User talk:GWP78

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Hello, GWP78, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Gareth W. Peters, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello GWP78! Your additions to Chain-ladder method have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Our policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 23:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Dear Diannaa,

I disagree with this decision as the material added is factual, scientific and not plagiarised. This was my own writing and contained relevant references to material of direct relevance to the wikipage in question. I dont see why it should be removed as you claim. In addition, simply deleting my content seems unusual? GWP78 (talk) 00:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi GWP78, you're probably looking for the bullet point starting with "If you own the copyright to the source" above. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:24, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Deleting material that violates our copyright policy is not unusual at all. Patrollers do so dozens of times every day.

If you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa (talk) 12:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Sentences written were not violating copyright. Furthermore, the material added was directly content I wrote and is in the public domain. In anycase, this seems pointless to add material as it seems a pattern of deleting relevant material from experts who wrote the material themselves and are trying to improve deficient pages on wikipedia with regard to technical content. If you dont want to put the material I wrote back up - thats fine. Wikipedias loss. GWP78 (talk) 17:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Are you sure about "public domain"? Elsevier seems to disagree at [1]. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)