Ck-2013

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File permission problem with File:Trevor Grieve WBC.png

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Orphaned non-free image File:Baseball Ontario Umpire Development Logo.jpg

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Ck-2013. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Baseball Ontario, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ––FormalDude talk 22:14, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

FormalDude I'm not sure how this is a conflict of interest to add factual information, logos, and information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ck-2013 (talk • contribs) 22:46, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

You are uploading images of employees and claiming to be the copyright owner of said images. Clearly you have a conflict of interest if that is true. ––FormalDude talk 22:57, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ––FormalDude talk 23:01, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

FormalDude In actual fact, Baseball Ontario's employees were not posted, they were photos of the volunteers. I am a volunteer with knowledge of the organization and created the material making myself the creator. I'll refrain from editing on Wikipedia moving forward. Clearly your rules are too convoluted to allow factual information to be posted, you'd rather people with no actual knowledge of the organization to post information and/or leave old outdated information on the encyclopedia (which frankly is worse). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ck-2013 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Being a volunteer of the organization is still a conflict of interest. ––FormalDude talk 23:25, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

FormalDude So then how does Wikipedia get factual information about an organization? Nothing in my posts was promotional or advertising. They were photographs of the volunteers. They were images of the logos of the organization. They were updates on award winners. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'd actually like to know how you suggest that Wikipedia can ensure a not-for-profit youth sport organization can keep a Wikipedia page up to date unless editors have knowledge of the organization?

Take a look at WP:ORGIND, our guideline on independent sources for organizations. Reliable and independent sources are requirement, not an option. Wikipedia does not need a gallery of images of the members of the board, that is unencyclopedic. There's nothing to suggest these awards are notable, or even that the article is notable. There's basically no independent secondary coverage to prove notability. I would be well within my right to nominate this article for deletion, but I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and allow others to see if there's any sources they can find that can turn the article around. ––FormalDude talk 23:42, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising, as you did at Baseball Ontario. Tame (talk) 10:58, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:OBA Umpire.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:OBA Umpire.jpg

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