User talk:Johnnymaktub9799

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Hi, Johnnymaktub9799. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Johnny Ma, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Johnny Ma
Firstly, please familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest rules. The article does not exist as a venue for you to write about yourself, or to pick and choose which titles in your past filmography you want highlighted and which you want disappeared as "old": every film you've made should be listed in your article regardless of whether it's new or old, regardless of whether it's a short or a feature, regardless of whether you were a director, producer or actor in it, and regardless of whether it has its own separate Wikipedia article or not. The only acceptable reason for removing any film from the list would be if whoever added it made a mistake, and you actually had no involvement in the film at all. Our rules govern which films get listed in the article and which do not, not your own preferences of which films you want to highlight and which ones you want to ignore.

Secondly, please also familiarize yourself with our copyright rules around photographs. One of our rules is that the photograph is not allowed to have any other organization's proprietary watermark on it, like the "Quinzaine de Réalisateurs Cannes" logo in the bottom right of the new one or the "Copyright SIFF" notice that was in the bottom left of the one you tried to upload yesterday — any photo that has such a watermark is automatically not acceptable for use on Wikipedia under any circumstances. And no, that doesn't mean you can just crop the watermark out and reupload what's obviously still the same photo otherwise, either: if I can run the photo through a Google Images search and find any other website on which the photo has ever been used before being uploaded here, then you automatically have to clear a much, much higher burden of proof that you're the rightful copyright holder on the image than just saying it's your own work (which it clearly isn't, because it's clearly not a selfie). The copyright doesn't automatically belong to the person in the image, it belongs to the photographer unless and until you can prove that they've waived their copyright to you through legal means (such as by actually sending us a copy of the waiver.)

We do welcome additions and corrections to our articles if there's any content that's wrong or missing, so you're welcome to post to Talk:Johnny Ma to request a correction or inform us of anything new that you may have accomplished — but it's not your prerogative to dictate that we should ignore 70 per cent of your filmography, and the matter of which photo we use of you isn't really your decision to make either. We have rules that have to be followed, and one of those rules is that even if you're the subject of the article you still have to follow the same rules as everybody else. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 14:32, 7 September 2019 (UTC)