User talk:Zootroy3

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Hello, Zootroy3, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice 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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Zoo Montana

Thank you for your contributions to the article. I have checked out the source and cited as required by Wikipedia (see WP:CITE). In doing so, I realized that the two new sections that you added are just copied and pasted from the two Websites. This is a copyright violation (see WP:COPYVIO), and is not allowed on WikiPedia (contrary to popular belief, there are rules to editing here). I have reworded to avoid the copyright violation. In the future, please cite any information you add, and write it in your own words. Thank you. Don Lammers (talk) 00:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Zoo Montana logo

Thank you for trying to contribute a logo to Wikimedia commons for use in this article. However, there are at least two things wrong with how this was done:

First, the uploaded file is huge (almost 1MB), and thus loads very slowly. Since it is a simple graphic that will be displayed in about 75x100 pixels, this is overhead that the article does not need. I have replaced this in the article with a version that I got from the Web site using Windows Snip.
Second, the copyright attribution is inadequate. You cannot just declare that you own a work that is clearly already on a Web site of a company or organization. This is copyright violation pure and simple (even if you did, in fact, create the logo, the company generally owns it, and you can't prove that you created the logo). There are ways around this on Commons, which I have never used, but which allow release of material from an organization to commons, but a simple declaration is not adequate. Even fair use images are not allowed on Wikimedia Commons, though they are on Wikipedia. I uploaded my file to Wikipedia, and have properly attributed the version that I posted as "fair use", to be used ONLY on the article page.

Please carefully read the information above about conflict of interest. If your claim about being the creator of the logo is true, you are obviously in such a position, and you really should be careful about what you post. If you want changes made, you should probably post them as requests on the talk page with pointers to where other editors might find the information that you are proposing be added. Thank you. Don Lammers (talk) 16:52, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to think hard about releasing your logo to commons. Remember that anyone can do anything with it once you release it there. Generally the purpose of a logo is exactly the opposite -- you want it top be a unique identifier to your organization. The way I have put it in the article, your copyright is still protected and the logo is legitimately used for its main purpose of identifying the organization. Don Lammers (talk) 18:15, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]