DNS041123

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April 2023

Your edit to John Hildebrand has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 22:03, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Diannaa. Please be more specific as to what copyrighted material was added. The subject of this article was informed of the Wiki copyright policy, he apologized for the oversight and we created an entirely original document to replace the edits/additions that you flagged earlier. Thank you. DNS041123 (talk) 22:11, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The content I removed was a match for material available at http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/31102.html, which is marked as "Copyright © 2023 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved." It was from the section "Research interests".

There's a second problem: if you are in contact with the subject of the article and are editing Wikipedia on his behalf, there's a conflict of interest. Writing an article about yourself or a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view. According to our terms of use, paid editors and people editing on behalf of their employer are required to disclose their conflict of interest by posting a notice on their user page or talk page. There's more information on this topic in the section below. — Diannaa (talk) 12:23, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, DNS041123. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John Hildebrand, 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. — Diannaa (talk) 12:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining the issues, Diannaa. I've reverted the page back to it's state before my revisions/additions. I've also disclosed my COI and submitted a new "John Hildebrand" article through the Articles of Creation COI page. It is in the queue now. DNS041123 (talk) 16:07, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)