User talk:81.128.177.68

October 2024

Your edit to Watches of Switzerland 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 information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. 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. Dormskirk (talk) 13:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dormskirk - I work for The Watches of Switzerland Group plc and took material from our corporate website and the London Stock Exchange page (which we also have ownership over). Please let me know how we can move forward with these changes. Thanks, Martin 81.128.177.68 (talk) 15:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, 81.128.177.68. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Watches of Switzerland, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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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.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 15:32, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, thanks Dormskirk - the page is in dire need of a refresh, but I appreciate I cannot be the person to do so 81.128.177.68 (talk) 15:38, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - Please note (i) our conflicts of interest policy above (ii) material should be be sourced from "reliable, independent, published sources" (the company website is not independent of the company) and (iii) that copying and pasting from any copyrighted source is a breach of copyright. Dormskirk (talk) 15:37, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) There are multiple points to discuss here:

You cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia - even if you are the copyright holder, or have the copyright holder's permission - unless the material has been released for use by the verified copyright owner into the public domain or under a license compatible with Wikipedia. These licenses allow anyone — not just Wikipedia — to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work, free of charge and in perpetuity, provided that you are attributed as the author. Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for educational use or even for general non-commercial use. Releasing the material is both permanent and irrevocable.
Since you work for the subject that you're writing about, you are considered to be a paid editor and therefore bound by Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure policy. Please review this policy now to learn its expectations and preferred methods of disclosure.
The conflict of interest rules also apply to you. We advise that you not directly edit articles where you have a conflict of interest, but rather use the edit request wizard to request edits instead. This adds a layer of review by third-party editors to maintain Wikipedia's principles of neutrality and verifiability.

--Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at the edit request wizard. Thanks 81.128.177.68 (talk) 15:40, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The pitfall is that since you're editing anonymously, we have no guarantee that we are communicating with the same individual from this IP address at any given time. Your wisest course of action is to become a registered editor by creating an account, then disclosing as a paid editor, and then submitting edit requests. You will find the community here much more willing to help. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:58, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Drm310, that makes sense. Unfortunately, I do not feel comfortable disclosing payment, as essentially this would just be my annual salary... I work in the Investor Relations team and am just keen for any third party sources of information on the Watches of Switzerland Group plc to be up to date and accurate. I have no interest in putting positive spins on anything or using it as a way to market the business, purely my role is to ensure that shareholders and potential shareholders have clear visibility on what the company is doing. 81.128.177.68 (talk) 16:14, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you misinterpreted my last statement. We don't need to know the details of your compensation; we just need to know the fact that are paid for your editing here. This discussion here can be considered sufficient, although it is not very visible... and IP talk pages can be automatically blanked after a period of inactivity. Therefore there is a risk that your disclosure may, in time, be buried in this page's edit history and not plainly visible. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:53, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have now set up an account WOSGIR (talk) 08:10, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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