Alumzsh

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December 2015

Your addition to Jack London (businessman) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. The material you're using would be inappropriate even if it weren't violation of copyright; it's hype-filled and inappropriately sourced, as the company's website is not a third-party source for the head of the company. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:25, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Jack London (businessman) shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:50, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Alumzsh. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Jack London (businessman), you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
• instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Your statement on my user page is basically a statement of conflict of interest. Nat Gertler (talk) 20:56, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Alumzsh. You have new messages at NatGertler's talk page.
Message added 21:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Nat Gertler (talk) 21:07, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Article Ownership

You wrote, about Jack London (businessman) "This entry is authorized by and maintained on behalf on the subject." No, it isn't. Read the article ownership policy. Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view, and conflict of interest editing is strongly discouraged. You may have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is and how Wikipedia works. If you continue to try to assert control or ownership of articles, you may be blocked from editing. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:38, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

How you can get Jack London (businessman) expanded

I understand your frustration at not being able to shape Jack London (businessman) as you would like, particularly if you have a boss who is asking you to do just that. Many novice Wikipedia editors get frustrated when they discover that Wikipedia does not work the way that they assumed it would. However, you should recognize that every editor who has commented on your edits has found them problematic, and that maybe the more appropriate response is to understand the system and learn to work within it.

Given the particular problems that you've been having, I'm going to recommend in particular that you review:

• Our guidelines on editing when you have a conflict of interest
• Our guidelines on what we consider to be reliable sources
• Our guide to donating copyrighted materials
• Our denial of editors claiming control over articles

For a quick summary of how you can see to the expansion of the article, you'll be on much more solid ground if you:

• avoid editing the article directly, and instead put suggested additions on the article's talk page, for some other editor to include in the page itself.
• use reliable, third-party sources (note: this does not include his company's website or his autobiography) for any claims, particularly those that could seen as boastful, aggrandizing, or unlikely.
• go through the proper procedures to donate any copyrighted materials to which you own the copyright, have the subject or his company donate any copyright ed materials (such as photos) to which they hold the copyrights, and avoid reproducing copyrighted materials where the copyright may be held by someone else.

If you have any questions, you can let me know. Suggestions or questions specifically about the content of the article may be best placed on the talk page for the article, so that other interested editors may see them. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

All of your points were taken into consideration prior to expanding this entry initially in 2013. Copyrights and COIs were also duly considered. All information are straightforward facts with no aggrandizement. (FYI - Corporate bios are often used as sources in Wiki entries, as are biographies - which is not applicable here). If there was any part of this entry that concerned you or anyone else, questions could have been left on the talk page. You could have perhaps found (or suggested) alternative sources for this information to resolve your concerns. However, you and others have not done so. Instead you deleted virtually the entire entry. Hopefully you can see why we take issue with this. I would be happy to answer your questions or discuss conflicting information that you may find.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alumzsh (talk • contribs) 17:26, 27 January 2016‎ (UTC)

Hi Alumzsh. Thanks for replying to Nat above. It is good to see that you are starting to understand a bit about how Wikipedia works - you have given up your efforts to claim that the company (or you) in any way "owns" the article about your CEO. Thanks too for disclosing that you work for CACI. If you intend to keep working in Wikipedia, there is other stuff that you are obligated to do per our Terms of Use, and some other stuff that you should do with regard to your COI, and some things you definitely need to learn in order to be efficient in getting things done here. I would be willing to teach you, if you like. Others are as well -- Nat has been trying been very hard to tell you how things work here. In any case, reply here if you would like some help understanding how Wikipedia works. (by the way, as you can see we thread comments while talking - you do that by putting a colon - : - in front of your comment, and the Wikipedia software converts that into an indentation. Two colons create two tabs, etc, and when that gets silly we "outdent" back to the margin by putting {{od}} in front a comment, like this

- like that. Also please "sign" your comments by typing four tildas at the end, like this ~~~~. The Wikipedia software converts that into a links to your userpage and talk page (this page) and a date stamp - which we call a "signature". You see these on every comment on every talk page. It is how we know who said what. Anyway, you can reply here, if you want to learn more. -- Jytdog (talk) 00:20, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 21:24, 27 January 2016 (UTC)