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AfC notification: Draft:Bryant Villeponteau has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bryant Villeponteau. Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bryant Villeponteau (July 10)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Bryant Villeponteau has been accepted

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Photo copyright infringement

The wiki article on Sam Moskowitz (SF author and historian) uses a photo of mine without consent or attribution. I would like it removed until I am contacted for possible use. The photo was taken at MidAmericon, the 34th World Science Fiction Convention, Sept. 2-6, 1976, in Kansas City, MO. Here's the link to the Moskowitz wiki page:

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Dave Truesdale has edited Tangent and now Tangent Online since 1993. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award five times and the World Fantasy Award once. A former editor of the Bulletin of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he also served as a World Fantasy Award judge in 1998, and for several years wrote an original online column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Now retired, he keeps close company with his SF/F library, the coffeepot, and old movie channels on TV. He lives in Kansas City, MO. Dave Truesdale (talk) 19:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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Gregory Benford

I see you have been adding Gregory Benford to cities and lists, stating that he has lived there. This may be so, but his article does not indicate that. Please add a reliable source before adding Benford back to these lists. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 14:34, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Gregory Benford. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:50, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

• You stated here that you are editing on behalf Gregory Benford. I would strongly urge you to carefully read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:54, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Dear Magnolia667, I'm new at this and am trying to do the right thing. Gregory Benford sends me material from time to time and asks me to add it to his wiki page. After you asked for sources when I added his name to a few cities' wiki pages, Greg sent me a paragraph detailing when and for how long he lived in these cities. I added this graph to his wiki page under Biography, then linked the cities to the wiki pages of those cities. I thought I was doing the right thing, so am sorry if I missed something. I also do not understand why me helping Greg (who is extremely busy) maintain his wiki page is in any way a conflict of interest. Is Greg the only person who is able to add stuff to his own wiki page? Just asking. Thank you. Dave Truesdale (talk) 00:26, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

If you read the conflict of interest, you will see that only neutral editors can edit his page. He is not a neutral editor, and because your are a friend or he is paying you, you aren't either. There are some workarounds, which are outlined on the C of I article. Also, you added information but did not add a source to support it. Wikipedia does not accept personal knowledge, it needs a reliable source. Please take a moment to read some of the help pages, or leave a message here and I will try to help. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Good morning Magnolia677, I read the C of I article and am still unclear on some of it. Gregory does not pay me to add a few items of fact to his page on occasion. While I obviously know Gregory (we've met but once, back in 2001 at a sci-fi convention) I would consider us friendly acquaintances at best. _Lots_ of sci-fi fans know Gregory, as he is well known and highly respected in the sci-fi community, and has been since the 1980s. I think he asked me to help with his wiki page because he knew of my sci-fi fanzine and liked it and knew he could trust me, but this is only a guess. When someone as high profile and respected as Gregory Benford asks if you would help with his wiki page because he is too busy (world traveler, lecturer on sci-fi and astrophysics), then a mere sci-fi fan would be crazy to say no. Gregory has asked only that I add factual material to his page, such as in the recent paragraph he wrote and I merely pasted in and linked; where he was born, raised, or has lived during his lifetime. If Gregory cannot add facts about his own life, then who can? Does he need to go back through his life and get civil records for proof of where he has lived, or was born, or where he got his doctorate in astrophysics? This is where my confusion comes in about some of the C of I rules. I can see why they are needed, but they are so complex in places that now a notable person cannot even edit his own page with factual material. This is kind of a Catch-22 situation, isn't it? Is a total stranger the only one able to edit someone else's page -- and where would they go to acquire factual material if not the source, in this case the person whose page it is? All Gregory wants me to do (and again he has written the text) is add his name as a Notable Person to the pages on Orange County, Robertsdale and Fairhope, Alabama, and Laguna Beach, CA. Since I am quite new at this, I ask your help in exactly how I should go about adding a single paragraph from Gregory (to his own page) verifying the cities and dates where and when he lived (or still lives) at these places, and linking to their individual pages at their Notable Persons sections. Thanks very much for your help. :-)Dave Truesdale (talk) 14:31, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Again, you clearly have a conflict of interest. The real test is, if this person was charged with a crime tomorrow, would you add that to his page with a reliable source? Not likely, because he is your friend. Thus, the neutrality of your edits are dubious. A workaround is to declare your conflict, as you've done, and post any edits you want to make to the article's talk page. Other neutral edits may wish to add some or all of your edit to the article. Please carefully read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 01:22, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Dear Diannaa, I have since obtained proper permission and confirmation of copyright to add the Karl P. Cohen photo. I copy the confirmation email here: "Permissions <permissions@wikimedia.org>

Jun 8 (1 day ago)

to embenford, me, xbenford, beacashmore Dear Elisabeth Brown,

Thank you, what you say confirms that – whether by inheritance or as creator – you are the copyright owner.

Has the photograph been uploaded? If so, under what name? If not, please upload it to Wikimedia Commons (<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>), and let me know once you have done so.

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Yours sincerely, Martin Fisher"

I now need to know if the photo will be automatically posted or if there is anything else I need to do (I am still very new at this). I have taken the liberty of uploading the photo again but can't seem to get it to appear on the Karl P. Cohen wiki page in progress. Thank you in advance for your help and understanding. Dave Truesdale (talk) 15:07, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Karl P. Cohen (June 11)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Karl P. Cohen (July 2)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Karl P. Cohen has been accepted

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