User talk:Rampage45

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi Rampage45, thanks for signing up and for your work so far. I'm giving you the version of the welcome template that we give to editors who appear to have a conflict of interest, because you are using a lot of non-neutral terms in editing about Rich Riley. It's possible you are just unfamiliar with writing for an encyclopedia. Wikipedia aims for neutral presentation of the facts, so for example Yahoo! as a "major internet company" is too much, sounding like an ad rather than a context for the reader, and there's no need for anything except a bare statement of profession when adding Riley to a list of alumni. "Just the facts", please. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:57, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Removal of tags

You have now twice removed the conflict of interest tags from the Rich Riley article without justification. Can you refrain from doing so as they are there for a reason.Rayman60 (talk) 13:15, 26 May 2016 (UTC) You have again removed the tags. They are there for a reason and you cannot just remove them, especially when they are valid and you have not provided a reasonable explanation for their removal. So kindly do not remove them again.Rayman60 (talk) 21:08, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

I removed the tags because we removed the text, is this incorrect process?

Rich Riley

Hi: I rewrote the article to be more neutral, chopping out the paragraph that was all about Shazam rather than Riley. (Note: always use the person's last name, not their first.) I've now also removed the photo. Commons is going to delete it; they only host completely copyright-free images, and that clearly doesn't apply in the case of a Bloomberg screenshot. It's also not acceptable as fair use on Wikipedia, because he's a living person, so it is possible to obtain a free image of him - by photographing him at a public event. (In addition to the "fair use" link in the previous sentence, you may want to look at the overall image use policy for Wikipedia.) I don't know what your connection to him is, but could you possibly take a photo of him yourself? It should depict him at an event, not posed in his office, because it would need to be your own work for you to release all rights to it; even for publicity shots, the photographer almost always retains copyright, so we avoid using anything that looks like a professional publicity shot. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:19, 29 May 2016 (UTC)'

We have permission from Bloomberg and sent to Creative Commons