User talk:WriterFly

File permission problem with File:Peter Sklar Lecture.png

Thanks for uploading File:Peter Sklar Lecture.png, which you've attributed to Peter Sklar. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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File permission problem with File:Peter Sklar with young stars.png

Thanks for uploading File:Peter Sklar with young stars.png, which you've attributed to Peter Sklar. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 14:48, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Peter Sklar Biography Photograph.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Peter Sklar Biography Photograph.jpg, which you've attributed to Peter Sklar. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 14:57, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Sklar (August 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sulfurboy was:

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Peter Sklar and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also get Wikipedia's Live Help real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Sulfurboy (talk) 09:22, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! WriterFly, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 09:22, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Sklar (August 14)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hell in a Bucket was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Hell in a Bucket (talk) 04:37, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! WriterFly, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Hell in a Bucket (talk) 04:37, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Peter_Sklar.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Peter_Sklar.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

Hi, thanks for noticing this problem. I submitted the permissions for this file a few weeks ago- here is the ticket number: [Ticket#: 2015080710015321]. Please let me know if I need to do anything else (i.e. re-upload the file, or write someone else to get it back). Thank you, WriterFly (talk) 17:47, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me, but I cannot find the talk page for this file (it does not exist anymore, it seems)... shall I upload it again, and post the ticket number on its new talk page? Thanks, WriterFly (talk) 18:04, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Peter Sklar With Young Stars.png

Thank you for uploading File:Peter Sklar With Young Stars.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 13:13, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for noticing this problem. I submitted the permissions for this file a few weeks ago- here is the ticket number: [Ticket#: 2015080710015321]. Please let me know if I need to do anything else (i.e. re-upload the file, or write someone else to get it back). Thank you, WriterFly (talk) 17:47, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Peter Sklar With Young Stars.png

Thank you for uploading File:Peter Sklar With Young Stars.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 13:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for noticing this problem. I submitted the permissions for this file a few weeks ago- here is the ticket number: [Ticket#: 2015080710015321]. Please let me know if I need to do anything else (i.e. re-upload the file, or write someone else to get it back). Thank you, WriterFly (talk) 17:46, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Below, when I mentioned "the relevant talk page", I meant for example this one: File_talk:Peter_Sklar_With_Young_Stars.png, for the image discussed in this section. Jytdog (talk) 17:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, thanks! WriterFly (talk) 18:00, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, Jytdog. Thanks for your patience as I try to navigate this. I have posted the ticket number on the page for File_talk:Peter_Sklar_With_Young_Stars.png. Beyond that, all of my other image files were deleted, and they do not have talk pages (they don't exist). I still cannot access the file File_talk:Peter_Sklar_With_Young_Stars.png, and I can't add the ticket numbers to any of the other deleted files. When I tried to go through the undeletion request, it says that I should first settle this with the administrator who deleted the images (you?)... I would like to comply with all rules, and I do have permission to use the images, confirmed with the free license. Please help! Thanks, WriterFly (talk) 22:36, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - if you click on the file name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Sklar_With_Young_Stars.png you will see there that is says "If this file previously existed, it may have been deleted locally (local deletion log) or on Wikimedia Commons (Commons deletion log)." If you click on each of those links, you will see that one has an entry and the other doesn't. The user linked in the one with an entry, is the admin who deleted it. Does that make sense? (so many things to learn i know) Jytdog (talk) 00:58, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Generally

Hi WriterFly. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are all about Peter Sklar, and you have uploaded several images to the commons claiming that he has released them under the CC license, but there is no evidence that he has done so. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and questions for you below.

Hello, WriterFly. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Comments and question

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Peter Sklar? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Thanks!

You can reply here - I am watching this page. Once you do, we can take it from there. Thanks in advance for talking! Jytdog (talk) 13:29, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Jytdog (talk), thanks for your offer of assistance. I'll respond soon to the rest of your posts, but I'm unclear as to why the images I've uploaded have been speedily deleted. I obtained, as per the instructions, permission from the copyright holder, and forwarded those emails to the permissions email address @ Wiki. So, I was under the impression that I had followed all the necessary steps (I do still have records of the emails for each image I uploaded, from the copyright holder, agreeing to the free copyright agreement. Thanks. WriterFly (talk) 15:59, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying. On the relevant talk pages, please place a note that you sent permissions to OTRS. if you can include a ticket number that would be great. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 16:46, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking the time to help walk me through this. In answer to your earlier question, I have known Peter Sklar for over 16 years, and during this time have worked with and for him in various capacities. Since I have a bit of web savvy, and since I know him well, and since I have archived much of his media attention over the years and therefore am more familiar than anyone else with what has been said about him by credible sources, I offered to create his Wikipedia page, though not for compensation. I hope that gives you enough information for us to move forward with the conversation, and if you need more, please let me know-- thanks. WriterFly (talk) 18:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying on the COI issue. Your relationship with him does constitute a conflict of interest here in WP - based on what you say, you know a lot about him (which is great), but it will be hard for you to be really neutral due to the personal relationship.

Management of COI in Wikipedia has two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. The disclosure should go on the relevant article Talk page (which I already did for you), and on your user page (which is here: User:WriterFly). Would you please take care of adding the disclosure to your User page? What you wrote above, would do just fine.

The peer review" piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary. What we ask editors who have a COI to do, is a) if you create an article, submit it through the WP:AFC process so it can be reviewed before it publishes (you are doing this, which is great!). b) And if you want to change content in an existing article on a topic where you have a COI (for instance, on the article about Sklar once it is accepted), we ask editors with a COI to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement, instead of doing it directly themselves. You can do make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page ~~at Nautilus Productions for example~~ the draft article on Slar - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. You don't have to do that now, while the article is still in draft form - please just start doing that after it gets accepted. Does that makes sense? Jytdog (talk) 18:23, 17 August 2015 (UTC) (fix error per WP:REDACT Jytdog (talk) 21:10, 17 August 2015 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for this information, and especially for presenting it in an easy to follow, kind way. I have added the COI note to my personal user page, and I believe I understand the point about not editing the page myself once it is published-- one question on that: what if there is no one looking at the talk page for Peter Sklar, and I want to request changes? By posting the change request, does that guarantee that someone will make the change within a reasonable timeframe?

What it seems now is that I just have to get the page approved for publication (?) which has been challenging, since each time I've sent it for review the reviewer has cited different problems (the most recent problems were "too many photos" and the "detailed descriptions of the lecture" Perhaps as an experienced editor you might have some additional advice for me? I've gone through literally hundreds of reliable sources and crafted this biography from about 55. While it has a generally positive slant, it does actually reference every major thing that's ever been said about this topic in any reliable source-- in other words, I've basically crafted a chronological description of his life, not from my knowledge of it, but from things that have been said about him. Thanks for any insight you might have! WriterFly (talk) 21:07, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I will have a look tonight; in general when I work on COI issues with editors I try to stay out of content so the two levels of things don't get mashed up. But since you asked, i will look and see if i can help. Jytdog (talk) 21:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! WriterFly (talk) 21:15, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Peter Sklar has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Peter Sklar. Thanks! LaMona (talk) 18:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Sklar has been accepted

Peter Sklar, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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JSFarman (talk) 02:26, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

congrats! Jytdog (talk) 04:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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