User talk:Kimberleysanders

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Hello, Kimberleysanders, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits, such as the ones to the page Manning G. Warren III, show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

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Replaceable non-free use File:Manning Warren black and white headshot.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Manning Warren black and white headshot.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of non-free use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of non-free use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the file description page and add the text {{Di-replaceable non-free use disputed|<your reason>}} below the original replaceable non-free use template, replacing <your reason> with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.
2. On the file discussion page, write a full explanation of why you believe the file is not replaceable.

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Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Kimberleysanders. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Manning G. Warren III, 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;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
• 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. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:47, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello!

Bless, somebody finally found the red flags I was leaving everywhere. I was wondering if anyone ever would.

I'm only too aware of the policies around bios of living persons and conflicts of interest. I would have loved to avoid editing that article per the instructions, but the subject of the article made it very much part of my job duties, and he isn't interested in the Wikipedia terms of service. Basically someone edited the page a few years ago and took out a bunch of stuff (merited) and he lost his mind and made me put everything back in and "lock his page down" and make sure nobody else could make any changes to it. I told him that wasn't really possible, but again, he wasn't interested. He actively monitored the page to make sure I was making the changes he wanted in a speedy fashion, and so I left some little notes around about "not making changes to the page" and worded them in such a way that I hoped someone would eventually figure out that the whole thing was one big content violation.

It would honestly please me to no end if the entire page went up in smoke. He's not a public figure and he doesn't need a page - I'm 99% sure one of his previous assistants or a student made it for him on his orders. I also know that photo is in violation. I tried to explain that to him but he tried to tell me that he owns the photo and is the subject and therefore owns the copyright.

All I can say is I no longer work for him so I am no longer in charge of maintaining his page and will not be doing so. This isn't even my main Wikipedia account - I created it solely for this. Any changes that are made in the future will be done by him or a relative or someone in his employ - I cannot stress enough how much of a non-public figure he is. More power to you with whatever you want to do, but anything I did with this was under specific instruction and consistent annoyance. I did what I could to call it to someone's attention without outright refusing to follow orders (funny, but not the hill I wanted to die on) or directly reporting it (still risky).

My life advice: Don't work for lawyers. Kim S. (talk) 20:34, 27 September 2023 (UTC)