User talk:JLewis4Banks20

Hello, JLewis4Banks20. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Jay H. Banks, 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 or competitors;
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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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:29, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response, the info summited is directly from the public record and meant to provide information about the councilman. Please see link.

https://council.nola.gov/councilmembers/jay-banks/

72.237.170.6 (talk) 23:10, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The tone is cozy and promotional and entirely unsuitable for an encyclopedia article. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:42, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JLewis4Banks20, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 00:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am the source author. 72.237.170.6 (talk) 00:11, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant. It's still under full all-rights-reserved copyright, per the website, and Wikipedia's licence is in conflict with such copyright. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 00:13, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I feel I should also mention that you're not logged in. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 00:16, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Theoretically you could license the text under an acceptable license (one that allows reuse by anyone for anything including commercial use and modified versions), but that would be a waste of effort because its tone is unsuitable for an encyclopedia. —teb728 t c 11:56, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

- Thanks for the additional information. He is currently holding public office in the City of New Orleans and would like to have his biographical information shown on the page linked to his name, how can I facilitate that. Or How can he if he needs to do it himself?

Bluntly put, he does not get to dictate what content would be on a page about him. We go by what in-depth newspaper, news magazine, and trade publication articles with strong editorial oversight and no direct connexion to him or his surrogates have written about him. If those sources do not exist at present, then an article on him cannot exist. —A little blue Bori v^_^v ^{Takes a strong man to deny...} 02:04, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To put that less bluntly, Wikipedia has biographies only for people who are “notable” by our standards. Please read the notability guideline for politicians. As it says there, someone holding public office in a city is not generally regarded as notable, but may still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline.

Because of your conflict of interest you and councilman Banks are discouraged from creating an article about him, and if you try you should use the Articles for Creation process. Creating an acceptable article is the hardest task on Wikipedia, and your conflict of interest makes it extra hard. Note that if you succeed in creating an article, you will not be able to control its contents. And if there is anything publicly available about him that you would not want to have included in an article, it will probably find its way there eventually. —teb728 t c 07:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Let me say a little more about why it would be especially difficult for you to write an acceptable article: It is your job to promote him, but Wikipedia does not tolerate promotion. We find from experience that people in your position find it difficult to recognize when they are writing promotionally.

And, Wikipedia summarizes what is published in reliable sources; it does not allow personal knowledge, but you know many things about him that are not published. We find that people in your position have trouble setting aside their personal knowledge. —teb728 t c 08:23, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]