User talk:MarcoRBDA

Hello, I have created an article on the cool global Design Awards I work for 'The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards'. I am scared however that the username I have provided 'MarcoRBDA' is the title of the page, obviously my article has not being confirmed yet and I can't see how the finished article will look but is there any way I can change this to the page title is The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards? Regards, Damien
 * Hi, in order to save your page from deletion, I have moved it to Draft:Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. You may continue editing it there. When you feel that it is ready for submission, simply click the big green button at the top. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 10:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Restaurant & Bar Design Awards


A tag has been placed on Draft:Restaurant & Bar Design Awards requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from https://www.linkedin.com/pub/damien-crook/2a/a35/190. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Help me!
Hi there, I have deleted the information from my Linkedin page of Damien Crook, the awards are a global success and it would mean a great deal to me if the article could be shared on Wikipedia, we have the worlds biggest designers attend our awards each year as you can see from the article such as Zaha Hadid etc and we have a book published by TASCHEN. I understand you have copyright rules and regulations but surely you can't class my text as copyright from my Linkedin page, if in fact the text is my own in the first instance? It would mean a great deal to me to have the article published and would be a pleasure to be introduced to Wikipedia. If you do have any questions please get straight back to me or email me at damien@restaurantandbardesignawards.com

MarcoRBDA (talk) 10:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello. If the text is yours, you can donate it by filling out the form and e-mailing it to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Mention in the e-mail that the article was speedy deleted for copyright reasons and they can probably undelete it for you. Also, you should probably read wp:COI to be sure you use best practices for people with conflict of interest. Best of luck! Happy Squirrel (talk) 14:22, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Restaurant & Bar Design Awards has been accepted
 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Sulfurboy (talk) 19:59, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi MarcoRBDA I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Thanks for disclosing your relationship with the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. I would like to help you manage your conflict of interest going forward, now that the article you drafted is part of the encyclopedia. I am first providing you with formal notice of our COI guideline and of the Terms of Use. I'll have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, MarcoRBDA. 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 on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


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 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Comments and question
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step, which you have started by disclosing it on this (your own) Talk page. In Wikipedia, that disclosure should go on the relevant article Talk page (which I already did for you), and on your user page (which is here: User:MarcoRBDA). Something simple like "I am employee of the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards" would be great. Would you please take care of that?

The peer review" piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done.  No intermediary.  What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes. (this is what you did, which is great!) b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI (like the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards now that it is "live"), we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement, instead of doing it directly yourself.  You can make the edit request easily -  and provide notice to the community of your request -  by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page at Talk:Restaurant & Bar Design Awards - there is a link at "click here" in that section --  if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.

Will you please make the COI disclosure on your user page, and agree to follow the peer review processes? Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 19:29, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Jytdog (talk) Many thanks for your help, apologies for the delay, had a house move! I am employee of the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. I now fully understand after hours of article reading and helpful tips how content should be added to the article. I shall now in future be less bias and add only content that will reflect a non promotional sense of editorial scripting.