User talk:Ambproduction
June 2024
Hello, I'm LakesideMiners. I wanted to let you know that one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Aidan Browne—has been undone because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thank you. LakesideMinersCome Talk To Me! 19:51, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Ambproduction. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Aidan Browne, 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 article subjects 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)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
- 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. Secretlondon (talk) 20:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there, I am trying to create a page for an actor. Could you provide some help? Ambproduction (talk) 20:06, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
- You've tried to take over the article of someone with the same name. We don't like people writing about themselves/their employers. You need to find third party sources that establish their notability. Start in your sandbox. Secretlondon (talk) 20:10, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Copyright, notability and conflict of interest
Thank you for your contributions. It appears that you have created or edited an article about a person, possibly yourself. However, the following problems exist with your submission:
- You attempted to overwrite an existing article with a completely different or new topic. This is called article hijacking and isn't permitted. Wikipedia has methods of handling separate subjects with similar names, referred to as disambiguation.
- You cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia - even if you are the copyright holder, or have the copyright holder's permission - unless the material has been released for use by the verified copyright owner into the public domain or under a license compatible with Wikipedia. These licenses allow anyone — not just Wikipedia — to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, free of charge and in perpetuity, provided that you are attributed as the author. Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use. Releasing the material is both permanent and irrevocable.
- Wikipedia requires that persons meet its notability criteria to be deemed worthy of inclusion. It means this person has to have already been the subject of significant coverage by multiple sources that are both reliable and independent of the person himself. Self-authored sources (such as press releases, interviews and social media) are defined as self-published and therefore not reliable. Wikipedia:Perennial sources is a good place to find out which sources are deemed reliable and which are not.
- If you have a personal or professional involvement with the person you are writing about, then you have a conflict of interest (COI). COI editors are not prohibited from contributing, but are highly discouraged to do so, due to the inherent difficulty of writing from the required neutral point of view. If you are the person that you are writing about, then you should not do so, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. Please note that writing with the intention to promote or publicize anything or anyone is strictly prohibited. In addition, if you are being paid directly or indirectly to write about a subject on Wikipedia, then you must disclose this information per Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing policy.
I'm sorry that this message was not more favourable. If you require more assistance, please consult the Help Desk or the Teahouse for new editors. Thank you for your cooperation, and best of luck with your future edits. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)