User talk:Alpaps

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Alpaps! Your additions to Fikile Mbalula have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• 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 cite the source using an inline citation. 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.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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. DanCherek (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Copyright violation at Fikile Mbalula

Your edit to Fikile Mbalula has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. DanCherek (talk) 05:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Again, please stop copying text from other websites that are not compatibly licensed. DanCherek (talk) 03:49, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

How can an official parliamentary website have a profile of a Minister and yet the profile of the Minister you are taking reference from news media instead of Official Government Profiles? Could you explain this to me as not only this profile, but a few others are incorrect when looking at profiles. So if news media or websites run propaganda, it should be referenced as true and correct information? I would like to know how an official profile from a government website can not be the same as Wikipedia? I could change Copyright by re-writing the official profile? Alpaps (talk) 10:52, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles are generally built in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the article subject. Please see Wikipedia:Reliable sources for more information about this guideline. If a news platform runs "propaganda", then it probably wouldn't be considered a reliable source anyway. DanCherek (talk) 13:38, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and copyright

Hi Alpaps, I'll try posting here about this once more. There are two issues with your edits:

1. The biography from Fikile Mbalula's website is copyright, not compatibly licensed, and promotionally written. It cannot be added to this Wikipedia article.
2. You have stated on my talk page that you are "one of his advisors" [1]. You need to follow the guidelines detailed at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, including disclosing this relationship (on your user page, the article's talk page, or in an edit summary of an affected contribution), and it is recommended that you propose changes on the talk page of the article, at Talk:Fikile Mbalula.

Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 21:44, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:Alpaps, copyvio and promotional editing. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 06:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)