Clotse

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Valérie Belin, 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.

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August 2021

Hello, I'm Arms & Hearts. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Valérie Belin, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Arms & Hearts, thank you for your message. I think you made a mistake. I can add reliable sources to confirm informations presented. As for the list of photographie series I don’t understand how it can be identified as copyright infringment? I’m going to read the rules on how to write about living people to help me, but if it could be possible to give me acces to my text back it would be very helpfull. Clotse (talk) 07:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Clotse. Thanks for getting back to me on this. There are a few different points to address here:

First, and most importantly, please make sure you've read the message above (under the header "Welcome!"). If you work for or with Valérie Belin (for example, for a gallery that represents her) you have a conflict of interest and are expected to refrain from editing the article directly. Instead of editing the article directly, you're encouraged to make specific proposals for any changes on the article talk page (Talk:Valérie Belin). If you have a conflict of interest you also need to disclose that so it's clear to other editors. For a guide to how to do this, see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI.

Second, read Wikipedia:Verifiability, which is one of our most fundamental policies. In a nutshell, it means that claims you add to an article need to be supported by citations to reliable sources. It isn't enough that the sources exist – they have to be in the article, otherwise the claims are very likely to be removed. The same applies if you have a conflict of interest and are suggesting changes at the talk page: edits are unlikely to be made unless they're supported by reliable sources.

Third, your edits yesterday weren't identified as copyright infringement, though other edits you made in June were, as the material you added was copied and pasted from Belin's website. It isn't possible to restore text that infringes copyright, but you can access your other edits via the article history or your contributions.

I hope this clears things up somewhat. As I mentioned above, the first point about a conflict of interest is the first thing to address here. Let me know here or at my talk page (one or the other, no need to post at both) if there are any other points I can clarify. All the best, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)