User talk:Floridaeta

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Hello, Floridaeta, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia

Your addition to O'Neal Steel has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. —C.Fred (talk) 18:56, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If O'Neal Steel wishes to donate the text from their website, they will need to explicitly state on the website that the material is under Creative Commons license or in the public domain—and is free to be used by anybody. This includes commercial re-use of the text; they will lose the ability to control who uses that text about them, so long as they attribute the source of the text. Alternately, they can send an email to Wikipedia's OTRS volunteer team stating that they release the text under a CC license or into the public domain.

A better approach would be to rewrite the history in new text. If it's "purpose-written" for Wikipedia, it will automatically be under the Creative Commons and GFDL license. In either case, nothing prevents other editors on Wikipedia from rewording, changing, adding to, or removing from the article, so long as it's done in a good-faith effort to improve the article. (Or, in the case of my reverts, to comply with Wikipedia policy regarding non-free text.) However, since you have admitted your conflict of interest in the company, it may be better for you to just provide links to independent reliable sources, such as newspaper and magazine articles about the company, and let independent editors expand the article. —C.Fred (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More on editing when you have a conflict of interest

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article O'Neal Steel, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 21:59, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]