User talk:Mathersm

Home theater PC
Hello, Mathersm. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Home theater PC, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Adding the photograph is probably OK, but you will need to go to the wikimedia commons and do proper attribution since the image appears in on the company website. It's currently nominate for deletion due to copyright issues without proper attribution. However, any links to the site will be removed.Mattnad (talk) 21:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, so regarding the photograph on the commons, you need to provide the information that you took it (which you have) and find an example template of how to properly cite that. It's a bit suspicious when people post a picture of their own that appears on a commercial website. So you need to be clear that you were the photographer of that picture too to cover this.  People take images online all the time and claim they took them.


 * As for the link as a reference, it's not kosher. A commercial website selling something is not a reliable source according WP:RS and using it as reference is a backdoor way of inserting a commercial link which is advertising and against the rules of WP:EL.Mattnad (talk) 14:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)