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Wikipedia and copyright
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Hello Fangorsangel! Your additions to Peter Krasinski 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, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. C F A 💬 18:44, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, I have received permission from Mr. Krasinski to use the information from his bio page on www.Krasinski.org in its entirety for this project. I also know the photographer Mr. Levasseur who took the photo of him personally and he is also fine with me using the photo, as is Mr. Krasinski. I will inform them both of the procedures to request copyright release… I see it is this form? https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Wikimedia_VRT_release_generator&uselang=en&useskin=minerva&withJS=MediaWiki%3ARelgen.js Fangorsangel (talk) 02:11, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- I have sent the form to Mr. Levasseur who originally took this photo to email the release and attachment to the VRT. Just as additional information and context, I also had personally uploaded the photo in question to Mr. Krasinski's IMDb from his own computer, along with typing and editing the majority of the text on that IMDb page, for use in Mr. Krasinski's bio page on there, at his request as he had recently been given membership to SAG after his acting role in The Holdovers. He is also very notable and well-known within the pipe organ community. I do not know if I need additional permission to use the biography that is meant for public use on Mr. Krasinski's own web page (www.krasinski.org), which is also a downloadable file for there meant for press releases. So hopefully this issue can be resolved and my edits can be restored in entirety very soon. Fangorsangel (talk) 09:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- If I need to show additional proof that the bio text has permission to be used by Mr. Krasinski in full, please inform me of what it is needed to be done or where to send that to so that using the text is not an issue. The bio itself, which is on www.krasinski.org and is meant for use for the public and press releases, already contains short quotes from press reviews/critics from elsewhere, but does not have citations, which is what I was attempting to add. I could indicate the additional references on the text once it is restored and I can add inline citations specifically in the text--if there is a certain format that needs to be used for inline citations, perhaps in parentheses stating the material comes from www.krasinski.org, vs. superscripts to the reference page. I had added references to each of the quotations in the bio as well. The link to the bio page is also in the references list that was removed.
- Anyway, it is a disservice to the public that the information is not available, and for posterity, if this is not able to be addressed. Fangorsangel (talk) 09:27, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Mr. Levasseur uploaded the file to Wikimedia with free rights.
- [[File:Peter Krasinski at Methuen Memorial Music Hall.jpg|thumb|Peter Krasinski at Methuen Memorial Music Hall]]
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Krasinski_at_Methuen_Memorial_Music_Hall.jpg
- [[File:Peter Krasinski-Color.jpg|thumb|Peter Krasinski Publicity Headshot]]
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Krasinski-Color.jpg
- Please let me know if there is anything further that should be done to the text once the contributions are restored to point to the freely available bio text and its sources, or if anything else needs to be done. Thank you! Fangorsangel (talk) 12:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- I have sent the form to Mr. Levasseur who originally took this photo to email the release and attachment to the VRT. Just as additional information and context, I also had personally uploaded the photo in question to Mr. Krasinski's IMDb from his own computer, along with typing and editing the majority of the text on that IMDb page, for use in Mr. Krasinski's bio page on there, at his request as he had recently been given membership to SAG after his acting role in The Holdovers. He is also very notable and well-known within the pipe organ community. I do not know if I need additional permission to use the biography that is meant for public use on Mr. Krasinski's own web page (www.krasinski.org), which is also a downloadable file for there meant for press releases. So hopefully this issue can be resolved and my edits can be restored in entirety very soon. Fangorsangel (talk) 09:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Fangorsangel. 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 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:
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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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)