Troubleisopportunity

February 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I noticed that your user subpage at User:Troubleisopportunity may not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline. If you believe that your userpage does not violate our guidelines, please leave a note here and we can discuss it. As an alternative, you may add {{Db-userreq}} to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it, or you can simply edit the page so that it meets Wikipedia's userpage guidelines. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 15:10, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Copyright Issues

Thank you for clarifying the source of the material you contributed and who the owner is for the content at Lauren Templeton. Unfortunately we can't leave it at that if we're going to use the material. We need you to verify with the Foundation that you are the real copyright holder and understand the legal implications of putting your copyrighted work on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation has established specific licensing guidelines that we need to follow.

If you still wish to grant Wikipedia the rights to this material, follow the instructions here. It has all the info you need. Be sure you understand the rights to the text that you will be giving up. Then, you'll be granted what's called "an OTRS ticket" that shows Wikipedia has been granted the rights to the text and then you can post the material verbatim (provided the subject meets the other qualifications for articles on Wikipedia such as notability).

We don't accept copyrighted work outside of that process in order to protect the holders of copyright, both from others posting their words on Wikipedia, and from unknowingly signing away their rights.

I hope you understand that refusing all copyrighted work until we have real evidence that it's been released into the GDFL is the best way to make sure we aren't violating anyone's rights.

Either way, please do not restore that material until this issue is resolved.

I hope this helps. Toddst1 (talk) 18:37, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I am working on getting that letter filled out by my managers. What can I do to get the bibliography error taken down as well? Thanks for the Help Toddst1.

Troubleisopportunity (talk) 18:43, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I've deleted both Scott Phillips (financial writer) and Lauren Templeton for now as we can't keep it there until we receive and process that OTRS ticket which can take a while. Does that address the error you are referring to? In the mean time, I think there are a couple of policies we need you to review:

• WP:BIO - our notability guideline for articles about people
• WP:ADVERT - to be sure you stay within guidelines
• WP:COI - To be sure you understand the issues around editing things that you have a connection to.

Toddst1 (talk) 18:48, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Toddst1, I have read the links you provided and believe I have a better understanding. I also believe that both Lauren and Scott and sought out enough to meet the notability test. I am unsure I can convey that though. I also believe I have read enough on the conflict of interests and advertising pages to rewrite the articles from a neutral point of view. Thank you so much for your help. I apologize for the trouble, these are the first wikipages I have wrote. I look forward to having the articles back up as soon as possible. Troubleisopportunity (talk) 19:16, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Not a problem. Stuff like this happens all the time. Wikipedia has a very complex set of rules that can be intimidating to the new user. Wikipedia:Obscure Guideline 573 comes to mind. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 19:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I know you said it could take some time for the submission of forms to be processed. It's been about three weeks now. Is there anything I can do to check on its progress?

I'm not as familiar with that part of the process. You could send another email asking what's up. Toddst1 (talk) 16:48, 19 March 2012 (UTC)