Brookette1

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Re: Katie Linendoll

Hi, Brookette. If you work for a PR firm, you should have lawyers on staff, or at least on retainer. They should be able to educate you about intellectual property. =)

Wikipedia policy is to only use text that can be freely modified and distributed without restriction. It is very unusual for official text to satisfy those conditions. We also require that our articles be written from a neutral point of view, by referring to secondary sources that have written about the subject. Taking text from a PR firm that is employed by the subject of an article -- which would be considered a primary source instead of secondary -- risks compromising our goal of neutrality.

In other words, we prefer to take information about Ms. Linendoll from things like magazine articles, newspaper stories, and books, rather than from Ms. Linendoll herself, or people affiliated with her. It's not that we don't like PR firms, but PR firms have different goals than we do -- PR firms are looking to present their subject in the best light possible; we want to present subjects as neutrally as possible.

Now, photos are a different story. We love to get professional photos of our subjects, but they have to be released under a free Creative Commons license. You and Ms. Linendoll would have to understand that a photo released under a free license may be modified extensively and reused at will for any purpose. If that is acceptable, and you still wish to release a photo of Ms. Linendoll under a Creative Commons license, then please contact our "volunteer response team" at this link: Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission.

Thanks for your interest in improving our encyclopedia!

-- Powers ^T 14:12, 3 August 2010 (UTC)