User talk:Skysnolimit

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Help me!
Please help me with... My edit of Earl Cooper Robertson was totally rejected. Reason given seems to be that I copied from the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame. The thing is that I am associated with this organization. I am once of their writers as well as the webmaster for the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame. It is with their permission that I added the information on Wikipedia for Mr. Robertson one of our Inductees.

However, I understand your concerns. Does the information have to be rewritten. We have other inductees to the hall of fame that we want add to Wikipedia and also information to add for existing hall of fame personalities that already have a page on Wikipedia. As well we want to create a page for the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame and would prefer not to rewrite what we exists for our organization.

What do you suggest is the best steps? Keeping in mind that we would rather not rewrite everything. Skysnolimit (talk) 06:11, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The information needs to be rewritten no matter what. Because Wikipedia uses a copyright licence that is utterly incompatible with traditional all-rights-reserved copyright, we cannot accept any content copy-pasted from another website. —Jéské Couriano v^&lowbar;^v  Source assessment notes 06:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Skysnolimit, you should start by disclosing your conflicts of interest, as explained at WP:PAID. I can not see your additions to the article as they have been hidden from public view, but I am looking at the webpage you copied from, and at the bottom, it says, all copyright is reserved with the organisation. Wikipedia is a compendium of free knowledge. Technically speaking, you could have your website modified to display a copyleft license compatible with Wikipedia (see WP:DONATETEXT). Practically though, the kind of flowery language that you are likely to want to present your inductees' achievements in in your own website is going to be completely unsuitable for reuse without modification on Wikipedia. We've got a bunch of content policies you need to know of (WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:BLP) as well as notability guidelines that determine whether an inductee of yours or anybody else meets Wikipedia's inclusion criteria (start at WP:N). — Usedtobecool ☎️ 06:31, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
Hello Skysnolimit. You have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Skysnolimit. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please provide the required disclosure. Usedtobecool ☎️ 06:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)