User talk:Positive Psychotherapy

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Positive Psychotherapy! Your additions to Positive psychotherapy have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) 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.


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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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

April 2023
Your edit to Positive psychotherapy 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. — Diannaa (talk) 20:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The webpage we used for the lates editings is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which is indicated on the bottom of the pages here: https://www.positum.org/history/ and here: https://www.positum.org/about-ppt-method/ which allows to share the text with provided link to the resourse which we indicated. Could you pelase specify what and why is needed more? Positive Psychotherapy (talk) 06:03, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Several problems: Writing an article about your own organisation or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. I have placed some information about conflict of interest below.Why do you say "we"? Shared accounts are not allowed.Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License is not a compatible license. See WP:Compatible license for a list of compatible licenses.Even if the source document was compatibly licensed, a lot of the content you added is not suitable for Wikipedia for other reasons. One large barrier to inclusion is our strict requirements for sources for medical articles. See WP:MEDRS for more infomation on this topic. — Diannaa (talk) 12:54, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the reply! May I ask why you deleted the part which wasn't added ny me? There was a descriptive part with a main characteristics of the method (looked like a list), which was in the article before, probably for years, but you delete it either even it wasn't added by me. Positive Psychotherapy (talk) 15:57, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I removed it because it was copied from the webpages https://www.positum.org/about-ppt-method/ and https://www.positum.org/history/. It's immaterial who added it. By the way I am not seeing the license on those pages, just a copyright notice "© 2023 World Association of Positive Psychotherapy e.V. (WAPP)" — Diannaa (talk) 21:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No, it was vise versa. The text from Wikipedia was used for the website. Yes, the license is removed now because it doesn't make any sense anymore.
 * Thank you for the reply. Please get back the text which was before for years which I didn't paste or edited. I will not make any additions to this article. Positive Psychotherapy (talk) 07:18, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest and shouldn't be editing the article at all. You need to follow the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE. If you are being paid to edit Wikipedia, you also must declare that, as per the instructions at WP:PAID. — Diannaa (talk) 13:00, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
 * The Wayback Machine shows that the content from the history page was not present on Wikipedia at the time of the oldest archive. So it was not copied from Wikipedia. I'm not seeing any proof about the methods page but I won't be restoring any of it regardless, since it was added initially without any sources. The only citation we have is the positum.org website, which if as you say was copied from Wikipedia in the first place, it is therefore a circular reference and not a proper citation at all. So it's essentially unsourced. — Diannaa (talk) 13:29, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Positive Psychotherapy. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Positive psychotherapy, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 12:54, 24 April 2023 (UTC)