User talk:Lazamag
May 2020
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Your addition to Alex Prager has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 00:53, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:10, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
July 2022
Your edit to Alex Prager has been removed in whole or in part, 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 very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 14:54, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
File copyright problem with File:BTS Alex Prager TabithaDenholm.jpeg
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Thank you for uploading
Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:49, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! This image is ©ALEX PRAGER, Courtesy of Alex Prager Studio. I added it to the image description page. Let me know if I ned to do anything else. Thanks! talk) 01:08, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- Please take the time to read free licenses that Wikipedia accepts are ones in which the copyright holder is giving their consent to pretty much allow anyone anywhere in the world to download the file at anytime and use for any purpose (including derivative and commercial uses) without needing to get separate permission to do so. So, if the copyright holder doesn't want to agree to this, they shouldn't give their CONSENT. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:19, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- Understood! I just contacted VRT and sent an email to give consent. Thanks. talk) 01:36, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- One thing you need to understand is that giving your CONSENT doesn't automatically guarantee that the file will end up being used in ]
- To add to that, it would be useful to know why Prager objects to the earlier photo. I can't see anything obviously problematic with it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:53, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- This is not reflective of Prager's professional likeness. That earlier photo was taken as a personal portrait and should not be used for professional purposes. talk) 02:04, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- What you and Prager need to understand asap is that Wikipedia is also not to be used for her professional purposes. The article about her is not to be considered part of her social media presence. You might want to take a look at WP:BLPIMAGE, but otherwise what's best for Wikipedia's purposes is what usually ends up being chosen. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:10, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- What you and Prager need to understand asap is that Wikipedia is also not to be used for her professional purposes. The article about her is not to be considered part of her social media presence. You might want to take a look at
- This is not reflective of Prager's professional likeness. That earlier photo was taken as a personal portrait and should not be used for professional purposes.
- To add to that, it would be useful to know why Prager objects to the earlier photo. I can't see anything obviously problematic with it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 01:53, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- One thing you need to understand is that giving your CONSENT doesn't automatically guarantee that the file will end up being used in ]
- Understood! I just contacted VRT and sent an email to give consent. Thanks.
- Please take the time to read
Undisclosed paid editing
![Information icon](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Information.svg/25px-Information.svg.png)
Hello Bvpicts. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Alex Prager, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Bvpicts. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bvpicts|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:20, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- Based upon some of your recent posts, it appears that you not only have a pretty intentions if any connection between you and Alex Prager subsequently comes to light. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:28, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- Hello! I am not being paid. I am the studio director of Alex Prager and am the sole owner of this image. I just sent the appropriate permissions email to permissions-enwikimedia.org. Thanks! talk) 01:35, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- As the studio's director you're going to be considered to have a ]
- Okay so I cannot upload this photo on her behalf? Who can upload this image? talk) 01:42, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- You can upload the photo on her behalf as long as the copyright holder is giving their WP:COIADVICE before editing any content about her in any Wikipedia articles. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:50, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- Okay please let me know how to go ahead and give consent as the copyright holder beyond what I have already sent. Thanks! talk) 02:05, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- Just a quick note, as you have a COI with the topic (and declared so) you shouldn't edit Alex Prager directly (which is I think what the original post was referring to). Once you have sorted out the copyright problems and such, you should instead request the change of photograph on Talk:Alex Prager. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:16, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
- Okay please let me know how to go ahead and give consent as the copyright holder beyond what I have already sent. Thanks!
- You can upload the photo on her behalf as long as the copyright holder is giving their
- Okay so I cannot upload this photo on her behalf? Who can upload this image?
- As the studio's director you're going to be considered to have a ]
How VRT works
Let me add a little bit more explaining how VRT verfication works. The copyright holder needs to send a "consent email" to Wikimedia's Volunteer Response Team (VRT) for verification purposes. You can find examples how such emails should be worded both at
- Okay great! I already sent that email and have received the automated reply with a VRT ticket number. I will wait to receive the next email from the VRT member. Thank you for your help! talk) 02:11, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- I've add the template {{WP:ICT/FL and they can pretty much be added in template form to file pages. The most commonly used licenses are Creative Commons licenses, but other types of licenses are possible. There are various Creative Commmons licenses and you can find out about them here and here. Most Creative Commons licenses (CC) are OK for Wikipedia's purposes, except for "no commercial reuse" (NC), "no derivative reuse" (ND) (or any combination thereto) types of licenses. Once you release something under a CC license is pretty much non-revocable and people will be able to reuse photo as long as they comply with the terms of the license even if they do so in a way that you or Prager might not like.You can try to place other restrictions on the resue of your photo, but these tend to be non-copyright-related and are not really a concern to the Wikimedia Foundation; so, you will be responsible for trying to enforce any such restrictions. Moreover, you will also be responsible for resolving any reuse issues outside of Wikimedia Foundation operated sites (e.g. English Wikipedia). In a nut shell, releasing your content under a free license doesn't transfer your copyright ownership to third-parties; rather, it's just making a version of said content much easier for others to use without having to contact you each time to get permission. So, as long as they're complying with the terms of the license you choose, there's very little (from a copyright standpoint) that you can do to stop them from continuing use to said content.So, if you've uploaded this photo just for use on Wikipedia or just for non-commercial types of uses, you should email VRT again, tell them you want to rescind your consent and then just let the file be deleted because there aren't really any do-overs once everything has been verified by VRT. Since Prager makes her living as a photographer/film maker and since you are running her studio, you both probably already know most of this or have people to help you with it; many people uploading files, however, don't and only realize what a "free license" means after it's too late and they start seeing their photos being used in ways they don't like. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:54, 8 November 2022 (UTC)]
- I've add the template {{
November 2022
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You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search
{{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}}
at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:
- Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
- Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Orange Mike | Talk 17:05, 8 November 2022 (UTC)![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Appointment_red.svg/48px-Appointment_red.svg.png)
Lazamag (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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- Hello. Thanks for sending those articles. I understand that Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. Moving forward, I will disclose my COI when involved with affected articles and will propose changes on talk pages (by using the {{request edit}} template), or by posting a note at the COI noticeboard, so that they can be peer reviewed. I didn't know this was the case but I do now. Thank you. If I still need to change my username I'd like to be apsbvp if that is okay. Thanks! 100.2.119.250 (talk) 16:56, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
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Lazamag (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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- Apologies! I will just respond on the other thread. 76.178.71.10 (talk) 20:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! Okay. How do I go about doing that? 100.2.119.250 (talk) 16:56, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
I'll note that "Studio 000" is almost certainly not an appropriate username. See
]- Understood! I would like to be apsbvp if that is an appropriate username. Thank you! talk) 20:34, 9 November 2022 (UTC)]
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Lazamag (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
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- I suspect that if your current username is viewed as unacceptable than this one would be as well - especially since I assume that the aps would stand for something like "Alex Prager ....". If you want a clearcut username that doesn't give away personal info, I'd suggest something like "Fakename at bvpicts/apsbvp" (obviously changing fakename to something fitting). Nosebagbear (talk) 16:42, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
- Understood! How about lazamg as a username? Thanks! 76.178.71.10 (talk) 20:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
- Apologies I was not logged in above. Can I change my username to lazamag? Thanks! talk) 20:10, 19 December 2022 (UTC)]
- Apologies I was not logged in above. Can I change my username to lazamag? Thanks!
- Understood! How about lazamg as a username? Thanks! 76.178.71.10 (talk) 20:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
- I suspect that if your current username is viewed as unacceptable than this one would be as well - especially since I assume that the aps would stand for something like "Alex Prager ....". If you want a clearcut username that doesn't give away personal info, I'd suggest something like "Fakename at bvpicts/apsbvp" (obviously changing fakename to something fitting). Nosebagbear (talk) 16:42, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Orangemike: as the blocking admin, are you satisfied with the explanation above about how the editor will address their COI, and the username change? Z1720 (talk) 03:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- Understood @talk) 17:08, 4 January 2023 (UTC)]
- The name is fine, as long as you understand that you can't be editing any Prager-related articles, even after disclosure of your COI. --Orange Mike | Talk
- Understood @
- @Orangemike: as the blocking admin, are you satisfied with the explanation above about how the editor will address their COI, and the username change? Z1720 (talk) 03:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- I have unblocked this account, per the discussion above. Please read the "Accept reason" section carefully to avoid further concerns. Z1720 (talk) 01:22, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
- Wonderful, thank you! Do I have to do anything else or will my username change automatically? Thanks! talk) 01:30, 6 January 2023 (UTC)]
- Please go to Special:GlobalRenameRequest to request the new username, and please wait until it is processed before editing other pages. Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 02:59, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Rename from "Bvpicts" to "Lazamag"
Rename from "Bvpicts" to "Lazamag" done -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:00, 7 January 2023 (UTC)