User talk:PopTalk

March 2021

Hello PopTalk. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:PopTalk. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=PopTalk|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message.

Hi there, I appreciate your concern in the spirit of maintaining the integrity of the Wiki community. However, you are mistaken. I am not being compensated for my edits whatsoever. PopTalk (talk) 18:15, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Template:Z159 CUPIDICAE💕 16:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You previously claimed no connection with the subjects you've written about but have never addressed why you are creating promotional articles or how this is your own work. CUPIDICAE💕 16:40, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The articles are not promotional but factual. If Wikipedia prevents users from editing articles with factual information, please point me to the policy. Thanks. PopTalk (talk) 18:16, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So, again, how is the image your own work if you've got no connection? Enlighten me. CUPIDICAE💕 18:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is the exact conflict of interest to which you refer in this message? Your initial message is generic, yet this seems specific; choose one and address it adequately. Thanks. PopTalk (talk) 19:23, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

playing games will get you nowhere. What is your connection to Sur (artist) and how did you become the copyright holder of the image in the article? CUPIDICAE💕 19:29, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have made factual edits to a page. In that page, I have provided an image (for use by the Community) that abides by Wikipedia guidelines of which I am the copyright holder of. What is the problem here? PopTalk (talk) 19:37, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because as per the terms of use you must disclose your conflict of interest. So how is it that you don't know someone yet managed to take a professional photograph of them? Or are you not, in fact, the copyright holder? CUPIDICAE💕 19:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ever taken a photo of someone you do not know? In any case, knowing someone (which I do not, in this case) does not necessarily imply a COI as defined by Wikipedia: being compensated by a person to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Again, I have not been compensated. Are you done now? PopTalk (talk) 19:55, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've never taken a professional photo of someone and then proceeded to write an exaggerated article about them, filled to the brim with blackhat SEO as sources and then edit warred about a tag without bothering to discuss it. So how is it that you managed to take a professional photo of someone without having any sort of connection? CUPIDICAE💕 19:56, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The connection is that a photo was taken, but the issue is whether the act of editing a page involves being compensated for editing a page. It's quite clearly possible to take a photo of a subject and make factual *non-compensated edits* to a subject's page, which is the case here. What else would you like to discuss? PopTalk (talk) 20:04, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You posted on commons that you operate/work for Global Positioning Services . So care to explain how your edits abide by the terms of use while editing articles about artists which your company represents or would you like me to take this to WP:COIN? You created or heavily edited Ryan Freeland, David Sitek, Dave O'Donnell, Billy Bush (record producer) and countless others despite being warned about conflicts of interest and the paid editing policy several times in the last 5 years. Is this direct enough for you? CUPIDICAE💕 20:13, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I'm not sure what you're referring to but it's possible to make factual edits about a page with which you have familiarity that does not involve being compensated. PopTalk (talk) 20:19, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Dave Sitek Producer.jpeg

Thanks for uploading File:Dave Sitek Producer.jpeg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

That's correct, a valid copyright license tag has been provided. PopTalk (talk) 19:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

I am the copyright holder, but have not myself previously published it elsewhere; thus, the following two points are not applicable.

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

I am the copyright holder; thus, this does not apply. PopTalk (talk) 19:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

A valid copyright license tag has been provided. PopTalk (talk) 19:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. CUPIDICAE💕 16:42, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

All points have been addressed. Please remove this or review Propositional_calculus. Best of luck. PopTalk (talk) 19:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]