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File permission problem with File:Abu Dhabi Global Market, part of the UAE government.gif

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Email with necessary approval and information was sent Sunday, 4 August 2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notanothercliche (talk • contribs) 08:10, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my comments about that in my reply below. -- Begoon 17:53, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Notanothercliche. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Abu Dhabi Global Market, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Begoon 06:29, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your query

Hello I'm unsure what the correct method to write to you is. Please bare with me. I work for Abu Dhabi Global Market, and our page keeps getting reverted to very old information. Can you please assist me in understanding why? conflict of interest was mentioned, but we are employees of this government entity and trying to update the content to reflect the current information. I have also emailed to 'permissions-en@wikimedia.org' regarding the use of our company logo, so I hope that will be approved. Any additional assistance you can offer me would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much! Sincerely, Rachel Mc Nally, rachel.mcnally@adgm.com Notanothercliche (talk) 08:07, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite sure what you are asking me that isn't already covered at the above linked advice pages, but briefly:

You must make a declaration of paid editing - see the links above. You should do this before making any other edits. See WP:PAID.
Repeating the other points above, we ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
- disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
You have claimed that the image is public domain. I find this unlikely. The only way to use the logo outside of our non-free constraints would be for the organisation to license it under a compatible free license, without restrictions, even on commercial re-use or derivatives, for use anywhere - not just on wikipedia. As you'll appreciate, most organisations are not willing to do that because of the real possibilities it would open up for use of their brand image in ways of which they would not approve, and against which they would then have no legal recourse. If the image cannot be used under a free license, see WP:Non-free content
If the organisation did wish to donate under a free license, even with all the concerns I note above, then the authorised copyright holder (not you) would need to follow the procedure at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials precisely. Emails not verifiable as being from the actual copyright owner or not following the procedures laid out there will not be acceptable. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, as should you - there are legal implications both for Wikipedia and for you if copyrights are violated.
You may not copy text or images directly from other websites. See WP:Copyright. See my note above about copyright, and donating copyrighted materials - the same thing applies to text as to images, except that, even with permission, we will not publish large verbatim copies of previously published material, for reasons of plagiarism and general good practice - and because this is an encyclopedia, so content written for other publications is rarely of the correct tone and content. Content needs to be written in your own words. The external sources may be used as references but not verbatim sources of text. A few, short, limited direct quotations may be acceptable, in context.
You may not edit for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything. You may not feel your content is promotional, but what you have tried to contribute so far is massively promotional, full of marketing-speak and proclaiming the virtues of your organisation. Because you work for them you will find it hard to see this, which is why we ask that you do not edit the article(s) concerning your organisation yourself but instead suggest edits on the article talk page.

I know that seems like a lot to absorb, but you really do need to familiarise yourself with the material I have linked above as editors who do not comply with our WP:PAID and WP:COI policies are often blocked from editing. Thank you. -- Begoon 08:28, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Abu Dhabi Global Market

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Abu Dhabi Global Market, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Hello, Notanothercliche. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.Deb (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:

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Deb (talk) 16:55, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]