User talk:North Tarrant Express

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Your addition to North Tarrant Express 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. The material appears to be substantially taken from: http://www.northtarrantexpress.com/AboutNTE.asp. 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. —C.Fred (talk) 23:18, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey C.Fred,

I am am the PR/Marketing Coordinator for North Tarrant Express. What was it in particular that was used that wasn't edited correctly? I have permission by the CEO of our company to create this page. You didn't specify exactly what it was that I wasn't supposed to use. Was it a photo? Text?

You deleted all the work I spent all day editing. You could have just deleted what was protected and left the rest. Please help me as I do not want to get permanently blocked. I am pretty pissed that you deleted everything and not just what was wrong with the article. (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2014 (CST)


 * It was the text that was copied from the NTE website. Since the website bears an all-rights-reserved license notice, the text may not be copied here unless either the license statement is changed to show the text under a free license (Creative Commons, GFDL, or public domain) or the material is donated via email communication with Wikipedia. As far as I could tell, all of today's edits were copied and thus unusable on Wikipedia.


 * Remember that once material is donated or placed under free license, "the genie is out of the bottle", and the license cannot be revoked. For instance, the image you uploaded to File:Traffic Photo.jpg—since it's in the public domain, it could be used on somebody else's website or in a book, and they aren't even obligated to credit NTE as the source of the image.


 * Finally, you should take a look through Wikipedia's guidelines on editing when you have a conflict of interest. As a PR person for NTE, you aren't prohibited from editing NTE's article, but you are strongly advised to edit very cautiously and make sure all your edits preserve neutral point of view. —C.Fred (talk) 02:12, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Traffic Photo.jpg
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Replaceable fair use File:DFW Traffic.jpg
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. Thank you. -- Ed (Edgar181) 12:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Also, it may be that I do have a close connection with the company, however, I am writing this from an unbiased perspective. I am adding sources to corroborate what I am writing. I feel like I am being harassed for simply trying to write about the company that no one has added on since its creation on Wikipedia in 2010.

Your new name was OK, but perhaps considering this query will help you understand what the issue is from our perspective:

Here are a few key questions:
 * Do you understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and not a business directory?
 * Do you understand conflict of interest?
 * Do you understand that to be considered for an encyclopedia article, the subject must be notable?

You are currently blocked because your username appears directly related to a company, group or product that you have been promoting, contrary to the username policy. Changing the username will not allow you to violate the 3 important principles above. Daniel Case (talk) 17:12, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

I can understand where I have made some critical mistakes. First, let me clarify, North Tarrant Express is a brand new highway and toll road being built for Dallas Fort Worth area. I work for a company with a different name. I said earlier that I work for North Tarrant Express and that was a misuse of words on my part. Secondly, I wrote this piece from a a collaboration of materials in a word document and was going to put references once the material was put into the page. I am not writing to promote the "product" only to inform and educate, which is what an encyclopedia hopes to do. So as to your questions:

1) Yes, I understand, more so now what Wikipedia's purpose is. 2) I understand what a conflict of interest is. I am writing from an unbiased perspective. Which you can see that much of the writing is simply stating facts. Such as; length of project, cost, and location. 3) The subject is in fact very notable. It is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the 4th fastest-growing city in America. Costing, altogether, nearly $5,000,000,000.00. In case that wasn't understood 5 billion dollars.

I do however appreciate the constant concern for me and the page. I'm learning a lot and hope to be a valued editor in the future. Now, unblock me please and thank you.

(talk) 09:39, 2 May 2014 (CST)
 * With respect to (2) a conflict of interest editor generally can't see the biases in his writing, as your answer to (3) indicates. We require multiple substantial mentions in multiple sources unaffiliated with the subject in order to establish notability, not an obscene amount of cash or fans. — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 20:19, 2 May 2014 (UTC)


 * As the Founder of Wikipedia has said: those with conflict of interest should never edit the article directly, they should only propose sourced edits on its talkpage. Having reviewed that article, it's a promotional piece - full of unencyclopedic terms.  It might have been a useful article beginning, but it's been turned into something wholly promotional - by you.  If you're planning on NOT editing the article directly, then this may be doable - right now, based on the damage done until now and your own inability to "recognize the biases in your writing", I cannot see this unblock being successful  the panda ₯’  10:43, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:NTE Company Logo 2014.jpg
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