User talk:Sabican

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jean-Claude Roy (artist) (June 12)
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:18, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * The text used was not copyrighted work. It was copied from the website of the artist with his approval. Isn't it possible if the artist approves? Sabican (talk) 13:23, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * What evidence is there that the source website is not under copyright? There is no © claim, but copyright arises automatically upon creation, and does not need to be expressly claimed. Unless there is evidence that the work has been released into the public domain on a creative commons or similar licence which is compatible with Wikipedia's policies, we can only assume it is still held under copyright. The copyright owner would have to not only give Wikipedia a permission to use the content, but they must release it completely, because Wikipedia itself is available under a creative commons licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). In any case, you should not be copypasting content from other sources, but summarising in your own words what those sources say.
 * On a related but separate matter, your suggestion that "artist approves" implies that you have some sort of external relationship with them. In that case, you must make a conflict-of-interest (COI) disclosure. I will post a message below with more details and advice on managing a COI. Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:32, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Sabican, I've deleted that page because (according to a tool that I use) 87.2% of it was copied from here; that's the website of a commercial gallery, not the artist. There are instructions for donating copyright material to the Wikimedia project here; please be aware that in practice such material is almost never found to be suitable for inclusion in this encyclopaedia. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:58, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello
 * Thank you for your message. The content was not copied from a commercial gallery but from the artist's website: http://jcroy.com/site/
 * It is the gallery that copied the content from the website of the artist. Sabican (talk) 06:59, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Sabican. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Jean-Claude Roy (artist), 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:32, 12 June 2023 (UTC)