User talk:Sibrianb

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June 2014

Hi! I wanted to let you know that I undid your changes to José Andrés. Most of your editing is impermissible under Wikipedia guidelines, as it constitutes Wikipuffery; see WP:PUFF for details. I also see that your only contributions have been to this article. If by any chance this means that you have a relationship with José Andrés or his businesses, then that would be another reason not to make any changes to the article, per WP:COI. --Larry (talk) 16:23, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Sibrianb, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to José Andrés has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 19:43, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help me!

{{help me}}

Please help me with... I am part of the communications team at ThinkFoodGroup, the company that Jose Andres owns and I wanted to update the information on his page specifically because some of it is inaccurate and there needs a lot of updating. All of the information I have been wanting to add was written by the company and I have been given permission to go ahead and post it. Can you please let me know what I need to do in order to be able to save the edits I make. Thank you

Sibrianb (talk) 21:10, 12 June 2014 (UTC) Brook Sibrian[reply]

To use information from another web page... Either

Use procedure at WP:DCM to semd in permission - remember to send from an e-mail domain related to the web site.
Remove all copyright notices from the web page and add the code at http://creativecommons.org/choose/results-one?license_code=by-sa&jurisdiction=&version=3.0&lang=en

Either one does exactly the same - there is no advantage in one method over the other - except the second one will be quicker. Ronhjones ^(Talk) 21:52, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

However, even if you go through this procedure, you must still follow Wikipedia guidelines. As noted above, the content you added was of a highly promotional nature, and may not be included in Wikipedia. Also as noted above, as someone who works for ThinkFoodGroup, you should not be editing the article at all. Instead, use the article's talk page to suggest changes. --Larry (talk) 23:27, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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