User talk:Luthierthm

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Luthierthm, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Thomas Meuwissen has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Nthep (talk) 13:15, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your message at my talk page

You say you wrote the content as a press release. As I found it on the subject's Linkedin page I can only assume you are Thomas Meuwissen in which case please read the Wikipedia policies on Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You are strongly urged not to edit the page because of the risk of bias. Also Wikipedia articles are intended to give third party opinions of subjects, not the subject's own view so first hand sources are avoided except to affirm non-controversial basic information. Nthep (talk) 13:59, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Nthep,

I am the personal assistant of violin maker Thomas Meuwissen and responsible for the online information. Seeing it concers a biography instead of an autobiography I do not really see the problem. Kind regards, Loes Uytterschout (Luthierthm (talk) 14:10, 17 September 2015 (UTC))[reply]

Loes, you still have a conflict of interest and press releases are not neutral as required by Wikipedia policy. Please do not re-add the content. If you feel there are neutral improvements to be made that are supported by verifiable, reliable sources then please suggest them at the article talk page so that others can assess whether the changes do meet core policies and would be appropriate content to add. Nthep (talk) 14:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nthep,

I will make an other attempt in the hope of meeting your policy. (Luthierthm (talk) 14:30, 17 September 2015 (UTC))[reply]

Dear Nthep,

I would like to re-add the picture to which we bought the rights. Am I allowed to do that? (Luthierthm (talk) 14:50, 17 September 2015 (UTC))[reply]

If you are sure that the rights you bought meet the terms of the licence that you have uploaded the photo under then yes. Do you appreciate that the licence gives anyone the right to re-use the photo for any purpose (including commercial re-use) and other than attribution you have no control over the image's further use? Nthep (talk) 15:10, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]