User talk:Martin Professional

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Hello, Martin Professional, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Martin Professional, which 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.

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Martin Professional
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Mean as custard (talk) 09:53, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Martin MAC Viper.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Martin MAC Viper.jpg, which you've attributed to http://www.martin.com. 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 created 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
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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 on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Dianna (talk) 01:33, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Single Purpose Account
This is probably pointless, since you ignored your original notice, but...

From WP:CORPNAME: "The following types of usernames are not permitted because they are considered promotional: Usernames that unambiguously represent the name of a company, group, institution or product (e.g. AlexTownWidgets, MyWidgetsUSA.com, TrammelMuseumofArt)."

From WP:ISU: "Because Wikipedia's policy is that usernames should not be shared between more than one individual, usernames that imply the likelihood of shared use are not permitted. This means that: Usernames that are simply names of companies or groups are not permitted (these also fall under Promotional names above)."

If you wish to continue editing Wikipedia, you should either request a username change at WP:RENAME (if this is not a shared account, which I seriously doubt) or abandon this account and create new accounts for individual editors.

Also, from WP:COI:

"Wikimedia owns Wikipedia and defines the terms of use for anyone using Wikipedia. The WMF Terms of Use as of 2014 contain a section called "Refraining from Certain Activities" which contains a subsection as follows: Paid contributions without disclosure

These Terms of Use prohibit engaging in deceptive activities, including misrepresentation of affiliation, impersonation, and fraud. As part of these obligations, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. You must make that disclosure in at least one of the following ways:


 * a statement on your user page,
 * a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
 * a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions.

Applicable law, or community and Foundation policies and guidelines, such as those addressing conflicts of interest, may further limit paid contributions or require more detailed disclosure."

Further, you may not remove legitimate sources from an article, that validate the given information, while rewriting the text into your preferred phrasing, especially when the new phrasing is essentially 'advertising'.

From WP:NOTADVERTISING

"Wikipedia is not a soapbox, a battleground, or a vehicle for propaganda, advertising and showcasing. This applies to usernames, as well as articles, categories, templates, talk page discussions, and user pages. Therefore, content hosted in Wikipedia is not for:

5. Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery. All article topics must beverifiable with independent, third-party sources..."

Therefore, I've reverted the edit you made here, in which you not only removed 13 sources from the Martin Professional article, but actually 'broke' the display of the article itself. Also, please direct your attention to here when you were reverted by with the edit summary 'revert promotional b*llsh*t'.

To make this perfectly clear, IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR A COMPANY'S ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT TO REWRITE THEIR WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE AS PART OF AN ANNUAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN. Revent talk  02:01, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Martin Professional logo.png
 Thanks for uploading File:Martin Professional logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:22, 7 August 2015 (UTC)