User talk:Kookyrabbit

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Copy and pasting

We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please send permission for release under a CC BY SA license to permissions-en@wikimedia.org per WP:CONSENT.--Lucas559 (talk) 20:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hello, Kookyrabbit. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Curtin University, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

To elaborate on the boilerplate message above: You mentioned at commons:Special:Diff/163569282 that you wished to contribute content on behalf of an organisation that you work for. If this organisation is Curtin University, as your use of first-person plural in edits like this suggests, please stop editing the article on the university immediately. It's unhelpful, it's unethical, and it's seriously embarrassing to see my alma mater join the ranks of self-promoters and SEO spammers. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:09, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I see that you've continued editing at Curtin University. Are you being paid by Curtin University to edit Wikipedia? Please respond. —LX (talk, contribs) 09:36, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

trying to edit

I have found trying to edit or update any info on Wikipedia quite difficult. I am not paid by my organisation to upload or maintain any info on the page. It is a University and as such I feel a pride in working there and wish to make sure the information is correct - surely Wikipedia is maintained by people who have a passion for the subject they edit the pages for. I initially wanted to update some very out of date images. I spoke to people around Uni and eventaully they sent me some images which they advised I could use. I have since tried to uplaod them but cannot find any copyright information that allows me to add them. I have emailed the people who supplied the images at my request and am waiting to see if they can supply me with some copyright information I can use. I have found the process somewhat frustrating to the point of almost being sorry I became involved. Now I feel obliged as all images have been removed entirely. I have limited time and can only chase things up when I get a chance. The only way I see to reinstate anything is to take photos of my own - which I will do if/when I have time. I have tried to seek help and guidance but I don't reeive it - only messages that the images have been removed. Kookyrabbit (talk) 01:48, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I understand that you are employed by Curtin University, so you have a financial conflict of interest with respect to the article on Curtin University and related topics. You can still contribute, but you should refrain from directly editing affected articles. Instead, you may suggest changes on Talk:Curtin University. This includes insertion of any images that you provide or substitution of images.

You say that you have sought help and guidance but not received it. As far as I can see, this is your first communication here on Wikipedia (in fact your only edit outside the Curtin University article), and over at Commons, you asked questions twice and received responses both times within a few hours. If there was something you didn't understand in those responses, feel free to follow up. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:08, 30 March 2016 (UTC)