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Your submission at Articles for creation: David Norman Lewis (March 6)

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March 2024

Hello 1Tytonidae1. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Northwest Film Forum, 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.

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Hi there, I don't have a financial stake in editing these articles! I live in Seattle and enjoy local film, cinemas, and festivals. I was really surprised by how few articles there are related to Pacific Northwest film and film institutions and I'm trying to remedy that. The Northwest Film Forum is a nonprofit which I am wholly unaffiliated with; I was just surprised that they weren't represented on Wikipedia, because they definitely should be. I'm working on an article right now for the Tacoma Film Festival, which I am also wholly unaffiliated with. I don't know how to prove that I'm not being paid. I don't have much experience on Wikipedia and am enjoying learning and contributing; I think the few articles I've created are quite objective, neutral in style, and well referenced. I like the concept of crowdsourcing and I enjoy researching and finding old news articles to use as references, etc. 1Tytonidae1 (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

So the reason I asked is because you are claiming the pictures that you uploaded(including the NWFF logo) are your own personal work. If you didn't personally take the images, they will need to be removed from articles/drafts and their deletion requested from Commons. Logos typically must be uploaded under "fair use" rules to this Wikipedia locally- though a logo that is mostly words may be okay- but you still can't claim it as your own personal work. I didn't see a copyright notice on the NWFF website so it must be assumed that the logo is copyrighted. 331dot (talk) 09:33, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I should have refrained from adding the logo then. Thanks for explaining! I can remove it. 1Tytonidae1 (talk) 09:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

So you did take this image?

The easiest way to upload an image is to be the photographer, then you can waive the copyright to it or otherwise allow it to be used on Wikipedia. If you didn't take the image, it may be possible to upload it but it is harder as you will need to show that the image was released under a copyright compatible with Wikipedia(allowing for reuse for any purpose with attribution) or that the copriright holder(usually the photographer) released the image for use. 331dot (talk) 09:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

No, I didn't. I'm reading up now on image use policy and, until I fully grasp this, I am going to refrain from uploading images. Thank you for pointing this out and explaining. 1Tytonidae1 (talk) 09:57, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. 331dot (talk) 10:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

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Which source is this in reference to? I did not use a bad source intentionally. 1Tytonidae1 (talk) 05:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

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