User talk:Onionknight3

Welcome, with a note about conflict of interest requirements and copyright

Hello, Onionknight3. Welcome to Wikipedia!

I have had to remove some of the content you added to the article Barry-Wehmiller for two reasons.

First, it is copied directly from an external site. Wikipedia cannot freely use content from other sites unless we are able to verify that this material is public domain or compatibly licensed with our own site. Otherwise, we can only use limited quotations, and only within our copyright policies. Please see WP:Copy-paste for more information on these policies.

Even had we permission, however, we would be unable to use that text because it does not otherwise conform to our policies. Wikipedia's goal is to neutrally summarize what reliable sources say about notable subjects. If reliable sources use language like "leading" and "premier," it may be appropriate to quote their doing so, but we do not use such language ourselves and we never copy such language from official websites. You can read WP:NPOV and WP:NOR for more information on these policies.

Finally, I need to make sure that you are aware of Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest requirements. Our guidelines on this are located at Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. One of the requirements is that if you receive compensation for these edits in any way, you must identify this through one of the methods described there.

I have temporarily protected the article after your restoration of the material I removed. Please be advised that it is essential that material you place in that article conform to our policies. If people persist in copying content from other sites after warning, we must lock their accounts from further access. You can read Wikipedia:Copyrights and Wikipedia:Copyright violations for more. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:49, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on my talk page.

Your company's website has the option to release its content under free license, but would need to follow one of the processes described at "donating copyrighted materials" to do so. I'm afraid that the neutrality issues remain - while you might be able to copy uncontroversial facts, we really can't use language like "leading" and "premier" and we cannot describe a project as "leveraging a global team to provide effective scalable capabilities." Whether something is "effective" and "scalable" is subjective and evaluative, and per our policies we can't say such things. Only reliable sources that are not connected to the organization can, and we have to have good reason to cite them - so "The New York Times described the program as "effective and scalable."

I definitely recommend that you read WP:COI and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations. Your employer needs to be aware of the limitations of what you can do and the best practices for resolving conflicts. And please do remember that you must disclose your paid affiliation with the article subject in one of the methods outlined there. I encourage great transparency to avoid future issues. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply! I completely understand everything you're saying. I will relay this information to our writers so that they can craft some neutral, non-promotional language.

Onionknight3 (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2016 (UTC)