User talk:Primepr01

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Primepr01, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Lucinda Coxon, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia
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How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! GermanJoe (talk) 05:09, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Lucinda Coxon at The Danish Girl LA Premiere.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading File:Lucinda Coxon at The Danish Girl LA Premiere.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 05:13, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lucinda Coxon[edit]

Hello Primepr01, thank you for your contributions. There have been several problems with the added content though. If you are connected to the writer or paid to edit her article, you need to disclose that "conflict of interest" and follow Wikipedia's WP:COI guideline. Additions should also be phrased in a neutral and uninvolved tone - promotional WP:PEACOCK terms are frowned upon. The article should also not refer to the topic with her first name, or describe information from her personal PoV. For help on referencing please see WP:referencing for beginners, which provides some basic information - references to reliable sources should be put directly after the verified statements. And lastly image uploads: you can upload images from other copyright owners to Commons, but you'll have to follow the process outlined at Commons:Commons:OTRS to verify the permission for unrestricted usage via mail from the copyright owner. Hope that information is helpful to get you started. Please see also the links in the above welcome message, which will contain more useful information. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 05:25, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Primepr01. 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. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:22, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Several issues[edit]

Hi Sam. Thanks for disclosing here that you work for a PR agency. There are several issues that you need to deal with. I'll try to help you with that, and will open a couple of sections below on two of them.

But for now, please read the following: Wikipedia:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms, and please read WP:COI, and WP:PAID.

You should also be aware, that there is a long and difficult history of paid editing in Wikipedia. You can read the highlights/lowlights in our article: Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia.

As a result of that history, there is a chunk of the community here that is fiercely opposed to the presence of paid editors, and you should be ready to experience some hostility. I am sorry about that, but that it is how it is.

There is a place for paid editors in the community, but you need to behave very ethically, and follow Wikipedia's policies and guidelines closely. There is a bunch to learn, but you have started out on a good foot by asking questions.

Anyway, more to follow. If you are cooperative and open to this, I can help you get oriented.... Jytdog (talk) 20:22, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Issue 1 - Username violation[edit]

Hi Sam. Your username violates our username policy. I suggest you change it to something like "Sam at PrimePR" so that it is very clear that the account is used by one person, and is not a company account, which is not allowed here. The relevant part of the policy is here WP:ISU if you want to verify what I am saying. The place to ask for your username to be changed is here. Please take care of that, asap. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:26, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your message at Wikipedia:Help desk[edit]

You have completely misunderstood Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia, not a promotional platform. Articles are public, not proprietary. Working for someone with a Wikipedia article does not put you in a position to require "permission" from anyone. Being someone with a Wikipedia article does not put you in such a position either. If there's anyone here that shouldn't be editing the articles, it's you and the people you work for. JIP | Talk 20:28, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Issue 2 - disclosure[edit]

OK, so here is the second thing you may need to fix. You have edited four articles:

Per the Terms of Use, you must disclose if you edited any of those articles as part of your PR work. Would you please let me know here, and I can help you make the proper disclosures, where they need to go? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 23:18, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]