User talk:Peppermint62

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Patricia Cornwell
I'm not sure why you have twice reverted the removal of a link to a deleted image. The image was deleted as a copyright infringement, or an image lacking source, several times now. In any event, restoring the link will not restore the image. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, or if there is some reason why the image link should remain. Thanks, --TeaDrinker (talk) 20:19, 4 March 2009 (UTC)\

The link to the image was from Ms. Cornwell's site posted by her publisher. We do not have any copyright information for it. It is her image. Can you please advise on how to publish this legitimate image if it does not have copyright information. Peppermint62 (talk) 23:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies for the lateness of my reply, I just saw this message. The procedure for getting copyright permission is outlined at Requesting copyright permission; unfortunately so long as the material is under copyright without an applicable license, it is not usable on Wikipedia.  I noticed you recently uploaded the picture under a creative commons license.  I think it is probably best to go ahead and delete the image until we actually have permission.  Let me know what you think (you can get ahold of me more quickly, if it has been a while since I left a note here, by putting a note on my talk page User_talk:TeaDrinker).  Thanks, --TeaDrinker (talk) 17:49, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note! If you have permission from Ms. Cornwell to license the photo as her agent, you should be in the clear; to be on the safe side, you should probably formally send an email to permissions-commons AT wikimedia DOT org, specifying you agree to license the photo (the best form to use is at WP:CONSENT), but I will go ahead and recreate the image.  Thanks so much for all the work, and jumping through all the hoops. Best wishes, --TeaDrinker (talk) 16:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Patricia Cornwell photo
Hi Peppermint62. I understand that you are interested in using the File:Patriciacornwell.jpg image on foreign language Wikipedias. For this to happen, that image just needs to be uploaded to Commons, but it would be best if we were able to first verify that we have the correct permissions for that image. I see that you originally uploaded that image in 2009 under a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license. This license allows anyone to copy, distribute, adapt or transmit the work; even for commercial purposes. If that is the license you intended, then I would suggest that you send a formal email to  using the text found at WP:CONSENT. Then we can copy the image over and it will be available for use on all of the Wikimedia sites. Gobōnobo + c 08:18, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Gobōnobo, I really can't thank you enough for your help. I just sent the email with the consent form filled out. Do I need to wait for a reply with authorization now? I do know how to upload the image to wikimedia commons. I am not sure that I know how to replace it on the foreign wiki's themselves. I think possibly I have not made enough edits to be allowed to do this?

Deadlinks
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not remove citations or information sourced through citations simply because a link to a source is not working, as you did to Patricia Cornwell. Dead links should not be deleted. Instead, please repair or replace the link, if possible, and ensure properly sourced information is retained. Often, a live substitute link can be found. Links not used as references, notes or citations are not as important, such as those listed in the "External links" or "Further reading" sections, but bad links in those sections should also be fixed if possible. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. 220  of  Borg 03:16, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Possible conflict of interest
Hello, Peppermint62. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Patricia Cornwell, 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 ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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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. You stated on 23 September 2010 in an edit summary on Patricia Cornwell: "this is PC's web administrator these are correct links please reference www.patriciacornwell.com)" This is OK, you can edit the page so long as you take heed of the cautions stated above. 220  of  Borg 03:40, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Reply re Deadlinks & COI
Hi I apologize for removing the dead link and will be sure not to do that in the future. While Ms. Cornwell acknowledges having "powerful moods", she was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder many years ago; this has since been revisited and corrected. I have the following article below which more accurately describes her diagnosis and is much more recent than the article you have referenced but not a clear statement of a misdiagnosis that I can reference online at the moment. I am affiliated with Ms Cornwell and do follow neutral editing practices. I did not attempt to correct the bipolar statement for years because until recently I did believe it stood as fact and now I believe it is incorrect and would like to fix it if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peppermint62 (talk) 13:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately that source appears to have been added without the title of the story, but the quote by Cornwell (about her 'wiring') it mentions is repeated all over the internet.
 * No problem, Peppermint62. Thank you for your polite response.
 * Another problem we now have is Cornwells many statements that she was bipolar, and the fact that 'verifiability not truth' is the yardstick for inclusion of WP:Biographies of living people(BLP) information on Wikipedia(WP). It is easy to 'prove' she is bipolar, hard to verify she isn't!
 * There are ways to get such inaccuracies fixed. There is a 'Contact Wikipedia' link at the bottom of each page that leads to another page where you may find a more direct link. You can even e-mail, if really necessary, the co-founder of Wikipedia Jimbo Wales. He has a WP account at . 220  of  Borg 14:47, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much Borg. I will follow your advice. Peppermint62 (talk) 14:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)