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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello GenYouth! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:54, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

Hello, I'm Callanecc. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello GenYouth. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:GenYouth. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=GenYouth|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:58, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Callanecc, I am GenYouth. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits. my edits about the GenScript Biotech, rely on the media reports and their financial report (till on June 30, 2022) GenYouth (talk) 08:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

cause I am a novice in Wikipedia. I just find most data of GenScript Biotech is outdated. So I checked with the media news to update the content of GenScript Biotech. Could you tell me which part or which sentences are suspected as "paid edit" or "advertisement"? GenYouth (talk) 08:40, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Your editing fits a normal pattern that paid editors sometimes follow which includes, for example, copying promotional information from the article subject's website into the article. Regarding promotion editing, since a lot of what you added was a copyright violation it's not appropriate for me to copy it here but have a look at the guidance in WP:NOTADVERT and MOS:PUFFERY for some ideas on what not to do. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:21, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Callanecc, I find the financial report in GenScript official website. As a public company, financial report which is mandatory under the rule of the Exchange is the only one tool for releasing company information which must be honest, objective and rational. Here is the GenScript's financial report link:[1]https://www.genscript.com/gsfiles/IPO/Interim-Report-2022.pdf?735061939 I find that there are some mistakes and old data in [GenScript Biotech], for example, according to the financial report, till 30 June 2022, GenScript has over 5500 employees, but in the entry [GenScript Biotech], the number of employee is 3900. So I have to revise the data, and I think it has nothing to do with "paid edit" or "advertisement". GenYouth (talk) 07:03, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

If you confirm with my comments above, could I start to revise the data information about GenScript in order to make sure the information of GenScript keeps the latest. GenYouth (talk) 07:05, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

That sort of factual update is fine (remember to check how to cite sources, copying information from their website or the report is not. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:54, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Callanecc, I will revise the data first. After data updating, I will check with you if any other revisions are permitted. GenYouth (talk) 09:03, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

besides, if the financial report can be cited as evidence or resources? GenYouth (talk) 09:03, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

And I also noticed that you left the message "In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message." So till now, can I start to update the factual information, or I still have waiting for some " review process"? GenYouth (talk) 09:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Yep, you answered that question by confirming you aren't being compensated for your editing so you are okay to edit now. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:09, 5 January 2023 (UTC)