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Image copyright problem with Image:Logo fill 17.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Logo fill 17.gif. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check

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This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --FairuseBot (talk) 06:08, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

File:Haddonfield-copcar.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Haddonfield-copcar.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:28, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Steve Rowell

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A tag has been placed on Steve Rowell 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://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/steve-rowell/. 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.

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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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

You have an obvious conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:

• When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.
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Thanks for your message, as I put in the deletion summary, the text and image were copied from a site marked Copyright © 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. All rights reserved. and can't be used here since it's not explicitly public domain. We have no way of verifying who you are or whether you own the copyright, so if you believe that the foundation is infringing your copyright, you must take it up with them.

Please read my previous postings; apart from the copyright violation, your text was sourced only to your own website, which is not an independent verifiable source as defined above, and there were no in-line references to enable us to verify anything you claim from genuine third-party sources, but there were multiple spamlinks to your own website.

You said I saw that you just deleted my artist bio page, it's not your page, it's our page about you, and should be written, if at all, as a draft by someone without your conflict of interest. You write it as "Steve", which is unencyclopaedic, and load it with fact-free and unsourced promo like investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman [sic] intelligence, ecologies, and technology in the landscape. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist., which is you talking about yourself, which is the definition of self-promotion.

If what you claim can be independently verified, it's possible that you might meet notability guidelines for creatives, but you should not be writing about yourself. Also, any article, let alone one with an obvious COI, should be written as a draft and submitted for approval. For legal reasons, we can't restore copyright-violating text anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:34, 13 April 2020 (UTC)