User talk:Pamela Gardiner/Archive 7

File permission problem with File:2001 A Human Oddity, David Reekie, Jan 2001.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:2001 A Human Oddity, David Reekie, Jan 2001.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly hi! 22:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2012
Delivered February 2012 by ENewsBot. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage. → Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 10:29, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

February 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Etta James. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 12:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Promoting Colin Larkin and his btoe.com website
Hello Pamela Gardiner. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:


 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
 * Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
 * Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).
 * Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.--McGeddon (talk) 12:36, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Sockpuppet investigations/Pamela Gardiner for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. McGeddon (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Bell exhibition invite.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Bell exhibition invite.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly hi! 09:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition).jpg
Thanks for uploading File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd edition).jpg, which you've sourced to Colin Larkin (A search for "All Time Top 1000 Albums" in OTRS shows no hits). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:40, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (Virgin, 2000).jpg
Thanks for uploading File:All Time Top 1000 Albums (Virgin, 2000).jpg, which you've sourced to Colin Larkin (A search for "All Time Top 1000 Albums" in OTRS shows no hits). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2012
Delivered March 2012 by ENewsBot. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage. → Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 08:56, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

btoe.com blacklist
Good to see you've been following my conversation with Mr Larkin. Yes, I submitted btoe.com to the spam blacklist after manually clearing up around forty articles where your children (?) had used the site as an inappropriate reference. (The aggregated opinion of one small pool of anonymous internet voters is not reliable enough to say "X is the best known work of writer Y", and it seems unlikely that we would ever want to write about any individual poll results in context.) I explained the reasoning at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, which you seem to have found by yourself.

If you're concerned about the blacklisting, all you have to do is follow the instructions at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist and "show where the link can be useful on Wikipedia". There may be some merit in whitelisting the main page of btoe.com, for linking from Colin Larkin's biography article, while keeping the rest blacklisted. --McGeddon (talk) 15:49, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The sites you list are, glancing at them, services that aggregate the overall scores of published reviews for something. Btoe.com aggregates the overall scores of some anonymous internet users' opinions. This is meaningless as a source for an encyclopedia as it is WP:NOTRELIABLE (I assume Larkin's "editorial control" is merely moderating against joke answers and blatant vote-stuffing, rather than extensively manipulating the outcomes of polls) and unambiguously WP:USERGENERATED.
 * Virtually all of the "in 2011, Robert de Niro was voted the best actor on earth" type edits that you and your family added to Wikipedia could be overruled at any time with a handful of extra votes. I would only require a dozen volunteers from a Steve Martin fan site (or ten minutes with a proxy IP server) to put Martin above de Niro as "the best actor on earth" on btoe.com. There is no way that Wikipedia could regard the outcome of a btoe.com poll as a reliable source for any statement. --McGeddon (talk) 09:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2012
Delivered April 2012 by ENewsBot. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage. → Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 05:22, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2012
Delivered May 2012 by ENewsBot. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage. → Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 23:44, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2012
Delivered June 2012 by ENewsBot. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage. → Please direct all enquiries regarding this newsletter to the WikiProject talk page. → Newsletter delivered by ENewsBot (info) · 12:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)