User talk:Askloral

April 2023

Hello Askloral. 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:Askloral. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Askloral|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. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 19:15, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Askloral", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:29, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Given what you've posted at WP:THQ#Loral Langemeier page updates about your connection to Loral Langemeier's marketing team and your attempts to update the Wikipedia article about Langemeier either per her or her reperesentative's request, your chose of username "Askloral" (i.e. "Ask Loral") is kind of hard not to see as an attempt to promote Langemeier in some way. So, in addition to properly disclosing your connection to Langemeier as required per Wikipedia policy (see the thread right above this one), you should also change your username to something else. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:35, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

File:Loral headshot.jpg

File:Loral headshot.jpg that you uploaded to Commons has been tagged for license verification. Please follow the instructions given at c:User talk:Askloral#File tagging File:Loral headshot.jpg and have someone representing Langemeier email a verification of copyright holder c:COM:CONSENT to Wikimedia VRT. Please note that there needs to be some formal way to verify that the copyright holder has given their consent for their work to be uploaded in accordance with c:Commons:Licensing. Please also make sure that both you as the uploader and the copyright holder understand c:COM:LRV and c:COM:ENFORCE. It's important the copyright understand what it means to upload their work to Commons because basically the copyright holder is going to be giving their permission to allow anyone anywhere in the world to download the file from Commons at any time and reuse for any purpose (including commercial reuse and derivative reuse); moreover, once their work has been uploaded and verified, they can't change their mind at a later. Given that the same photo is also being used on Langemeier's official website, the copyright holder might not be willing to relinquish so much control over their work. Finally, unless you actually took this photo yourself, it's not your c:COM:Own work and you shouldn't be claiming it as such. If you didn't know this that's OK, but "own work" in this context means the person who actually took the photo (i.e. the copyright holder) and not the subject of the photo or anyone connected to the subject of the photo. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:46, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]