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Conflict of interest and your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "SaskatchewanCraftCouncil", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:42, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I just put in a rename request, asking for "Cassidy from SCC" to be the username, I believe this should comply with the username policy. I am working on a project for the Saskatchewan Craft Council, and creating a properly sourced and verified Wikipedia page for an artist is one of the tasks. Thank-you for the message. - Cassidy SaskatchewanCraftCouncil (talk) 16:16, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for requesting the username change! Please be aware that regardless of the username, you have a conflict of interest. Editing pages on which you have such a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged. You should make suggested edits to the talk pages of respective articles. Further, you need to comply with our WP:PAID policy. I'm placing a warning right below this one regarding that, to give you instructions on how to proceed. It's not meant to be hostile, but helpful. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks! --Hammersoft (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello SaskatchewanCraftCouncil. The nature of your edits 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.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:SaskatchewanCraftCouncil. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=SaskatchewanCraftCouncil|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Hammersoft, I placed the disclosure on the user page, and I will be researching the Article for Creation process. Thank you for the clear guidelines and I will be putting this task on hold.

A question for clarification; For context, the task asked of me is to create a wiki page biography on an artist who had passed away last year. I personally have no connections to her. The SCC has a database of information and sourced references on her and believes she meets the general notability guideline. Because I am a new user, and being paid by the Saskatchewan Craft Council, this is a conflict of interest, so I have to use the Article for Creation process and for the article to be reviewed, is that correct?

I just want to make sure that this is done the proper way, thanks for your time, - Cassidy SaskatchewanCraftCouncil (talk) 19:51, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, you're absolutely on the right track. Thank you for working with us rather than against us. Far too many editors refuse to attempt to do things the right way, and end up having everything deleted and sometimes their accounts blocked. Also, be aware; you can alert me to new messages with questions you have by adding {{ping|Hammersoft}} to your message. Just be sure you sign the post in the same post that you make the ping, else the ping doesn't work. If you need more instruction on how to use that, see WP:PING. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:55, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:SaskatchewanCraftCouncil/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:SaskatchewanCraftCouncil/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://saskcraftcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Vol28-No1-Craft-Factor-Fall03.pdf. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 07:19, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

I hope I can ask some questions regarding the recent deletion of the sandbox article on Kaija Sanelma Harris.

I’m very new at this and didn’t realize that your feedback would result in immediate deletion. I understand there were too many direct quotes taken from the references and that the article needs to be revised and changed if it is to be accepted. Can you provide me with a copy of the sandbox article that was deleted?  I unfortunately didn’t make a copy of the information I had written.

For clarification, I thought the sandbox area is a testing and development page for articles that are not finished yet. I was working on an article so I could create a draft for review; it was not yet ready for submission. I realized that the draft needed revisions, specifically within the quotes, the referenced articles, and the other media. I recognize that they were very long and clunky to read.

I hope that I will be able to revise the page from the draft that was deleted, so that I don’t have to start completely over. If that is not possible, is there any advice you can give to me so that I’m more successful?

I’m somewhat overwhelmed by the process, so any recommendations you have for me will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and understanding. FineCraft (talk) 22:13, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@FineCraft: You used text from a copyrighted source. For legal reasons, you cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia - even if you are the copyright holder, or have the copyright holder's permission. Sandbox/draft articles are not exempt from this policy.

Copyrighted material is prohibited unless it has been released for use by the verified copyright owner into the public domain or under a license compatible with Wikipedia. These licenses allow anyone — not just Wikipedia — to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, free of charge and in perpetuity, provided that you are attributed as the author. Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use. Releasing the material is both permanent and irrevocable.

Wikipedia articles are typically formed from paraphrased summaries of source material, not verbatim copies. If you can rephrase the material in your own words and then properly cite the document as a source, then that would be acceptable.

Please also be aware that Wikipedia requires subjects to be notable according to its definition to merit inclusion. A person must meet the specific notability criteria for people; and if they are still alive, the even stricter policy on biographies of living persons. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Username concern

I see from previous messages that you said that you submitted a request to change your username. However, either you forgot to submit it or it was lost. Please submit another change of username soon, or will have to raise the matter with administrators. Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:27, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

I submitted a request for a change of username, thankyou for this notice SaskatchewanCraftCouncil (talk) 16:57, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Attention needed at username change request

Hello. A renamer or clerk has responded to your username change request, but requires clarification before moving forward. Please follow up at your username change request entry as soon as possible. Thank you. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done request link, Thank you for your understanding. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 18:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@Drm310: Courtesy ping. - FlightTime (open channel) 18:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)