MarcD2010

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January 2010

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Gwen Shamblin. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Please discuss this with the other user on the article's talk page instead of edit warring. ThemFromSpace 17:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. — Kralizec! (talk) 18:32, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

June 2011

You seem to have issues editing Gwen Shamblin. I recommend you refrain from editing that article, or you may be blocked from editing again. LHM 03:58, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Gwen with Grandchildren 2009.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Gwen with Grandchildren 2009.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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We need to verify permission for File:Gwen with Children and their Spouses and Grandchildren 2008.jpg as well. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 20:41, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the note. Per your request, both the photos and text content used for the Gwen Shamblin wikipedia page have been given the rights for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported license and the GNU Free Documentation License. They have added the necessary release on Mrs. Shamblin's bio page at http://www.remnantfellowship.org/4ABOUTTHELEADERS/GwenShamblin.aspx. Also, I hope it was okay, I added back in some of the text content that was under copyright evaluation as they freed that up as well under CC-By-SA 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation License.

Thank you. :) From a copyright standpoint, that is just fine, although a contributor tells me that he is concerned about the neutrality of the content. It may be evaluated by other members of the community and modified if necessary to meet particularly neutrality policy and the prohibition against original research. Content published on the website of an individual or organized connected to an article's subject is understandably not always going to be written from a Wikipedia perspective, so it is not unusual for such content to be evaluated after clearance. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:16, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Just a quick follow-up and I can post this on the Discussion page for Gwen Shamblin, but it appears a person has created a new wiki account simply to post negative references to Gwen Shamblin. This appears to violate the neutral point of view policy.

File permission problem with File:Gwen with Children and their Spouses and Grandchildren 2008.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Gwen with Children and their Spouses and Grandchildren 2008.jpg, which you've sourced to Apparently yje subject of the photo is the source, not the uploader. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 13:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for checking, the photo resides on the Remnant Fellowship Website at the following address: http://www.remnantfellowship.org/4ABOUTTHELEADERS/GwenShamblin.aspx and they have provided the following text on the page for reuse by CC-BY-SA - "The text and photos on this page of this website are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License". Do I need to add this information on Wikimedia stating as such or is the information on their website sufficient for the requirements?

File permission problem with File:Gwen with Grandchildren 2009.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Gwen with Grandchildren 2009.jpg, which you've sourced to Apparently the subject of the photo is the source, not the uploader. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ukexpat (talk) 13:55, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

This photo also resides on the Remnant Fellowship Website at the same address as above: http://www.remnantfellowship.org/4ABOUTTHELEADERS/GwenShamblin.aspx and they have provided the following text on the page for reuse by CC-BY-SA - "The text and photos on this page of this website are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License". Do I need to add this information on Wikimedia stating as such or is the information on their website sufficient for the requirements?

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ukexpat (talk) 15:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, MarcD2010, 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 undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Spitfire19 ^T/_C 03:24, 25 April 2013 (UTC)