User talk:Biletnikoffaward

Fred Biletnikoff Award

You recently added content to Fred Biletnikoff Award that appears to have been copied verbatim from this web site: http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff and http://biletnikoffaward.com/about_award. You should read and familiarize yourself with the policy. Further violations of this policy may result in your being blocked from editing on Wikipedia. In addition, and given your user name, questions have been raised as to whether you have a conlict of interest with respect to editing the Biletnikoff Award article; in this regard, see WP:CONFLICT. Such copying is a violation of WP:COPYVIO. If you are affiliated with the Biletnikoff Award or its sponsor, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation, Inc. (TQCF), you are required per WP:DISCLOSE to disclose this information on your user page, on the article talk page, and during any discussion about the topic elsewhere. Cbl62 (talk) 07:22, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Biletnikoffaward. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Fred Biletnikoff Award, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
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In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Last but not least: All contributors must not contribute content that violates conflict of interest laws (just as all contributors must respect copyright). The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive is valid throughout the European Union. In a German court decision in 2012 (that also relied on the directive) regarding Wikipedia: "The court held that when a company edits a Wikipedia article, the resulting text falsely creates the impression that the edit has no business-related purpose. By implication, the judges found that the average reader of Wikipedia articles expects to find objective and neutral information." That is a very very important condition, comparable to the FTC Guide" that consumers are likely to believe reflects the opinions, beliefs, findings, or experience of a party other than the sponsoring advertiser”. This expectation by consumers of neutral information on Wikipedia, requires that companies not write "their" WP articles for PR/marketing purposes.

Editors who are compensated for their contributions should make the disclosure by placing the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template at the top of the talk page of affected articles and filling in the parameters. They should also supply this information as part of a list on their user page of all their paid contributions.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 10:07, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]