Sagpa13

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Hello, Sagpa13, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! McGeddon (talk) 14:28, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Marking edits as "minor"

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Susan Greenfield, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. --McGeddon (talk) 14:29, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of interest?

Can I ask whether your username is an abbreviation for "Susan Adele Greenfield's PA"? If you have any professional connection to Greenfield, you should familiarise yourself with Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy before editing your employer's biography article. --McGeddon (talk) 15:33, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

This is correct. The purpose of me having an account is to simply update Greenfield's Wiki page. I have read the Conflict of interest policy and will take note of this in future, - thank you for bringing this to my attention. (Sagpa13 (talk) 13:27, 10 December 2013 (UTC))

Thanks for clarifying. You should be restricting your edits to the non-controversial ones outlined at WP:COIU, and suggesting any other changes at Talk:Susan Greenfield. Removing a photo from the article because you or your employer would prefer to see a "more clear, recent picture" is inappropriate. --McGeddon (talk) 16:42, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for letting me know! I'm new to this therefore am slightly unaware what is "appropriate" and what isn't. I'm trying to find a more up-to-date speaking photo of Greenfield to upload, however it is proving difficult due to copyrights. Meanwhile, I will start to use Talk: Susan Greenfield. (Sagpa13 (talk) 15:20, 12 December 2013 (UTC))

Updating an image and adding a link are not appropriate from a COI user, as per WP:COIU. Please make sure you have read this policy before editing the article again. If you want to make a change that is not on this list, it should be suggested on the talk page first.

I've reverted the infobox image as you have not yet provided evidence that the photographer has released the image into the public domain. There's a message about this on your Commons talk page if you haven't already seen it - you need to provide email or website evidence that Barnes is happy for his work to be reused commercially worldwide for no fee. --McGeddon (talk) 11:27, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Continued edits against COI

Please do not edit the Susan Greenfield article again unless your edit is one of the six outlined at WP:COIU:

1. removing spam and reverting unambiguous vandalism,
2. removing content that clearly violates the biography of living persons policy,
3. fixing spelling and grammatical errors,
4. reverting or removing your own COI edits,
5. making edits where there is clear consensus on the talk page (though it is better to let someone else do it), and
6. adding reliable sources, especially when another editor has requested them (but note the advice above about the importance of using independent sources).

If you want to add a different infobox image or make other changes, you should post a message at Talk:Susan Greenfield outlining the changes that you and/or Greenfield would like to see. You should not make the edits yourself. Ignoring this guideline again may result in your account being blocked.

It's also extremely important that you provide Wikimedia with strong evidence that Keith Barnes has explicitly authorised his photo of Greenfield to be reused commercially worldwide for no fee - your claim that he said the words "I am happy to grant use for this purpose" to you in some context or other is not clear enough, as either you or he may have misunderstood the exact nature of the licencing. Please follow the steps at Commons:Permission to resolve this, rather than just uploading different images every time one is deleted. --McGeddon (talk) 15:02, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/One1two2three3, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

McGeddon (talk) 10:19, 15 April 2014 (UTC)