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Copyright problem: Platon (photographer)

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Platon (photographer) saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:34, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

Hello, Platonphoto. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Platon (photographer), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Your username and edit history suggest that you may be connected to the subject of the article. If so, you are advised not to edit the article directly, but are of course always welcome to make suggestions for improvement on the talkpage. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:45, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Platon (photographer)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Platon (photographer), but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to contain material copied from http://www.platonphoto.com/biography/index.html (Note: content has already been removed once, re-added by the same editor), and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under license allowed by Wikipedia, then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author to release the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Platon (photographer) and send an email with confirmation of permission to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". Make sure you quote the exact page name, Platon (photographer), in your email. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted "under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA), version 3.0", or that the material is released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Platon (photographer) with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and GNU Free Documentation License, and note that you have done so on Talk:Platon (photographer). See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions.

It may also be necessary for the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and to follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Platon (photographer) saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing!

Please note that, due to your re-addition of the same copyvio material, the page has now been blanked, and will remain so until someone has the time to deal with the problem. That usually happens in about 4–6 weeks, depending on the backlog. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Request for entry expansion for Platon (photographer)

Dear Wikipedia Editors and Contributors,

I am writing on behalf of the studio of the photographer, Platon. I am an intern at Platon's Studio 1-2 days a week and have been given the task of reaching out to Wiki contributors with the hopes of finding someone to agree to updating the stub entry to a full biographical Wikipedia entry.

Could someone please advise on how might I go about getting a photographer's stub upgraded and updated to a full Wikipedia entry?

Platon already has a Wiki entry started, but it provides mostly out of date information. Furthermore, his career meets many of the criteria for an entry on a photographer including the fact that:

- he has put out multiple books by (non-vanity) commercial publishers or university presses.

- his has appeared in many exhibitions that have been noted in more than local press.

- his work has historical significance. For instance, he has photographed more world leaders than any other living photographer.

I would be happy to provide any factual information in regards to things such as: showdates, books published, holdings in prominent permanent collections by museums etc., that might be required in researching the article. I understand that I may not be able to write the entry myself because I work in his studio, but I was wondering what other options might be open to me in order to get his entry updated?

Thank you all and I look forward to your response. All the best, Johnny Platonphoto (talk) 20:06, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Johnny and thanks for your interest in Wikipedia! This can be a challenging place to edit, particularly when you have a conflict of interest as in your case. The first step towards expanding an article is finding good secondary sources to provide material - we care much more about what others have to say about a topic than what the subject has to say about itself. If you are aware of some sources that could be used for expansion, you can post them to the article talk page. Please be mindful of the fact that it is not Wikipedia's goal to promote a topic or to provide only positive information - negative information could be added as well provided it is compliant with the stringent requirements of our policy on articles on living persons. Happy editing, and feel free to reply here or on my talk page if you have any questions. VQuakr (talk) 20:36, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I see you've already had a lot of sound advice from VQuakr. I'm going to add a couple of suggestions:

• Change your username as soon as possible; I'm pretty sure that the one you have chosen would be considered misleading and/or promotional, even though it does honestly reveal your conflict of interest (yes, Catch-22).
• Resign yourself (as perhaps you already have) to not editing the article directly, but instead making suggestions on the talkpage, with reliable sources as suggested above (if those sources are obviously mainstream and also visible to all, what they say is more likely to convince).
• I'd spend some time looking at, and perhaps editing, some other articles that you have no connection with (other photographers, perhaps?), as a means to understanding what is and what is not usually thought to be acceptable round here. It's a minefield, as perhaps you've already noticed.

Enjoy it! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Forgot to say, a good photo of him, uploaded to Commons with proper permissions (another minefield), would enhance the article. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:31, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Platonphoto, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. 

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Daniel Case (talk) 23:14, 3 December 2013 (UTC)