Bizblues

November 2022

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Thanks for the advice. I'm new to this! 2600:1700:79B0:42B0:68A4:9F83:7B92:7135 (talk) 19:10, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello Bizblues. 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:Bizblues. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bizblues|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. MrOllie (talk) 01:09, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Yes, Quadric.io is paying me as a consultant, and they want to have a company page on Wikipedia. I am fine disclosing this, but don't see how I can get anyone to do this work for free. How else do you get a company page? Please note that their competitors all have company pages. I am trying to put up a very simple, non-marketing page for this company. is the solution to use the Articles for creation process??? Bizblues (talk) 01:17, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Generally speaking when a company is notable enough, there is no need to 'get anyone' to do it, they'll do it of their own accord. It doesn't look like this is notable, though. I don't see anything but press releases (and thinly rewritten prereleases posted by freelancers in questionable sources). I honestly doubt there is any way you will get an article approved. Looks like a case of WP:TOOSOON. - MrOllie (talk) 01:46, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Bizblues! Your additions to Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) 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.
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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. — Diannaa (talk) 12:25, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Quadric.io (November 29)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Numberguy6 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Quadric.io and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Numberguy6 (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Bizblues! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Numberguy6 (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright violation at Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Your edit to Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. DanCherek (talk) 04:17, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi DanCherek, Here's my dilemma. Dr. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli personally authorized me to make changes to his Wikipedia page and gave me the file with information to use. I realize it is very similar to what he put up on the UC Berkeley page, so I reformatted the content into bullets. I can't reinvent the facts of his life. How can I make these updates for him? Do you need a note (to whom and where do I send it) from him authorizing the changes?

Paula (Bizblues) Bizblues (talk) 16:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

In that case, you need to read the conflict of interest (COI) guideline and disclose your COI, and you shouldn't be editing the article directly; please propose changes on the article's talk page using an edit request. Basic facts are not copyrightable, but text that you added was copied from elsewhere. If you propose an addition, you can either write it in your own words, or follow the steps at WP:DONATETEXT (but please note that Wikipedia articles are to be primarily based on reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject). DanCherek (talk) 06:17, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Quadric.io

Hello, Bizblues. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Quadric.io, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:07, 2 May 2023 (UTC)