AH69

This is a great image! I tried to reposition, but it posts too large and causes the header to go out of position. If the author can reduce and reload as a smaller image it should work well. The image is very relevant to the associated text.

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Hello, AH69, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Jeremy112233 - how do I reference the full video without it becoming spam? The video does not play clearly on Wikipedia. I created a shorten version as you can see. Any help/suggestions appreciated. AH69 (talk) 15:25, 25 April 2014 (UTC)AH69

You cannot add a company video to Wikipedia period--that is spam. If you donate a video that does not reference your company whatsoever to the public domain, then it could be added without an advertorial effect. Right now your video literally writes the name of the company underneath the topic of the video in the first frame. That kind of blatant advertising is unfortunately never allowed on Wikipedia. That said, if you know of a video that does not reference a company and purely discusses the subject matter in an independent matter, that could be added instead. Jeremy112233 15:36, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The video also ends with the company website. Clearly an ad. Jeremy112233 15:38, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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Jeremy112233 - this is excellent, thank you - I've been trying to clearly understand the rules. Question, can I create a reference to the video in the footnotes? My concern of posting the full version without credits is my competition will use it for their own marketing purposes. What I posted on Wikipedia is a shorten version that I am fine contributing to creative commons. What you are saying is I need to strip it off all commercial references and resubmit? Is it possible to perhaps submit the full length version without given permission for its full free use?

That is the trick - if you want it used on Wikipedia, that means anyone can use it as well - including your competition. There is a public domain license you can use that requires any user to accredit the creator of the work, however the work would still be open to commercial use by any party. That's the thing with public domain. If you want to submit a shortened version stripped of company references, you can upload it directly to Wikipedia and imbed it into the Wikipedia page, so an external link wouldn't be necessary. You can be credited, though credit under a company name would likely be considered spam. Better to credit the actual producer of the video. Jeremy112233 16:45, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Second warning

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Jeremy112233 15:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

You cannot add company videos to Wikipedia. They are not what Wikipedia refers to as WP:RS sources, and constitute spamming when added in multiple places. Jeremy112233 15:22, 25 April 2014 (UTC)