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March 2018

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  Please do not add or change content, as you did at Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 20:28, 30 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Kmweimer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

  • avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
  • propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
  • disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
  • avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
  • do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 20:29, 30 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Hello Kmweimer. I may be repeating some points raised by other editors elsewhere, but I am placing them here for ease of reference.

Because you identified yourself as an employee of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program in this edit [1], you are engaged in what we refer to as paid editing. Wikipedia's terms of use and paid editing disclosure rules make it mandatory for you to divulge this relationship on your userpage, User:Kmweimer. You can use the {{paid}} template to do so, which will provide you with a standardized disclosure notice.

With regards to the material you copied and pasted from your organization's website, I'm afraid that is not possible. You cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. In short, a copyright owner cannot offer Wikipedia a one-time license for use. Rather, the copyright to the material has to be released – permanently and irrevocably – into the public domain or under a free copyright license that is compatible with Wikipedia's licenses. This is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, so all content must be licensed for that purpose. You can learn more about this policy at Wikipedia:Copyrights.

If you'd like to use the copyrighted content in an article, refer to Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for how to grant us permission to use your content. Alternatively, you could write a new article that does not closely paraphrase the material available online. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 05:15, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply