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File permission problem with File:Public Wealth of Nations book image for PWoN listing.jpg[edit]

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Please do not mark your edits as "minor" unless they truly are minor typo or grammatical corrections only[edit]

Information icon Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Dag Detter, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Melcous (talk) 00:00, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Stefan Folster.jpeg[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Public Commercial Assets[edit]

Hello Hollyeighteen,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Public Commercial Assets for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Killer Moff (talk) 13:47, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Concerns on the articles you've been making[edit]

I've looked at two articles that you've recently created, The Public Wealth of Nations and Public Commercial Assets, and noticed that they consist primarily of material that's been copied and pasted from other, copyrighted sources. This is problematic due to American copyright laws, and is apt to lead to at least large portions of that material being removed from the article, and quite possible the deletion of the article as a whole. (I suggest you review our essay on copying text from other sources.) In addition, your source for large chunks of The Public Wealth of Nations seems to have been the promotional website for that book, which should also be a red flag for you; the goal of Wikipedia (to provide neutral information) and of a promotional page are profoundly different. Wikipedia is not here to hype the material. I appreciate your desire to expand Wikipedia, and hope that we can find ways where you're not putting effort in on material that will be quickly removed or deleted. --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:27, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on File:Dag Detter 2.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the file appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted content borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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File:Personal photo of Dag Detter.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Personal photo of Dag Detter.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 21:53, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Holly: you state on my talk page that the photo "doesn't have any rights attached", but under modern copyright law, rights exist in the work from the moment of creation and need to be specifically ceded. As reproducing copyrighted work can had legal implications, I'm sure you can understand that we need something more than a you-say-Dag-said-his-partner-said-it-was-okay permission (and, frankly, this becomes even more of a concern given the false claim of copyright in the BBC frame capture and the false claim that Dag was the creator of the image in the current photo.) The best way to handle this is to have the partner themselves upload the file onto either Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons (which may be easier to navigate if the person does not speak English), where they can accurately claim that the photo is their own work.
Having said that: your edits on Wikipedia seem to be focused on this one book and its authors, have a promotional tone to them, and you appear to be in direct contact with one of the subjects. I recommend that you review our guidelines on conflict-of-interest editing, consider whether you have the sort of conflict described there, and if so, a) announce that conflict and b) start editing in the appropriate manner indicated by those guidelines.
Thanks for your time and effort! --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Information icon Hello, Hollyeighteen. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 19:38, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Dag Detter.jpeg[edit]

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This also applies to:

Thanks Diannaa, I've actually submitted permissions several times to the email you mentioned but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. Do you have any suggestions, I'm not sure what else to do but full permissions have been emailed to the email address by the owner. I would really appreciate your help if you can guide me a little? Hollyeighteen

Just in case Diannaa is not watching this talk page: Hollyeighteen, if you have submitted valid permission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, you should add the template {{OTRS pending}} to the file pages of each image mentioned in the email. This alerts both other users and OTRS admins to the pending status, and can avoid repeated deletion attempts. There is likely a backlog, as OTRS (just like Wikipedia) is a volunteer system, but you should receive a confirmation within a few days, and a request for more info if needed. --Animalparty! (talk) 01:58, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've added the OTRS pending tag to all these images. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:45, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Diannaa and Animalparty, I'm still learning but I really appreciate your help! --Hollyeighteen (talk) 09:33, 21 November 2016 (GMT)

Legatum Institute[edit]

Holly:

I saw you object to the Legatum Institute link on the Dag Detter page, saying that it was not the right Legatum. Looking at the website you linked to and the fullness of the Legatum wikipage, it appears that it is the same group; the firm in Abu Dabai funds the institute, and the Institute and its works are covered lower on the firm's page. If you have some indication that all those indicators are wrong, please post them on the Talk:Dag Detter page. --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:14, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:BNP Paribas Sweden Reform Doc.pdf[edit]

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File permission problem with File:FT November 12 1999.pdf[edit]

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File permission problem with File:High Net Worth Collectives Data.jpg[edit]

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File permission problem with File:Privatisation International Dec 2000.pdf[edit]

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File permission problem with File:Public Asset Management Data.jpg[edit]

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The file File:Assets segments Public Commercial Assets.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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A tag has been placed on Public wealth of cities, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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The article Public wealth of cities has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Notability. This is a promo article sourced to things that predate the book, an article written by the authors of the book, an article written by an author in the pay of the publisher of the book, and the Financial Times article, which is not about the book but has a sentence referencing it and a few sentences that may be derived from it well into the article.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Nat Gertler (talk) 15:24, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hollyeighteen (talk) 08:54, 6 September 2017 (UTC)Hi Nat, thanks for bringing the more promotional aspects in my piece to my attention, I have made some significant changes. I have been writing the article based somewhat on the page for why nations fail and I'm not sure I see the difference between how that article is occasionally promotional, and my text which i have been trying hard to make as un promotional as possible. Would you be able to point me in the right direction please? Any thoughts appreciated...Hollyeighteen 09:53, 6 September 2017 (UTC)Hollyeighteen (talk) 08:54, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Holly, here is one first step for avoiding inserting promotional material into book articles: don't copy and paste the publisher's sales materials into an article. Sales materials are intended to promote the book. In addition, copying such matter is also generally a copyright violation, forbidden on Wikipedia. Given to your history of editing, which is basically exclusively built around these two authors and their works, perhaps you should be asking yourself whether your goal in editing here is to serve Wikipedia, or if your intent is promotional.
Please review our guidelines in editing when you have a conflict of interest. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:22, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem: Public wealth of cities[edit]

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Conflict of Interest[edit]

One or more persons with “an undisclosed connection to” Stefan Fölster and Dag Detter are editing the articles about these two people, their book The Public Wealth of Nations, and other articles associated with their work. This is an “apparent COI”. The person or persons are using the accounts Hollyeighteen, Sakakawean, Tigerinthesmoke, and Timeforteapet. As a sanction against this person or persons, I shall

  1. Post this notice on the talk pages of the most important affected articles.
  2. Post a notice on WP:COIN.
  3. Delete most of the contents of these articles, since the users mentioned above use Wikipedia to promote two people and their work in clear breach of rules pertaining to COI.

Min hemliga identitet (talk) 12:44, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Min hemliga identitet (talkcontribs) 10:28, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation[edit]

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hollyeighteen, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented his evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community. Min hemliga identitet (talk) 08:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]