Peterjan1976
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editHello, Peterjan1976, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your two edits to the Atelier Van Lieshout article has been undone. Fist you altered the standard layout, which has been referred. Secondly you added a fair-use image, which can only be added if fair use conditions apply. This doesn't apply because there are a number of other images available here. One of those images has been added to the article. -- Mdd (talk) 15:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi Peterjan, I merged your new article into the Atelier Van Lieshout, because these articles tend to be speedy deleted before you even realize it. Also I added some references so anybody else will not delete it anyway.
Now the subject itself probably fails notability, and the article was unsourced. But this is not even the biggest problem. You seem to be writing based on own experiences, which is called original research and is not appreciated here, see WP:NOR. Next time you add a text please keep in mind, the content should be based on information already published somewhere else. If so, you should add it add that reference to the text. Instead of writing down "The Free State created a pleasant mixture of sanctuary and art site filled with..." better use an appropriate quote to qualify the circumstances. -- Mdd (talk) 20:38, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
That makes no sense. As I wrote the image and texts are from the artist itself and I have permission to use everything.
Policies related to copyright and conflict of interest
editHello, Peterjan.
Many people connected to companies and enterprises do not fully understand Wikipedia's purpose. Wikipedia differs from many websites in that we do not encourage people to write about themselves and their employers - in fact, we request that people avoid writing about themselves and their work because of the high risk of conflict of interest in their doing so. Instead, we are here to serve as a neutral compendium of what reliable, independent sources say about notable subjects. Reliable, independent sources are in most cases things like newspaper articles, magazine profiles and reliable industry websites. Press releases like [1] are not reliable, independent sources. Our goals are to produce neutral and independently verifiable content that does not rely on personal experience or opinion.
Sometimes, it is possible to import copyrighted content from other websites that meets these goals, but we cannot import it just because we are told somebody has permission. Wikipedia is an open website that has no standards to verify the identify of people who create accounts. For this reason, we must have all such permissions verified through external means, not a statement on Wikipedia. Please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on what these means are.
Your recent additions to Atelier Van Lieshout have been removed as the content is largely copied from an external website without verifiable permission and as the content does not meet our core policies - anything written on this installation on Wikipedia needs to be independently verifiable (with sources not related to the collective itself) and neutral.
Please review WP:COI and be sure that your edits to Wikipedia comply. If you have any questions about this or about verifying license, you are welcome to let me know at my talk page or to reach out for assistance from others at one of our help forums, such as the Wikipedia:Teahouse. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:45, 18 August 2014 (UTC)