User talk:Markmh
Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:36, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Malthouse Engineering
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A tag has been placed on Malthouse Engineering requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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This is your last warning; the next time you create an inappropriate page, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- Hi, Mark. Thanks for asking. Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems. First is the conflict of interest. Second is the copyright issue. It is possible to release the content to the site, but you'd have to do it in writing. That in turn releases your content to the public domain, voiding your original copyright. So...to wrtie about the company, you should start fresh with neutral, non-promotional content backed by third-party references like industry magazines, for instance. I hope this helps and please feel free to ask for help. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:53, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Excellent questions. Please don't worry about being blocked for any edit done in good faith. The templates tend to be a bit harsh since we get a tremendous amount of real bad faith spamming. Since we have a dialogue, you have nothing to worry about. Yes, please do reference back to your own site and as many trade publications as you can. As far as creating an article beforehand, you can do that via a user subpage. Click on User:Markmh/Malthouse Engineering and you can work on new copy at your leisure without fear of deletion. Relax, have fun and welcome to the project. :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 16:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
The correct message (orphaned fair use) is below. |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Thank you for uploading File:6 Head Cutting.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Eeekster (talk) 19:43, 30 March 2011 (UTC) |
Welcome
[edit]Hello, Markmh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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 reverted for this very reason.
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Orphaned non-free image File:6 Head Cutting.JPG
[edit]Thanks for uploading File:6 Head Cutting.JPG. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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