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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The draft of this bio was written by User:MimiBix and both the user name and topic familiarity suggest of WP:COI. I have carefully gone through the article and removed everything that sounded too promotional, or was unreferenced and potentially promotional, and tagged some issues for needing (better) references. MimiBix, you may wish to comment here whether you do have a conflict of interest (please read the guideline linked to above first). If that is the case, or if you choose not to comment, you should not undertake any further edits to the article itself. You may comment here, on this talk page, about suggested edits. Schwede6602:05, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Kia ora, thank you for accepting and editing the article. Yes I am related to Donovan, and wrote up the draft in advance, knowing about the New Year Honours announcement - but I'm more than happy to step back and let others edit and add to the article from here on to ensure it isn't biased.
My only major edit in mind was to add a photo from the 2015 NZ Children's Book Awards: https://www.flickr.com/photos/booksellersnz/19930719503/in/album-72157657076243836/ .
However I'm not entirely sure about the guidelines around obtaining the photographer's permission for uploading etc, but there's some quality photos there which would be good to add to the article sometime (possibly to replace the second current photo with the top hat).
Thank you again! --MimiBix (talk) 04:29, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
@MimiBix: As I said above, do not edit the article at all. Make suggestions here and let other editors who don't have a COI deal with it. To that end, I have just reverted yesterday's edit. I mean it. If you don't listen, the article will once again be tagged with a "COI editor" tag and I assume you wouldn't want that.
Regarding licensing, that's a complicated topic. You can read up in detail about it on Commons. But in a nutshell you can assume that by default, the copyright for a photo rests with the photographer and it is that person who can change the license to something that is acceptable for Commons. In the case of Booksellers New Zealand, they may have engaged the photographer (Mark Tantrum) under a contract with clauses that transfers copyright to them; in which case it's that organisation that can change the license. Either way, the file that you uploaded to Commons was marked as your own work and as you aren't Mark Tantrum (because if you were, you'd know about copyright), I have put this up for deletion. To get files from Flickr onto Commons, what you need to do is to find out who holds the copyright (the org or the photographer) and then ask whether the copyright holder would be happy to change the license to "Attribution-ShareAlike". If they do so, post the links to the photos here as there is a bot-assisted process in place that records the license status at the time of uploading to Commons (that is the only way to keep the photos save from future deletion should the license on Flickr be changed again). I suggest you do not cross-upload files from Flickr to Commons yourself.
@Shwede66 Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't intending on doing any more edits. Yes, the photo ought to be deleted - I only uploaded it to see what it would look like on the page, and didn't realise it would stay on Wikipedia after it was deleted from the draft. MimiBix (talk) 23:59, 5 January 2021 (UTC)Reply
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