Kemples

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• Hello BoozAllenBrand, just added a few - hopefully useful - links about Wikipedia editing in general and COI-editing in particular. One quick additional tip: posting change requests as a COI-editor, you can add Template:Request edit on top of such messages to draw more attention from other volunteers to a suggestion (see link for more details). Please feel free to ask or post at WP:Teahouse, if you have any further questions. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

13-SEP-2018 Changes to Symantec article's talk page

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Symantec, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.  spintendo  22:26, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

@Spintendo: Thank you for letting me know. Unfortunately, that was pure novice user error. I had thought I was actually editing the Symantec page. Then realized I forgotten to move from comments to the actual page. I didn't know how to switch it back so I left a note about it. Clearly, I have a lot to learn.

File source problem with File:Fry Booz Hamilton Allen.tif

Thank you for uploading File:Fry Booz Hamilton Allen.tif. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

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• Did you, personally, hold the camera in your hand and click the button to take this photo? If so, you should say it is your "own work". If you did not personally hold the camera in your hand and click the button to take the photo, then we need to have permission from the copyright holder for this photo to be published under the terms of the "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0" license. Please see WP:COPYREQ for a sample letter that you can use to ask for permission. --B (talk) 21:34, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

@B: I represent the company that owns the copyright to the photograph. What additionally do I need to provide to use this photo? Kemples (talk) 16:28, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Please see WP:CONSENT. An authorized agent of your company can submit this form to permissions-en@wikimedia.org and that will be sufficient. --B (talk) 15:48, 30 January 2019 (UTC)