User talk:Xhenis.behluli

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Xhenis.behluli! Your additions to Universum College have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• 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. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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. DanCherek (talk) 13:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Hello Xhenis.behluli. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Universum College, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Xhenis.behluli. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Xhenis.behluli|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. DanCherek (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello DanCherek,

All edits, content for the Universum College (wikipedia page) are taken from the official site of Universum College and written Universum College documentation. There is no COI as all edits are objective, statistical and original for the university. I work at the University and it was an assigned task to me to add missing info the the page. Please guide me how can the Universum College (wikipedia) page be returned to to my edits and have no copyright issues. Xhenis.behluli (talk) 14:18, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Xhenis. There are a few issues here. First and foremost, since you have been editing the article of your employer, please read WP:Conflict of interest#Paid editors and provide the proper disclosure as required by Wikipedia's policies, and note that paid editors are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly, but may propose changes on talk pages by using the {{request edit}} template so that they can be peer reviewed.

Previously published content may be released by the copyright owner into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license by following the instructions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. I will point out, however, that Wikipedia is primarily interested in what reliable, independent, secondary sources have to say about a particular subject, not what it says about itself. For that reason, basing most of an article on the institution's own website isn't appropriate either. Hope that helps. DanCherek (talk) 20:23, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Dear Dan,

Could you kindly guide me exactly how to be registered as a paid editor on the user page as I can't find an option. Will written and signed permission by the institute's legal office allow the content to be displayed/returned. The college is from a small country where there are many other institutes so all secondary content are 1 short articles about something specific or unreliable. Unfortunately if the information on the page has to be reliable the content has to be taken from the official Universum College page. I hope we can arrange to fix this. Xhenis.behluli (talk) 13:59, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

You can add the following template to your user page: {{paid|user=Xhenis.behluli|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Sorry, but I don't think that material would be appropriate for the article even if it was compatibly licensed. A Wikipedia article is meant to summarise what reliable sources have written about something, not a place for the university to talk about itself, and the text on the university's website is written quite promotionally anyway. DanCherek (talk) 16:20, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

If I lighten the content to be less promotional and change the text so it doesn't appear too copy/pasted, would that work? What else would it be needed since the page on wikipedia to be reliable, needs to be updated. Xhenis.behluli (talk) 08:49, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

I do not recommend editing the article directly; editors with a conflict of interest often find it difficult to write in a neutral and verifiable manner and it can be frustrating to see your changes reverted. Instead, I suggest proposing the changes you'd like to make on the talk page (you may find the Edit Request Wizard helpful), and you'll find the most success if you make it clear what you want to change and supply reliable sources to support the change. DanCherek (talk) 20:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)