Nmedits
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editHello, Nmedits, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was David Oyelowo, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 20:44, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
October 2017
editHello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to David Oyelowo has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.
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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 07:32, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Yahoo! Mail. Your edits continue to appear to constitute vandalism and have been automatically reverted.
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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 15:55, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to David Oyelowo. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:
|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]
Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:
|image=SomeImage.jpg
.
There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption
. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:47, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at David Oyelowo, you may be blocked from editing. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:48, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
Images, copyright, and Wikipedia
editGreetings! I see you're trying to change the image on the David Oyelowo article. The problem is, the image used in the infobox must be a free image and available for unlimited reuse, including commercial reuse. There is no evidence that the image you're trying to change to is owned by Speakerpedia and was released by Speakerpedia under a free license.
If, as you claim, you're working with/for Oyelowo, then the easiest solution is for a page to be put up at his official website with the image in question and a statement that such image is owned by Oyelowo and released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. —C.Fred (talk) 20:51, 28 October 2017 (UTC)