User talk:Ellenbdickstein

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January 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Guy Finley has been reverted.
Your edit here to Guy Finley was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guy-Finley/2609224340633/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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June 2023

Your edit to Guy Finley has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. CandyScythe (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. CandyScythe (talk) 15:59, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello CandyScythe. Sorry for the confusion. I work closely with Guy Finley. I'm even the co-author on one of his books, and I do pretty much all of the writing of the web pages on his site - all with his approval. I am well familiar with his history and his work as I've studied with him for many years. So I did write what I sent, and actually rewrote it a bit as needed to fit your different categories. Some of what I submitted to you is on the website in some form, but some of it comes from information I've written for our press kits and to go along with articles Guy has written. But when you asked for the source of my material, I didn't know if it was sufficient to just say myself, so I thought it would be better to cite the website. Obviously I was wrong. If you could direct me as to how best to do this, I would appreciate it, as Guy's Wikipedia page needs updating. Ellenbdickstein (talk) 17:38, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials

The other option is that you don't copy (or closely paraphrase) anything, but write it in your own words. CandyScythe (talk) 19:07, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for all this information. I will have to digest it all and figure out how to proceed. Looking at the information on managing a conflict of interest, are you saying that only people who have no connection to the subject can edit the profile? Can't I just add objective facts to update what's there? If I do that, and simply rewrite everything I added, would that be okay? Ellenbdickstein (talk) 19:26, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

It's "strongly discouraged". You are instead encouraged to use the {{request edit}} template to propose changes to the article. CandyScythe (talk) 19:39, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for this. I will go in this direction. Ellenbdickstein (talk) 19:44, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ellenbdickstein. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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, clients, or competitors;
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• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. CandyScythe (talk) 19:07, 1 June 2023 (UTC)