User talk:JackWHawkins

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, JackWHawkins. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Australian whisky, 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 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. KH-1 (talk) 04:50, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Australian whisky article
Hi Jack. Thanks for uploading your professionally shot image of Starward whisky and placing it on the Australian whisky page. Like you, I'm keen to share Australian whisky with the world.

Just a couple of comments.

First, although you own and are entitled to license the copyright of your own photograph, someone else probably owns the copyright in the labels on any whisky bottle you might photograph. Under Wikipedia Commons rules, you really need the approval of that other copyright holder as well, to license the copyright of the label in your photograph. If you have any such approval, then you should say so on the relevant Wikimedia Commons page. Otherwise, someone might delete the image as a copyright infringing image.

I know you might find this somewhat frustrating, but Wikimedia Commons has a policy of respecting copyright holders, and as you're a professional photographer, I'm sure you'll appreciate that such respect is important. If you're interested in uploading further images in due course, you might want to consider getting around the problem by choosing images of bottles that have generic labels not subject to copyright (eg like the Nikka Whisky bottle on the Japanese whisky article).

Secondly, I have removed your name from the Wikipedia article. As that article links directly to the Wikimedia Commons page with the image on it, and as you are identified on that Wikimedia Commons page as the photographer, you are acknowledged as such and no further acknowledgment is necessary. Having your name in the Wikipedia article as well as on the Wikimedia Commons image page might be seen as self promotion, which is not something Wikipedia encourage (as a general rule, Wikipedia articles don't identify the photographers of images, unless the photographer is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article of his/her own (eg Allan Warren)).

Once again, thanks for getting involved in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I look forward to seeing other images of yours on the project. Bahnfrend (talk) 06:12, 15 May 2018 (UTC)