User talk:AndreaKLien

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Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello AndreaKLien, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Lavender (magazine) has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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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. RA0808 ^talk _contribs 18:44, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright talkback for RA0808[edit]

Hello, RA0808.

My name is Andy Lien and I'm Managing Editor of Lavender Magazine.

I am adding content to our entry, Lavender (magazine), and it was removed because of perceived copyright issues. I've received two emails about it from you and agree that it would be a copyright infringement if I weren't acting on behalf of both the editor of the magazine adding content directly from the magazine's website. Is there a way for my additions and changes to the page to be accepted as not using copyrighted material in an out of bounds way? It's our material. So, I've got permission. :)

It's my first day as someone who contributes to Wikipedia. I honestly am figuring all of this out as I go and don't know if my messages are being seen, but am hopeful I'm putting one foot in front of the other correctly.

Please let me know how I can avoid this hangup in the future as I'm going to add more content to our page, which will also likely come directly from our website.

Many thanks,

Andy

Andrea Lien Managing Editor Lavender Magazine also available at andy@lavendermagazine.com

AndreaKLien (talk) 19:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Andy, and welcome to Wiki!

It's great that you want to improve the content on the Lavender page so that it is more complete and up-to-date, however I have to let you know that Wikipedia has rules regarding conflicts of interest (click the link to read). Because of your connection to the magazine it means that you have a conflict of interest in editing that article. Because of this it is generally recommended that you don't edit the article directly but instead request changes at the article's talk page (Talk:Lavender (magazine)) using the {{request edit}} template: You can be as detailed as you like (even just write your proposed edit directly), and another editor will approve and make the change for you ensuring that everything remains nice and neutral! Please note that before you request changes you are required to declare your conflict of interest (click the link for explanations on how to do that).

Now this next part is very important. You are the Managing Editor, and therefore these edits could be conceivably be connected to your job. The Terms of Use of Wikipedia's parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), require that users of Wikipedia and all other WMF projects "must disclose [their] employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which [they] receive, or expect to receive, compensation". This is a very serious policy so you should review Wikipedia's legal policy on paid-contribution disclosure and ensure that you follow it.

That might seem like a lot but please don't let this scare you off from editing, your requested edits to the Lavender page will still help improve it and you are also 100% free to edit elsewhere on Wiki (no requesting or declaring required)!

Since you work for the copyright holder (in this case, the magazine) you or another representative of the magazine can "donate" copyrighted material from the magazine's website or articles to Wikipedia, allowing them to be used freely. The procedure for how to donate text can be found at WP:CONSENT and the procedure to donate images can be found at here on Wikimedia Commons. Just be aware that any material in a Wikipedia article is subject to continuous editing by the Wikipedia community: it may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. The same applies to images

For any other questions you can find plenty of information in Wikipedia's help pages, and there are always friendly editors at the Wikipedia Teahouse willing to answer questions and help you integrate into the community here. Also you can drop me a message on my talk page. Cheers! RA0808 ^talk _contribs 21:16, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]