User talk:Stephan Wehnes

I didn't plagerize any of the content on the page that I created. I have permission from Laura Hassler, my boss. Please ask her, she also has a Wikipedia account and in the permissions email I sent you I also gave you her email. I worked pretty hard on making the page and you decided to crop it down to just a few lines that aren't correct. They don't give a clear image about what the organization does at all. The organization doesn't do purely music education. They help people in war-torn areas overcome traumas by making music with them, it's not always in the form of a class, but it is always as part of a group and it's always a part of dealing with the current situation, overcoming boundaries and building communities, maybe even rebuilding them. As is the case in Mitrovica where the war for Kosovo split a community in half. There is a river flowing through the city that seperated one part of the people from the others. Basically the Muslim Kosovarians from the other people. The Mitrovica Rock School managed to seperate religious boundaries and reunite a part of the youth of this split city. That's just one example of what the organization managed and still manages to do. This organization definitely is worth mentioning on wikipedia because it does a lot of work, I can even give you mission statements and everything, but those aren't all public, so I can't reference to them. If I could, I would have.

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Hello, Stephan Wehnes, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of deletion, you might like to draft your article before submission, then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. To start creating a draft article, just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit that page as you would any other. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

The one firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. It is also worth noting that Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which specifically link them to one company or corporation. If your username does have such a name, it would be advisable for you to request a change of username.

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June 2011
Your addition to Musicians without Borders has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.  Cind. amuse  10:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Stephan Wehnes


A tag has been placed on User:Stephan Wehnes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.  Cind. amuse  10:52, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Hello Stephan Wehnes. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. In addition, Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion, and your user page was unambiguously promotional. I was about to delete it for that reason when another administrator deleted it for copyright reasons. You can, of course, follow the instructions you have been given for releasing copyright if you like, but my advice is that it would be a waste of your time, as the material would be deleted as promotional anyway. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:44, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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Hi. As unintuitive as it is, we add new posts at the bottom. Also, if you place four tildes after the post, it signs and times the post. Cheers, Dloh  cierekim  15:23, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Various issues relating to your editing

 * In your message at the top of the you raise various issues, and more issues are mentioned in the other messages here. Here are a few comments about some of them. I hope you will find them helpful.

As far as I know, nobody has accused you of plagiarism, which is not at all the same as copyright infringement. I see that you say that an email has been sent giving copyright release, so my advice in my earlier message that it was not worth doing so came too late. However, in my experience it is rarely worth while giving copyright permission to sue material from an organisation's web site, as such material almost always gets deleted as being promotional.

From what you say, the organisation may well be doing very worthwhile work. However, Wikipedia's inclusion criteria are based not on our assessment of how valuable or virtuous the subject of an article is, but rather on whether the subject has received substantial coverage in established reliable sources. (You may like to look at Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause.) Consequently "This organization definitely is worth mentioning on wikipedia because it does a lot of work" is not, I'm afraid, a valid reason for inclusion. In addition to this, if you are writing about an organisation because you think it is a good and worthwhile cause, and deserves to be better known, then you are writing to promote the organisation, but Wikipedia's policy is that it is not a medium for any sort of promotion. I will not repeat what I have already said about conflict of interest above, but I will briefly say that someone who is closely involved in an subject is rarely the right person to write an article about that subject. Even if they genuinely wish to write objectively and don't intend to edit in a promotional way it can be difficult or impossible for them to stand back and see how their writing will look from the detached perspective of an uninvolved outsider, so with the best will in the world they are often unable to write in a suitably neutral way.

Finally, there is the question of whether the organisation meets Wikipedia's notability criteria. I have made searches, and have found a significant amount of coverage of "Musicians without Borders", but almost all of what I have seen has been from the organisation itself, people associated with it, or other organisations supporting it, so it looks to me as though there is a lack of coverage in independent sources. However, even if I am wrong about that, the other considerations I have mentioned still apply. JamesBWatson (talk) 18:35, 8 June 2011 (UTC)