User talk:Uptjeff

January 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Bellwether Technology Corporation. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JulieSpaulding (talk) 15:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Julie. Please excuse my inexperience as this is the first time I've ever created a page. I added references this morning. What else do I need to do to keep the page from being removed? Thank you very much for your help. I couldn't figure out how else to contact you. Uptjeff (talk) 17:24, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Bellwether1980.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image File:Bellwetherlogo1980.jpg
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About Paid Editing/Conflict-of-Interest Editing
Hello, Uptjeff. I am a fellow editor on this site with an overly-lengthy username. Sorry.

I noticed that you seem to have made quite a number of edits to the Bellwether Technology Corporation, and that you stated in at least one diff that "This is the official logo for Bellwether Technology Corporation. I work for the company and would like to add it..." I'm not sure whether you are being paid to edit Wikipedia or not, but even if you are not being paid, you still have a strong conflict-of-interest with the company.

I don't know if you're aware that Wikipedia has a rather stringent policy regarding conflict-of-interest editing or paid editing (since one of the fundamental rules of Wikipedia is that all articles must be written from a Neutral Point of View, and it is nearly impossible for someone that has a relationship with their company, or is being paid to promote their company, to achieve that). The full policy can be seen here (or a more condensed version can be seen here, since I know the original can be quite long and overwhelming), but in short the policies require this:
 * You need to disclose both on the article's talk page and on your user page that you either have a conflict-of-interest with the company, or that you have been paid to edit the article for the company (as well as mention "who is paying you, who the client is, and any other relevant role or relationship" in the latter case).
 * If the former is the case, you can most easily do that using the connected contributor template on the former and the UserboxCOI template on the latter.
 * If the latter is the case, you can most easily do that using the Connected contributor (paid) template on the former and the paid template on the latter.
 * You are  strongly discouraged  from directly editing the article, regardless of whether you are being paid or not; instead, it is highly recommended that you post the changes you wish to make on the article's talk page alongside a request edit template. That way, your requested changes can be listed in this category, and anyone patrolling that category can come and make the changes for you.
 * I should also mention that you are allowed to directly edit the article to make uncontroversial changes (fixing spelling/grammatical errors, etc.), but you should still be very careful when doing that.

I hope this is helpful; if you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page, or to ask questions at the Wikipedia Teahouse, where you will find several welcoming editors that will be happy to help you.

— TheHardestAspect&shy;OfCreatingAnAccount&shy;IsAlwaysTheUsername: posted at 19:37, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Bellwether1980.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image File:Bellwether1980.jpg
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