User talk:Morganolberding

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Managing a conflict of interest
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September 2014
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 * broadcast with "Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)" from the Pixies, his self professed favorite band, "Pike St./Park Slope" from Harvey Danger, a Seattle band singing about Seattle and
 * ], Jason Hughes, Scott Vanderpool, Stevie Zoom, Sean Nelson and Hannah Levin. John Richards helps produce the show. Audioasis delivers three hours of local

Your addition to KEXP-FM has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ''Blatant advertising, see WP:PEACOCK, WP:NOTADVERT. Copy-paste of marketing blather from http://kexp.org/about Copyright 2013 KEXP All rights reserved'' Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:48, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello Morgan,You are an PR intern at KEXP, and like many PR interns before you, somebody told you to go update "your" Wikipedia page. Please understand that the article KEXP-FM does not belong to KEXP. It belongs to Wikipedia and the content is dictated by Wikipedia's rules. Wikipedia does not want public relations boilerplate and marketing blather copied into articles. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias are not made up of copy-pasted press releases. Please read Wikipedia is not advertising.Even if Wikipedia wanted copy-pastes of press releases, or copy-pastes of anything, KEXP has scotched that, because they have an unequivocal notice on the page you copied, http://kexp.org/about, which says, "Copyright 2013 KEXP All rights reserved". Please read Copyright violations.I suggest you do not edit KEXP-FM any more. It is extremely difficult to be objective about your employer. Your job is to make KEXP look good, and Wikipedia's purpose is to write articles from a neutral point of view. Do you see how those two things are in irreconcilable conflict? This is explained in great detail in Conflict of interest.If you insist on working on KEXP-FM, please go to Talk:KEXP-FM and make suggestions as to which changes you would like to see made in the article. Then patiently wait for someone else who has no conflict of interest to make the changes.Here is some more excellent reading on public relations and Wikipedia:
 * FAQ/Organizations
 * The Grande Guide To Wikipedia
 * Use Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool at Inc. (magazine)
 * Wikipedia Marketing - 5 Steps to Visibility on Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia 101 for Marketing

--Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:59, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi. I understand someone from KEXP marketing has been wanting to discuss updating the page KEXP-FM. The best place to post your questions and concerns is at Talk:KEXP-FM. Other editors -- not only me -- will assist you and we can all reach a consensus as to what changes need to be made to the article. Please read FAQ/Organizations and the other articles I suggested above. Also please avail yourself of resources like the Teahouse in the section below for help with Wikipedia. Remember, each person editing should create their own account; group or role accounts are not allowed. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:24, 13 September 2014 (UTC)