User talk:Promohed
Adding/updating Forbes information in Wikipedia articles[edit]
Could you please stop adding and/or updating Forbes information in Wikipedia articles, as you have done with Johann Graf. The net worth figure for Graf was correct two months ago, in January 2015, and your revision has removed "January 2015" and not replaced it with "March 2015". Forbes net worth figures update in real time, and we don't need to update them as often as every two months. Users can click through to the Forbes page if they want the up-to-the-minute number. You have also messed up the referencing.
Perhaps worst of all, there is a blatant "copy and paste" copright violation. Here is the text that was copied in its entirety from Forbes:
"Raised by his grandparents in a one-room flat with no running water, he apprenticed as a butcher and was expected to take over his family's butcher shop. Striking out on his own in 1974, Graf began importing American pinball machines to Austria via Belgium, then became an agent for a British slot machine company."
Please see Wikipedia:Copyright violations for details.
I don't doubt that that you meant well is adding or updating the articles, but it looks like I'm going to have to revert all or most of your changes. Sorry about that!
Here is the relevant [diff] Edwardx (talk) 19:11, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi EdwardX,
- Sorry about that, I'm still learning the ropes. How often should wealth information be updated? I just figured I'd work through the Forbes list and update as many as I can but if it's updated in real-time, seems like an impossible task.
- Also, with regards to copyright, am I okay to add information from copyrighted sources if I put it into my own words?
- I'll have to read through guidelines a bit more closely in future. Sorry again for adding to your workload.