Garrettglaser7

Welcome!

Hello, Garrettglaser7, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was KNBC, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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! Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:43, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Uploading an image to Wikipedia

Hi Garrett - I saw your note on my talk page about adding a photo of yourself to Garrett Glaser. If you upload the photo to Wikipedia, and let me know, I can add it to the article in a simple infobox. Wikipedia doesn't want to get sued by Getty Images so I have to warn you right off the bat that the process is somewhat complicated. The first thing you need to do is upload the image. It has to be an image that you own the reproduction rights to. If someone else took the photo, which is usually the case unless it's a selfie, Wikipedia will ask for that person's name, and will ask that person to send in their permission as proof that they did indeed give you reproduction rights (more on that later). They won't take your word for it. You start the upload by clicking on the left margin where it says "upload file". Then select at top where it says "click here" to start the upload wizard. Then select the file, give it a name, add a description, select this is a free work in step 3, and then fill out the copyright status info. Select creative commons attribution share alike 4.0 as the copyright. Once the image is uploaded, you or the photographer has to send a permission note. Here are the instructions for providing permission to Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries The sender basically fills out the info in the box by replacing the red text with his/her own text, and sends it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. The hard part is if it's an old photo and you can't get in touch with or don't even remember the photographer. Unfortunately unless you can state that you are the photographer, the image can't be used. Wikipedia staff will let you know if there are any issues, and be prepared for this to be harder than you'd think. Good luck! TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 22:33, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

I added your photo to your article with an infobox. Cheers! TimTempleton ^{(talk) (cont)} 20:39, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Tim. First, my apologies for the lateness of this reply to your helpful advice of 2019. Amazingly, I had not logged on since that time. I use Wikipedia almost daily, but never log in. I will carefully read all of your notes, make some changes where needed and then ask you or another editor to proofread it. I would value your thoughts. Thanks, again. Garrett Glaser. garrettgla@mac.com Garrettglaser7 (talk) 19:47, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Garrett Glaser, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:51, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

• Please review WP:Autobiography#If Wikipedia already has an article about you before attempting to edit Garrett Glaser again. —C.Fred (talk) 00:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

  Hi C.Fred.

  How come you blocked me? I went into an article about me THAT I WROTE YEARS AGO and added a paragraph. It's mostly about volunteer work I did over 30 years. Please tell me what you need. I appreciate any help you can lend in enabling me to put through these updates. Garrettglaser7 (talk) 03:41, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

  Your account was not blocked. The edit you made to Garrett Glaser was reverted by a Wikipedia administrator because it didn't comply with Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Challenged or likely to be challenged. This is quite a common occurrance because Wikipedia does its best to try and ensure that content in articles about living persons is reliably sourced and verifiable. It doesn't mean that what you added wasn't true; just unverifiable. I suggest you try and find reliable WP:SECONDARY sources that can be cited in support of the changes you want to make, and then propose those changes by making edit requests at Talk:Garrett Glaser as explained in WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement.

  Try to keep your edit requests as simple and straightforward as possible, and make sure you support the changes you want made with links to a reliable source in support. Even though Wikipedia doesn't require that sources be available online, it will make things much easier to verify if you can provide a link to a website or article that supports the changes you want made. Just for reference, trying to have an entire article completely rewritten in a single edit request is probably not going to work even when every change is well supported and verifiable, but trying to have it completely rewritten as a bunch of unsourced content has zero chance of working.

  Finally, please remember that all Wikipedia users are volunteers, and while those answering edit request tend to be a pretty dedicated bunch, they may not respond right away. You need to be a little patient and give the edit request a chance to get into the system. So, don't simultaneously flood the article's talk page with lots of edit requests; instead, make one and wait until someone responds to it. Once you're more familiar with the process, subsequent requests should be easier to make. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:43, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Garret Glaser

Hello, Garrettglaser7. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Garrett Glaser, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi Garretglaser7. I've added the above template based upon what you posted at WP:HD#How do I source the content below?. The template contains blue links to Wikipedia pages that apply to your particular situation. Please take the time to look at these pages since they will explain some things about Wikipedia that you might not know. Please understand the template was only added for your reference, not because you've necessarily done anything wrong. If after reading the above pages you have questions, feel free to ask for assistance at the Wikipedia Help Desk or the Wikipedia Teahouse. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks much. Garrettglaser7 (talk) 06:13, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Your user page

You user page is currently not in accordance with Wikipedia's user page guideline. Please take a look at this policy (in particular this and this) because it explains the kinds of content that Wikipedia users are allowed to add to their user pages. In general, a user page is primarily for letting other users know about ones Wikipedia activity; some personal non-Wikipedia related stuff is allowed, but a user page is not really intended to be used like an "online CV" or "personal web profile page". The longer your userpage remains as it currently is, the greater the chance it will be edited to bring it in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policy or even perhaps nominated for speedy deletion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:51, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Real names used as user names

Hi again Garrettglaser7. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Username policy#Real names. Even though it's perfectly acceptable for users to use their real name as their username, in some cases when the user name is the same or similar to that of a specific, identifiable person (like Garrett Glaser), an account may be soft-blocked by a Wikipedia administrator as a precaution against damaging impersonation. While nobody has any reason not to believe that you're not who you're claiming to be, there's also no way for Wikipedia to verify your identity. (See On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog for an example of what I mean.) So, if you're planning on sticking around and trying to get changes made to the Wikipedia article written about you, you'll probably be able to avoid lots of confusion if you do the following: (1) make a COI declaration on your user page and (2) have your identity verified by the Wikimedia Volunteer Response Team. You're not required to do either of these things, but doing one or both may make it easier for you to seek assistance. Some Wikipedia users are more willing to try and help someone when they don't feel as if they're being tricked or otherwise deceived. Another advantage of doing this is that it make it clear to others that any photos you upload to Wikimedia Commons under a claim of "own work" are most likely your own work; you thus might be able to avoid being asked for further verification of your copyright ownership. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:20, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Will do and thank you. Garrettglaser7 (talk) 06:27, 10 April 2023 (UTC)