User talk:Justin at Sperry

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I actually replaced the logo (which I noticed that it was taken off your employers' website) with a vector version of it uploaded on Commons. The latter accepts company logos for as long as either they are simple text logos (and thus fall below the threshold of originality) or if your employers gave you permission to contribute to Commons under an OTRS process. Blake Gripling (talk) 23:19, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm

2. I noticed you added a bunch of new information to Noah Gundersen. Thanks - it makes the article a lot more interesting. A couple of bits match the No Depression article exactly, though [3], and that's not good. Wikipedia's serious about copyright, and articles need to be written by paraphrasing rather than using the exact wording from a source. The guide on close paraphrasing may help. Thanks. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 05:31, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BlackcurrantTea, thanks for your comments. I appreciate you calling this out! I was not aware that promotional paragraphs were being added to the Sperry Top-Sider article. As an employee of the brand, I occasionally go in to make edits to our brand's page and to related pages (i.e. Paul A. Sperry or Wolverine World Wide) but I do not log in using any other accounts, so edits of that nature are likely coming from another user. I will be certain to keep an eye out for any edits from other users that may include promotional language and I will be sure to adhere to these guidelines myself.

BlackcurrantTea, thank you for also pointing out the issues with the Noah Gundersen edits. I'm glad to hear that the edits helped to improve the page and apologize for my errors. I will review the guide you shared and will make edits to paraphrase the lines from the No Depression article. My understanding before was that if the source was cited, this would be adequate, however I can see now just in a brief reading of the guide on close paraphrasing that my assumption was incorrect. I am a rookie user so it seems like I have a lot to learn! Thank you very much for your assistance. Justin at Sperry (talk) 14:23, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Thank you for clearly stating you don't edit under other accounts or when logged out, and that you didn't add the promotional paragraph to the Top-Sider article. I didn't think you did; it didn't fit with things like your willingness to change your username and post the paid editing notice. Still, it's good to be on the record about it. I hope you'll enjoy editing Wikipedia and stick around. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 06:03, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Justin. The anonymous editors adding promotional text to

Hi BlackcurrantTea - that's annoying, so sorry to hear that. I don't know of anyone from Wolverine based out of Houston - our marketing teams are primarily Boston and Michigan based, and Sperry's PR team is based in NYC. Not sure about Keds' PR team though. It could be a fan, though it's odd that they would continually be making changes to two of our brands' pages. Many customers/fans don't know that the Wolverine brands are all related to one another. I'm wondering if maybe it is someone from an SEO agency, though unfortunately that would even be tough for me to track down given the size of our company. Is there any kind of warning message that you could post to the top of the page to try to prevent the editor from continuing to add promo text? Or can you block edits from users that are not logged in to an account? Justin at Sperry (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My thought about the fan was that maybe they're fond of casual/sporty shoes that were big in the 80s - on the Keds page they keep mentioning 'slouch socks' and talking about outfits. If they had a static IP address we could block that, but it keeps changing. I'm not aware of any warning messages for the pages that address this behaviour. If I run across one I'll add it.

Page protection's a short-term option for when things get worse. It keeps anyone who's not logged in (aka IP editors) from changing the page. Since many IP editors are helpful and contribute in a positive way, long-term protection's reserved for things like Arab-Israeli relations and biographies of controversial people. If you ever want to request it temporarily, go to

RFPP

. You'll need to show that the problems are recent, have happened repeatedly, and are continuing. We did that back in November for the Top-Sider page.

Oh well. It's annoying but relatively benign. We'll deal with it when it comes up. Thanks. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:54, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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