User talk:NPAnderson

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello NPAnderson, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


 * 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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 the 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 legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse 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 or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Translation. See also 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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 19:58, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019
One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Connormah (talk) 22:35, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, NPAnderson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 16:16, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Politicians
Please note that any updates you wish to make to our articles about MLAs have to be written and formatted and referenced according to our rules.

Firstly, you do not rewrite the introduction so that the very first sentence is about their cabinet position. The introduction must be something along the lines of "So-and-So is a Canadian politician who serves in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. [She/He] represents the district of [Name of Riding] as a member of the [Political Party]" — anything about cabinet positions gets added to the article body sometime after the introduction, and does not replace the introduction.

Secondly, any information you want to add about their personal lives and/or their careers prior to being elected as MLAs has to be supported by reliable sources. You are not allowed to add information to the articles that you know personally because you work with them — if a fact about their employment histories or families hasn't been reported in media coverage about the person, then it doesn't go in our article at all. We have to be able to independently reverify every single fact that's present in our articles, because if somebody else comes along and tries to change any of it in the future we'll have no way of knowing what's right and what's wrong — so we can only publish information that has already been published by other sources, and cannot publish "insider" information that you know from somewhere other than their media coverage. Even if you just want to add the name of an MLA's wife or husband, we still can't publish that here without a media reference to support it, because we still have to be able to independently reverify it on our own.

I realize that you're an employee of the UCP; however, you need to understand that your job gives you no special privileges to control the content, format or sourcing of Wikipedia's articles. You're allowed to make purely factual edits as long as they comply with our rules, but you're not allowed to make up your own special rules for "your" articles: anything you add still has to conform to our rules about writing tone, formatting and the use of reliable sources to properly verify the information. The MLAs and the party don't "own" the articles, and aren't free to decide that their own personal preferences override our rules — we accept contributions that comply with our rules, but the articles have to read like encyclopedia articles and not "campaign brochures", and they cannot contain any information that we cannot independently reverify through media coverage. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 17:14, 27 September 2019 (UTC)