User talk:Shaira Ofianga

September 2018

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 02:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

One of your recent additions 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Drmies (talk) 02:56, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Drmies (talk) 03:53, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You will not be unblocked unless you indicate that a. you understand our policies and b. you will abide by them. Majora, thank you for taking care of the file on the Commons end. Drmies (talk) 03:55, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Shaira Ofianga (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I, Shaira Ofianga, am personally requested by Anne Curtis herself to change her image on Wikipedia. I am part of her management team in Viva Artists Agency. You may contact the company itself at (02) 687 6181 to verify my employment. The image is from Anne Curtis herself, taken by herself and was posted on her Instagram account. She gave me explicit permission to use it for her Wikipedia profile. Articles such as those linked above merely grabbed the photo on her Instagram account. You can see that those articles attributed/cited the photo from her Instagram profile.

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
the block is no longer necessary because you
1. understand what you have been blocked for,
2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:59, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

(Non-administrator comment) I'm not an adminstrator so I cannot unblock you. However, based upon you wrote above, I think you need to carefully read through Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, in particular the section "Paid editing", as well as Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. Wikipedia articles are encyclopedic articles written about subjects deemed to be Wikipedia notable; they are not written for a subject as a way of promoting the subject and the subjects of articles have no final editorial control over what content (including images) is added or removed. In other words, Wikipedia doesn't just simply do what Anne Curtis wants because she wants it done. If she or her representatives have any issues with the article, they should follow the instructions given in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Dealing with articles about yourself and avoid editing the article directly except in some very specific cases.

Regarding your image uploads, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia are part of the same "family" so to speak, but they have slightly different policies when it comes to file uploads. Images uploaded to Commons must satisfy c:Commons:Licensing. Facebook, Instagram and other social media websites license their content in manner that is not compatible with Commons licensing requirements, so such images are pretty much never going to be accepted. Please refer to c:Commons:OTRS#Licensing images: when do I contact OTRS? for more information on what you need to do in order for such a photo to be accepted. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:30, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What Marchjuly says. Commons/OTRS will accept an email from the copyright holder, for instance--at least they did last time I checked. But that is really something you should first take up with Commons. All I can see, on this end, is that you were inserting improperly licensed material here and never bothered to explain what you were doing. Drmies (talk) 05:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I now understand the policy and will abide by them. Is there any way to lift the block so I can edit and change photo to the image used before I edit it? Just so there will be a photo visible while I advise the copyright holder to take the Commons/OTRS route. Thank you! -- Shaira Ofianga (talk) 05:32, 5 September 2018 (UTC) comment added by Shaira Ofianga (talk • contribs) 14:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your previous unblock request was still open, and another one wasn't really needed; so, I converted it to regular post per WP:TPG#Fixing format errors. Please try and remember to sign your talk page posts per WP:TILDE to make it easier for others to know it is you who's posting. You were blocked by an administrator, so an adminsitrator will need to review your unblock request.

Your account on Commons is not blocked, so you can still upload images there. However, I would be very careful in making sure that any future uploads are in accordance with c:Commons:Licensing; it's OK to make a mistake once or maybe even twice, but repeated uploads of copyright violating content will lead to your Commons account being blocked as well.

Once your account has been unblocked, you should make any proposal for changes to Anne Curtis at Talk:Anne Curtis, particularly any changes not considered to be minor edits according to WP:COIADVICE. As long as there are no further issues with Commons licensing requirements, you should be able to add an image to the article's main infobox; however, only do that when it's clear the Commons file has no licensing issues, not before. You can ask for help at c:COM:VPC if you want. When you add the image to the infobox make sure you leave a clearly worded edit sum explaining your edit. You should also mention that the edit is a paid contribution; then, post something similar on the aritcle's talk page. This is the best way to ensure that others will not mistake the adding of the photo for undisclosed paid editing. Finally, you should add a statement or template to User:Shaira Ofianga disclosing your employer and the client you're editing on behalf of. You can use Template:Paid to do this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:59, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the original image in the article. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 07:39, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion

You (or someone else at your agency, it doesn't actually matter) appear to have been evading this block under IP 203.87.156.188. As long as this block is in place, you, along with any other representatives of your agency operating at your behest, may not edit Wikipedia. Block evasion is a very effective way to decrease your chances of being unblocked. Yunshui ^雲 _水 15:46, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]