User talk:Kwwdts

Welcome!
Hello, Kwwdts, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 06:17, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Simplified Manual of Style

January 2014
Hello Kwwdts, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Daniel Whyte III has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 06:17, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Clarification
Although you can go through the process suggested above to use your material in the article, besides the conflict of interest problem there is also the fact that it would not be an independent source for material such as educational qualifications, etc. Dougweller (talk) 06:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Please see and join in at
WP:BLPN. Dougweller (talk) 06:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Reply
Mr. Dougweller: Mr. Wales:

Happy New Year!

Greetings,

As you can imagine, we didn't realize how well-organized Wikipedia is, however, we are happy to learn that it is. Because of this new knowledge and because we see that people are actually working for Wikipedia and, we assume, being supported by them for their living, we will be making a donation to Wikipedia in the near future.

We are very thankful that you have taken the time to give us the details that help us understand how to post to Wikipedia. Please forgive us of our ignorance regarding this matter. We set up this page five years ago, and we thought that everything was done right since no major edits were made up until this point. However from this experience we realize that in order for Wikipedia to be respected and seen as reliable, everything that is included needs to be appropriately documented. Thank you for educating us regarding this, and thank you for your patience towards our good intentions even though we did not fully understand the process.

We are in the process of writing the new bio information and, if you do not mind, we will send it to you for your approval.

Also, we are curious, was the Wikipedia page brought to your attention by someone for violations? Or was this just a routine check that Wikipedia does to ensure accuracy of content?

Best Regards,

Syntyche

Kwwdts (talk) 17:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)