Meredithcompass

March 2017

Your addition to Bobby Osborne has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. CityOfSilver 17:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

April 2017

Your addition to Bobby Osborne has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 21:50, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted.

Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 22:32, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

To follow up, I believe the latest additions you made to Bobby Osborne to be a copy/paste from somewhere, as nobody writes all that content in their own words so well and that fast. Giveaways are that it wasn't cited and that you had to go back and remove duplication. If after the block period you are going to become a serious editor here, please accept that all words must be your own, and we don't have a WP:DEADLINE -- so you can work on your own copy in your sandbox, and get it just right, before merging into the article. Alternatively, you can add small amounts of content at a time to the article, making sure each addition is cited. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:38, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

This blocked user is asking that their block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

Meredithcompass (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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UTRS appeal #17962 was submitted on Apr 04, 2017 22:55:31. This review is now closed.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Meredithcompass (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I work for Bobby Osborne's record label and this content was written for us for Bobby's album liner notes. We own this content and I have permission to reprint it here. Can you please unblock me and reinstate my copy? This is very important for Bobby's new album press campaign. Bobby is 85 years old and has been in the music industry for over 60 years. Currently his entry is two paragraphs. I am trying to make sure that accurate, detailed and thorough information is available here. Meredithcompass (talk) 22:58, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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So you are an undeclared paid contributor, violating disclosure requirements in the Terms of Use while trying to use Wikipedia for promotion. You will need to address that. If the liner note content were appropriate for Wikipedia at all, which it isn't (see WP:V beyond the spam issues), you would also need to provide evidence that it has been released under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify it for any purpose, including commercial purposes. A "Wikipedia only" permission is not enough. Huon (talk) 23:08, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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who is allowed to update Bobby's bio? can Bobby himself do it? or can the writer of this piece? i'm not trying to do anything insidious just updating an older artist's biographical information on Wikipedia. would appreciate any help. Meredithcompass (talk) 23:16, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

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Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. As far as editing the article goes, see WP:COI, WP:PAID and WP:AUTO. Yunshui ^雲_水 14:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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I rather doubt there are reliable third-party sources for much of the content you tried to add, such as "features an all star cast of pickers and singers collaborating with Bobby on an eclectic set of songs". Whether or not that's insidious, it's clearly inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you know of reliable sources such as newspapers or reputable music magazines that have reported on Osborne in some detail, you are welcome to point them out on the article's talk page (once the block runs out), but I'd strongly advise you to leave the implementation to uninvolved editors. Of course you will still need to disclose your affiliationw ith the record label and with Osborne on your user page to comply with the Terms of Use. Huon (talk) 00:40, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

That text (including the words "all star cast of pickers" as these were Grammy winning artists who guest appeared) came from Dr. Neil Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folkore Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, who is considered an expert on the genre of bluegrass and I added the citation to my entry. Again, I apologize and will try to ask Neil to input the text directly or try another solution to update this page.

Only if the content is reliably sourced will we accept it, no matter who adds it. We don't accept content with an assertion of being an expert or having special credentials. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 18:56, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

If Prof. Rosenberg wrote that specially for Compass Records as part of your promotional campaign effort, I still would not consider it an appropriate source. If he wrote it for some other purpose and you just re-used it, we're back at "copyright violation". I'll also note that your website does not credit Prof. Rosenberg as the author. Huon (talk) 20:27, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Prof Rosenberg has written multiple pieces about Bobby for many sources, including the International Bluegrass Museum, which was what I initially tried to re-use here. I did not know that you couldn't repurpose an existing piece of biographical information written for an accredited source that is freely available on their website if you cited it (which I did). Prof Rosenberg wrote another piece for the liner notes of the album, not for a promotional campaign and it contains facts about the artist's career. Can you help me understand how I can add biographical information to this page without violating the rules. I am not qualified to rewrite this person's biography, I am just trying to make a freely available existing biography from a reliable third party source available to interested readers on Wikipedia. Can Prof Rosenberg add this piece? I am not required to cite Mr. Rosenberg on our website, per Mr. Rosenberg though he is cited in the liner notes of the album.