User talk:Funkpipe

The images you are adding are copyrighted. You uploaded them claiming then as your own work. They clearly came from the school website. I don't knik who you are, but in certain that unidentifiable random internet users are not empowered to release the school district's ownership of these images. Stop adding them. It is not only against policy, it's against the law. John from Idegon (talk) 17:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I work for the school. These images were created by the principal.

Right. That means the school corporation owns them. Not you. They are not your work, you just stated that here. You do not have the legal standing to release them, but yet you did, both in violation of our policies and the law. Since you uploaded these images to Wikipeda commons, claiming them falsely as your own property, you've removed the school's ability to control the use of these images. Everything uploaded to commons is free for reuse it modification by anyone for any purpose. Think you'll still have a job when a pot pot dispensary opens in your town using the school's logo in their advertising? That's what you've done. John from Idegon (talk) 17:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

December 2018

Your addition to Merrimack Valley High School has been removed, 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. John from Idegon (talk) 17:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Funkpipe. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Merrimack Valley High School, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Funkpipe. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Funkpipe|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. John from Idegon (talk) 18:12, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]