User talk:Sbirch1973

August 2015

Hello, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. You are, of course, very welcome to start contributing to the encyclopaedia. However, you should be aware that Wikipedia is not a business directory, or a medium for businesses to publish pages to publicise themselves: a business's own web site can do that, and there are also various web sites that exist for precisely that purpose, but Wikipedia is not one of them. Indeed, Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest strongly discourage editors any editor from writing about any subject in which they have a close personal involvement, such as their own business. Certainly, any content which appears to exist for advertising purposes is liable to be subject immediate deletion. Another important point to be aware of is the issue of copyright. I see that the text you posted to your user page is to be found at www.bestforextraders.co.uk/currency-solutions/. Whenever you post anything to Wikipedia you are agreeing to license it for re-use under very open terms: essentially, you give permission for anyone to re-use it, either as it is or modified in any way they choose, for any purpose (commercial or non-commercial), subject to attribution to Wikipedia. There are very few businesses that are willing to license their web site content under such broad terms. In the rare examples when a business is willing to do so, it is essential for us to have proof that it is: we cannot accept the word of someone who just creates a Wikipedia account and tells us "it's OK, I own the copyright", because there is no guarantee that they do. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 07:44, 21 August 2015 (UTC)