User talk:John Ben Hall

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Hello, John Ben Hall, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
Hello John - thanks for your contributions so far.

As you seem to be editing in your professional capacity, you should probably check our Conflict of interest policy. What I'd suggest is that making simple factual additions is not going to be a problem (eg, such as your edit at Laura Trott. However, I'd encourage you to take care in making any changes that are too substantial to University of Exeter related pages or people. If in doubt, we recommend suggesting changes on an article's talk page first, so that either other editors can implement it or you can check that other people don't have an objection. Hope that helps! --Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, John Ben Hall. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Anthony Forster (political scientist), 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. As you continue to edit articles related to your workplace, please give these a read. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 01:57, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway.jpg, which you've attributed to Dave Higgleton. 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
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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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 23:53, 29 June 2019 (UTC)