User talk:Georgek98

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Georgek98. 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 conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

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Per your note on my talk page here, you are the creator of covid19livespread.com, therefore you have a conflict of interest. As such, you do need to declare your COI on your User page and should not reference the site on any articles. Rather, you should make an edit request (instructions above) mentioning your COI along with your suggested changes. S0091 (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright

Hi, and thanks for offering your image for Wikipedia use. But as Wikipedia content is licensed for online reuse by anyone, the content you wish to offer must be freely licenced for anyone else to use. The procedure for donating copyright content to Wikipedia is described at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:41, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021

This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.

Stop adding your website to articles. S0091 (talk) 17:30, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Adding my website link and providing useful information is not spamming. So you think that citing the original author of the material is classified as "spamming"? There was another user who converted my website link to reference which was the correct way of going about it. Do not remove the original author from the content as the reader needs to know where the material is coming from. Second of all, you have incorrectly labelled my edit and the other user's correction include the reference as spamming and you gave me a warning for "citing" the author. On your article, I have seen a few images which are cited to the reference link with numbers and you are now reverting the other user's correction? You are making a big mistake here. Georgek98 (talk) 18:03, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Per the COI notice above, you should not be adding your website to articles which you have done across many COVID articles instructing readers to visit your site. That is in fact spamming. What you need to do is to declare your COI and make edits requests on the articles' talk pages so editors can assess your website to determine if it is a reliable source, thus should be cited. S0091 (talk) 18:23, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Can you give me an example on how to disclose my COI? I have read the links by I am still unsure how to do it. I need to make sure I am doing this correctly. Georgek98 (talk) 18:35, 23 January 2021 (UTC)