Kingweenie

Re: Richard Perry

With regards to this edit. Are you claiming to be Richard Perry or closely associated with him? If so then you may be editing with a conflict of interest. Also, it is quite obvious that the majority of the text is a word-for-word copy of http://richardperrymusic.com/. Who was the original author of that text on the website then? Please read Wikipedia:Copyrights. In the future please do not blindly remove maintenance tags without making an attempt to address the issues.. such as it still being an unreferenced BLP, still being unbalanced/non-neutral, and still being an inappropriate mixture of prose and timeline. -- œ^™ 22:41, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

I work for Richard Perry. Everything on this page comes directly from him and I was asked by him to add this information. We have tried many times to contact Wikipedia about the various changes that need to be done but we get no replies. Everything on this page is truthful and accurate. Mr. Perry has written everything on his page. There are no copyright issues. You can contact Mr. Perry directly at <redacted> or myself at <redacted> to discuss this matter.

Sincerely,

Kingweenie (talk) 05:55, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I've begun a thread at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive549#Re: User talk:Kingweenie and Richard Perry regarding this matter. Until we reach a consensus, please let the maintenance tags remain. -- œ^™ 16:27, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Because of your WP:COI you are strongly advised not to edit the article directly. Please use the article's talk page to discuss the changes that you think should be made to the article. Also, please see the process set out at WP:IOWN for releasing copyright material for use on Wikipedia. Even if such material is released, the article must still comply with WP:BLP, WP:SPAM and WP:UNDUE among other policies and guidelines. I have also redacted phone numbers from this page -- because of the visibility of Wikipedia on the internet, posting personal information here is a very bad idea. – ukexpat (talk) 17:55, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I've only added things to the page that Mr. Perry asked me to add. All of this is very confusing to us. I wish there was someone at Wikipedia that could make the needed changes for us. All Richard wants is a good looking page without the maintenance tags. I won't remove them again but I hope we can get some help with the page. As I said before, everything on the page is directly from Richard Perry, not from an outside party. Thank you.

How to verify copyright permission for article Richard Perry

Hello, Kingweenie.

Thank you for your interest in donating material from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Perry&diff=next&oldid=299127565 to Wikipedia. Since we do not currently have a method in place to verify the identity of account holders at account creation, we must verify such donations through external processes. The article has been blanked to allow time for that verification to proceed.

The simplest way to verify is to place a release on that external website putting the material into public domain or co-licensing it under CC-BY-SA and GFDL, which permit modification and reuse, even commercially, as long as authorship credit is given. This release is irrevocable and must continue to be displayed, or the material may need to be removed. A statement such as the following would be sufficient: "The contents of this website (or page, if you are specifically releasing one section) are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts." If you decide to take this route, please put a link to that release on Talk:Richard Perry so we can restore the contents.

Alternatively, you may choose to send an e-mail to the Wikimedia Foundation from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL. There is a boilerplate release form at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries which can be helpful. Please provide a clear link to the website in your e-mail and specify by name the articles on Wikipedia in which the material is being used. Once your e-mail is received and processed by a member of the Communications Committee, the article's contents will be restored if your release is legally sufficient. Please make a note that you've done this on Talk:Richard Perry to help guard against premature deletion of the page. You can compose a note or very simply paste the following on the talk page, brackets and all: {{OTRS pending}}

If you decide you don't wish to release the material into public domain or under the terms of CC-BY-SA and GFDL, you are welcome to rewrite the text from scratch at this temporary page. As long as the material is otherwise compliant with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, it will be used to replace the previous contents. Please leave a note at Talk:Richard Perry saying you have done so.

If you are not familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, you may wish to review Wikipedia:Starting an article or Wikipedia:Your first article. If you are closely related to the subject matter, you may also want to read our conflict of interest guidelines to get an idea how best to proceed. It may be necessary once permission is verified to address other concerns in the text, if it is otherwise inconsistent with our policies and guidelines. Specifically, I see that there are some concerns with this text about sourcing. Wikipedia's articles are meant to be based primarily on reliable sources that are not connected to the subject. That helps to ensure neutrality. It would be helpful if you could provide sources to magazines, newspapers or reputable industry websites that can help to verify the article's contents.

We apologize for the additional steps necessary, but as copyright is a matter of legal concern, we must ensure that we not only protect the rights of copyright holders, but also guard the Wikipedia project against inadvertent infringement.

The article will be revisited in about a week to see what additional steps have been taken or may be necessary. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to let me know at my talk page. We also have a help desk which is typically manned around the clock by volunteers.

Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 21:27, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Since we didn't receive verification of permission, the text has had to be deleted. However, rather than restoring earlier material that we are authorized to use, I have researched and added new referenced material concerning Mr. Perry's work. I have not utilized much material from his official site so that we could eliminate some of the content warning labels that used to sit on the article. Some details may, unfortunately, be lost, but everything that is in the article now meets our policies of verifiability and neutrality. If you have references aside from Mr. Perry's website to such details as his being named Producer of the Year by Rolling Stone, please feel free to make a note at the article's talk page where we might find verification, and other contributors will add that text in. We do appreciate your contribution to Wikipedia. Mr. Perry's work definitely warrants a more complete record than that formerly offered on him at our site. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

You are quite welcome, and I'm sorry to hear that you have been ill. If Mr. Perry would like to donate a biographical picture for the article, this would be particularly appreciated. This is done through e-mail; the process is at Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:26, 10 August 2009 (UTC)