User talk:The RealPaulMercurio

Welcome!

 * Thank you for your message Crow. I am sussing out how to be a part of this community so thank you for your help. A simple question is how do I go about addressing the citations on the article written about me and also addressing the incorrect information regarding some of the dates etc? To reply to a message or post do I always have to edit? I have much to learn. The RealPaulMercurio (talk) 04:18, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Some things to be aware of
Hello and welcome! I saw your addition to the page about yourself, and unfortunately had to undo it, so I'd like to explain why and touch on some other things.

First, the text had to be removed because it was copyrighted by ICMI. Since Wikipedia releases its content under This Free License (which allows anyone anywhere to use, re-use, modify, parody, sell for a profit, or basically any purpose whatsoever), we must ensure that source material is similarly licensed. While ICMI might not that content being distributed freely, they may not want it changed, sold, or any of the other possibilities that our free license allows. In order to allow that text here, the copyright owner would need to follow the steps at WP:DCM, which involves private emailing to prove ownership of the text and allow its release under the aforementioned license.

Secondly, if you are indeed Mr. Mercurio, you should know that (since anyone can create an account with any name), you really should send an email to [mailto:info-en@wikimedia.org info-en@wikimedia.org] to confirm your identity. Precisely because anyone can create any name, we tend to lock out accounts with the names of well-known people, to prevent impersonation. Once we know it's really you, though, then there's no problem with the username.

However, the last piece of advice is that you really should not be editing an article about you directly, as it can be difficult to maintain the neutral tone that we look for when writing about yourself. See WP:AUTOBIO for more on that. The best way to make changes to the article is to propose them on the article's Talk page: Talk:Paul Mercurio. Especially after verifying your identity, such changes, especially factual ones, should not be overly controversial for another user to add to the page.

I hope this all helps. Please feel free to ask me any questions if needed. Thanks, and again Welcome! Crow Caw  20:38, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


 * HI Crow - regarding the copyright on the ICMI website - the resume is written by me and given to many organisations/charities/bureaus/PR companies for the purpose of promoting events that I maybe/will be involved in. The copyright as I can see on their website is for their website and I am not sure that the copyright would extend to my written work as there is no copyright claim on the actual document? I have been in touch with ICMI to clarify this. I have emailed Wikimedia as you mentioned and am awaiting a reply. The RealPaulMercurio (talk) 04:26, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Just to clarify a bit on copyright, once we see something published with a copyright notice, then we can't use it here until the copyright owner (whomever it may be) releases it under the free license I mentioned above. The tricky part is determining who is the owner (you, the website, a publisher, etc), so we put the onus on the owner to follow the steps at WP:DCM to sort that out with the volunteer staff via email. This also keeps personal info and business arrangements private and not plastered all over talk pages here. Thanks! Crow  Caw  16:33, 1 July 2017 (UTC)