User talk:PAHouseGOP

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August 2008
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About Wikipedia
At wikipedia, we expect editor to be neutral. So, be careful to avoid any behavior which would make it look like you're here to advance some political agenda. Friday (talk) 19:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Brian L. Ellis
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Some thoughts
I notice that you have been adding materials regarding the PA House of Representatives, and I thank you! There was some concern that your username of "PAHouseGOP" signaled that you would be pushing a particular point of view, which would conflict with wikipedia's politcy of article neutrality, but your edits so far have been totally neutral and very helpful.

I did notice that you are making some minor "rookie" mistakes in your article creation, and I have cleaned some of them up. If you continue to use wikipedia, you will pick up some coding conventions (including the use of infoboxes and the prose style). However, there are a few things I should warn you about.

Someone already tried to delete your article about Brian Ellis, saying that he was not notable enough to be on wikipedia. Clearly, as an elected politician, he certainly is, but the article must contain some statement of notability. Usually, something like "X is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives" will suffice. I saved the Ellis article, but I thought you should know this so that people don't keep trying to delete your article.

Here is another thing: I notice that you are uploading some maps of legislative districts. Due to copyright issues, this is a very touchy subject. Generally, you may only upload things that you have created yourself, like a photo of a building or a tree. These images are likely to be deleted very soon, unless we can establish that you work for the PA House Caucus (who would be the owner) and are authorized to release them for use on wikipedia. If you can do this, let me know by leaving a message on my talk page: User_talk:TheZachMorrisExperience and I can walk you through this process. Seriously, we would LOVE to have the ability to show legislative maps (compare the quality of this page Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 25 with this pagePennsylvania's 18th congressional district). --TheZachMorrisExperience (talk) 16:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Following up on the previous comments. Couple of things that I think are important.  One: Cutting and pasting from the member's website like you did with Dick Stevenson is out.  So I am asking you to stop doing this.  We are the ones who will ultimately have to clean this up if we want to save these articles.  I would like your help in doing that.


 * Two: Remember one thing. These articles are not a personal webspace, nor are they owned by the House GOP Caucus. Once the WP page is up here, its fair game.  People on the other side of the aisle are here too.  Sometimes you are going to find criticism about your people appearing on the pages.  If its innuendo, unsourced nonsense, it won't stay long per WP:BLP.  If its sourced, legitimate and relevant it likely stays in the article.  I have already gone through this with a couple of folks from the House Democratic caucus.  (Although we finally chased the Mark B. Cohen fan club.)  Getting into content wars here has the potential to make you look pretty dumb.  Ask Marina Kats  .  Montco (talk) 12:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems
I have noticed that a number of the articles you have added to Wikipedia copy (in part) the websites of the subjects. This is generally considered a copyright violation when the copy is ver batim. If you wish to add further information to Wikipedia, please make sure to do so in your own words. Someguy1221 (talk) 17:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Kathy Rapp
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 * PAHouseGOP, you need to start taking Wikipedia policies seriously. I went and cleaned up your work on Kathy Rapp. It doesn't make much effort for you to start following wikipedia guidelines. First, you can't use copyrighted materials. Second, if you want to keep uploading the member portraits, you will need to verify that you actually "created this work entirely by myself" and have the authority to license them under GFDL and cc-by-sa. Message me here: User talk:HoboJones, and I can walk you though the steps to do this. If not, some administrator will come along and delete everything you have done. --HoboJones (talk) 21:15, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. You are releasing (assuming you have authority to do so) all of these official House portraits under GFDL and cc-by-sa, which means that anyone (including any political enemies) has the right to use these image in pretty much any way that they want, including in opposition pieces. I strongly suggest that you contact the House Caucus attorney to make sure that you 1) have the authority to do so and 2)that you are not violating caucus policy. These are not free images just because they come from the government. Pennsylvania (unlike the federal government) maintains copyright over all of its works. This is serious. And this is the last time that I will try to help you avoid the possible serious repercussions if you continue. Contact me at User talk:HoboJones if you would like me help.--HoboJones (talk) 16:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

House Caucus
Hello, and thank you for your additions to Wikipedia. Your contributions are very helpful. There are just two things that you should keep in mind. I can help walk you through this process until you get more acquainted with wikipedia.

1) Copying and pasting text from other sources is not allowed. (This was the problem with the Kathy Rapp article). This policy is very similar to the non-plagarism policies at every college and highs school. Basically, you can use the information from anywhere, but you must put it in your own words. This problem is easily fixed.

2) You must be extra careful when uploading images. With some exceptions (and I can explain these if you like), you can only upload images that are licensed under a "free license." Basically, this means that any image you upload must be able to be re-used by anybody for any reason. This is an easy requirement to satisfy when you are uploading a picture that you took yourself.

But the situation with the official house portraits in a little trickier, since they belong to the House Caucus. An extra step must be taken to confirm that the owner of the picture has agreed to license it under one of the "free licenses." This is done by a process called OTRS. Basically, this means that you have to send an email to wikipedia's administrators that confirms that you are releasing the images under one of the two "free licenses." This email is then archived in the wikipedia system as proof that all of the legal requirements have been satisfied. Here is an example of an image that I had to get OTRS confirmation for: commons:Image:Diplodocus_carnegii_statuePittsburgh.jpg.

Here's how you do it: Send an email from your official pahousegop.com email address to "permissions-en@wikimedia.org" with the text from here: User:HoboJones/PAHouseGOP. Then an OTRS administrator will tag these images as being "confirmed."

I know this is a lot of information at once, and it took me a while before I got a handle on it, so I tried to simplify it as much as possible. If you have any other questions, I will be more than happy to help you. We try to collaborate as much as possible here, so keep me in the loop on how this is working. You can contact me on my talk page User talk:HoboJones. Thanks! --HoboJones (talk) 20:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Portraits
I am glad that I was able to help you out. The portraits are still on the wikipedia servers, and it is possible that someone will try to put them back in the profiles. If you like, you can have the images deleted by placing "db-author" on the image pages. Here is a link with a list of all your images:. Click on the image and then click "edit this page" to access the image information.

If I may make a suggestion, if the caucus decides not to use the portraits, maybe invite the members to supply their own photos for wikipedia. --HoboJones (talk) 16:06, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked; use of account for promotional purposes; impermissible role account
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 * I have contacted the admin who blocked you and advocated on your behalf. All you probably need to do is change your username, and you'll be unblocked.--HoboJones (talk) 03:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

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HELP!!
I was unaware I was violating Wikipedia's username policy. I would like to change my username to "PAHouse", but I am blocked from contacting an administrator to do so, so any help would be much appreciated. I am simply trying to put useful information about Pennsylvania House Members on this site for the benefit of Wikipedia readers. Thank you! PAHouseGOP (talk) 19:42, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

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Unblock, images on Commons
Hello. I might be 5 years late, but better late than never? No one saw your unblock request. If you still need help, let me know, and I'll be glad to walk you through the process. I'm an administrator so I'm fairly familiar with the process.

Also, the maps of yours that were just nominated for deletion, I've moved to Commons. They are here: commons:Category:State House district maps of Pennsylvania. Magog the Ogre (t • c) 22:50, 16 January 2014 (UTC)