User talk:SHBE2019

April 2019
It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, for more than one reason, the most important being copyright. When you post anything to Wikipedia you release it for anyone in the world to reuse it, either unchanged or modified in any way whatever, subject to attribution to Wikipedia. It is very rare that the owner of a web site licenses content for such very free reuse, and in those few occasions when they do so, we require proof of the fact. We don't assume that content is freely licensed on the unsubstantiated say so of just anyone who comes along and creates a Wikipedia account. In the case of the sandbox page which you created, releasing the content under Wikipedia's licensing terms is clearly completely incompatible with the terms of use of the web site from which it was taken. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, SHBE2019. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:57, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystem (SHBE) is a new interdisciplinary topic that we want to reach people around the world. This is through a research network and is not a company or we are not posting for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything. We would like to create an article page similar to the “International Network for Sustainable Energy” presenting Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystem where people are add to the body of knowledge. How did the International Network for Sustainable Energy overcome (1) “avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors” (2) “disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles” and (3) "avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles?"

SHBE2019 (talk) 19:01, 11 April 2019 (UTC)


 * You say that you "want to reach people around the world", and then you say that you are not trying to publicise or promote anything. Writing in order to help your topic to "reach people around the world" is trying to publicise or promote it.
 * You are 100% right about "International Network for Sustainable Energy". That page and others with essentially the same content were created by an editor clearly acting in violation of the conflict of interest guidelines and various Wikipedia policies. She was repeatedly asked to clean the pages up but failed to do so. At least one of them was nominated for deletion, but the nomination was declined by an administrator for the administrative reason that the editor who made the nomination had given an invalid reason in the nomination, rather than because it did not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for deletion. (Personally I would have checked the article to see whether there were other problems, apart from the one mistakenly given in the nomination.) The pages were blatantly violations of several Wikipedia policies, most importantly the policy against promotion, and they should have been deleted long ago. Now that you have drawn my attention to them I have deleted them. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 11:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I am a little confused. Could you give me am example of how you would write on a topic. How did the editors of "U.S. Green Building Council" and "Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED)" overcome these issues. Please help us to understand how to write an article on our topic. Please give me some best practice.

SHBE2019 (talk) 20:45, 18 April 2019 (UTC)