics from last month's Twitter Takeover, including one of me recording with Roger Craig Smith/Sonic. Ayzenberg is a PR firm, so they're in the business of allowing re-use, and I got specific reuse permission via email, but what's the best way to convince you that they're available for re-use? Itsamike (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)