User talk:Marc-antoine daneau
November 2009
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Yes, I work for François Robillard and Vision Montréal. I'm just putting online a basic wikipedia page because he was elected one week ago. I took his bio from the Vision Montréal and modified it to include the fact he was elected.
Regards Marc-Antoine Daneau, november 7 2009
Copyright and conflict of interest
[edit]I've deleted the article as it is a substantial copy of the copyrighted Vision Montreal page. You may not cut and paste from other websites. There are procedures for providing permission for a freely-licensed version for use on Wikipedia, and you may pursue this avenue if you wish. I'll post a link (once I find it) for a way to provide email assurance that Vision Montreal's copyright is respected while posting the content. You also have a conflict of interest in this matter, as noted above. Acroterion (talk) 03:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Take a look at WP:COPYVIO for general policies, and Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for means to donate copyrighted text that you have permission to use. Acroterion (talk) 03:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- Don't be discouraged, we just have to be extra-careful about respecting copyrights. M. Robillard appears to meet Wikipedia notability criteria. There's no reason the article can't be written from scratch, rather than re-using the problematic text - it would then become a source (although newspaper articles would be better). You still have the conflict of interest, and I would observe that employees of politicians have gotten unwanted publicity by editing their employers' bios, apart from Wikipedia policy. Acroterion (talk) 04:22, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Thank you again for your time. I'm aware of the conflict fo interest and the possibility of bad publicity. But if I don't put this online, who will? And I don't claim that he walks on water and will save the world, just that he've been elected as a city councillor.
Regards, Marc-antoine daneau (talk) 05:15, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- That's a reasonable way to put it. I declined the deletion request, as he meets Wikipedia's notability requirements. You should look at WP:RS for ways to add sourcing, as sourcing and attribution will still be needed for a quality article. Acroterion (talk) 05:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Your recent edits
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Indeed, I didn't know, thank you.
Marc-antoine daneau (talk) 04:55, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi! It seems you recently created an unreferenced biography of a living person: François Robillard. Our verifiability policy requires that all content be cited to a reliable source. Please add references as soon as possible. Thanks! --LaraBot (talk) 00:11, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
Unreferenced BLPs
[edit] Hello Marc-antoine daneau! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 265 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:
- François Robillard - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:30, 17 January 2010 (UTC)