Mia Varley

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Mia Varley, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Georgina Long 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. All other images must be made available under a free and open license that allows commercial and derivative reuse to be used on Wikipedia.
• 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 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 in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. — Diannaa (talk) 13:34, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Mia Varley. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Richard Scolyer, 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 or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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 WP:Spam);
• 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) 11:13, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Mia Varley. The above also applies to the article about Georgina Long. It appears from what you posted here on the user talk page of Diannaa that you are somehow connected to these two individuals and are editing on their behalf. If that's truly the case, then you would be considered to have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which means you shouldn't really be directly editing their respective articles yourself. In addition, depending upon the nature of your connection, you might even be considered to fall under Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. The template I added above contains links to Wikipedia pages related to both of these things; so, it would be a good idea for you to take the time to look at them so that you gain some understanding about the kinds of things Wikipedia expects from COI editors. You might also want to take a look at Wikipedia:Ownership of content and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia. If either Long or Scolyer have have concerns about the Wikipedia articles written about them, there are ways they can seek assistance; the articles, however, aren't written for their benefit per se and they have no final editorial control over article content. The same would apply to you if you're editing on their behalf. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask them below or seek help at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:27, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello Thank you for your guidance After looking at your feedback, and based on the fact that I work for the same organisation as Georgina and Richard, can you confirm that the best way to update their page is for me to: 1. propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (use the request edit template) - including citations which are not our company website 2. make my affiliation clear 3. provide evidence of ownership of images

Please confirm this is best approach Many thanks Mia Varley (talk) 6:18 pm, Today (UTC+9)

Hi again Mia Varley. I've moved the post you made on my user talk page here to your user talk page just to keep everything in one place. If you'd like to respond to my answers to your questions, please do so below my post. Now, with respect to your questions, this is what I think you best course action is.

If you want to make changes to the articles, you're best bet is to follow the guidance given in WP:COIADVICE and WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement. Except for some specific cases, you should try to avoid directly editing the articles yourself, and instead propose changes on their corresponding talk pages as explained in Wikipedia:Edit requests. You should use Template:Request edit (there are instructions on how to do so on the template's page) when you make such requests because this add the article to special category page of other articles where edit requests have been made. The editors who try to help out by answering edit requests work off this category page and it's pretty much the only way they will know that an edit request is being made unless they happen to stumble upon one by chance. These editors, like all Wikipedians, are WP:VOLUNTEERs and there tends more requests than volunteers answering them; so, there tends to be a bit of a backlog which might mean you will have to wait a bit for a response. The easier you make your request to understand, the easier it will be for someone to try and answer it. Simple requests like "Please change sentence 1 in the XYZ section to this" or "Please add this sentence to the ABC section" tend to be the easiest types of requests to answer, whereas extremely general requests like "Please rewrite the entire article/section" or requests which try ask to make lots of changes at once can be hard to figure out and often are declined as being too vague or too extensive of a change; so, it's better to make your requests as specific as possible, but also as brief as possible. You should also provide a citation for any changes that involve a claim or other type of statement that might not be totally obvious or otherwise not possibly contentious. Wikiepdia does prefer WP:SECONDARY sources be cited in most cases when dealing with content about living persons, but WP:PRIMARY sources are sometimes considered acceptable as explained in WP:BLPSELFPUB. If you know how to format a citation then great, but you should be OK as long as you can provide as much information about the citation as possible. Sources don't need to be available online as explained here and here, but it will make verification easier if they are particularly if it involves a pretty major claim. Another thing a good thing to do is to try not and make too many edit requests at once. It's best (in my opinion) to make one and wait until you receive a response before making another. Trying to do too much at once (even as separate requests) might make the talk page confusing and hard to figure out.

You should declare your connection to these two persons as explained in WP:DECLARECOI. There are various ways to do this, but the easiest way tends to be to simply do so on your user page. You can use Template:UserboxCOI to do this if you want. Please note that Wikipedia doesn't explicitly prohibit COI editing, but it's highly discouraged. You're not required to declare a COI per se per WP:COIEDIT, but it will make others want to help you if you do and it may help you avoid problems. Things are different, however, when it comes to paid or compensated editing and a failure to properly declare such a thing is considered to be a violation of Wikipedia's Terms of Use. Sometimes its not clear what constitutes "paid editing", but it doesn't only mean being compensated monetarily as explained here. If you're not sure one way or the other it might be best for you to ask at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. If you're considered a paid editor, you can use Template:Paid to declare your connection(s).

Regarding images, it depends on whether you're the copyright holder of the image in question. Generally with respect to photos, it's the person taking the photo (i.e. the photographer) who is considered to be the copyright holder; in some cases, there might be a copyright transfer agreement where the photographer transfers their copyright ownership to the subject or someone else (perhaps as a "work for hire" type of arrangement), but someone is almost always the copyright holder unless the photo is for some reason considered to be within the public domain. You can find out more about this at c:Commons:Licensing. If you're the copyright holder, take a look at c:Commons:OTRS#Licensing images: when do I contact OTRS?; if you're not, take a look at c:Commons:OTRS#If you are NOT the copyright holder. In the latter case, the copyright holder's WP:CONSENT is almost always going to need to be formally verified, and the tends to be done is by having the copyright holder send an email to Wikimedia OTRS.

I apologize for the length of my post. I tried to provide you with as much detail as possible, but perhaps I gave too much. If you've got any questions, please feel free to ask them below. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:18, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Commons file you uploaded

Please take a look at c:User talk:Mia Varley because their are some issues with the file File:Richard Scolyer.png you uploaded. Perhaps you can post there and help clarify things. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:30, 10 January 2021 (UTC)