User talk:Marketing Employee

February 2013

Hello, Marketing Employee. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
Be cautious about deletion discussions. Everyone is welcome to provide information about independent sources in deletion discussions, but avoid advocating for deletion of articles about your competitors.
Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:16, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Let me personalize that information a bit more, Marketing Employee. I assume you're user:Health Canada? If so, thank you for creating a more distinct account name! However, no matter what your username, you're going to need to be very cautious of whether the edits you're making are encyclopedic. While we don't bar marketing, etc employees from editing their clients' articles, we do ask them to be very, very aware of whether their edits are neutral or promotional, and whether they're more spam than useful. Your edits so far are relatively inoccuous, but I want to make sure you know that if you begin to use your edits to promote your company, rather than just to inform about its encyclopedic qualities, you may be blocked from editing for real. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 16:22, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"See also" sections

Hi Marketing Employee. I've noticed that you have been adding links to non-existent articles ("red links") to "See also" sections in several articles, but our manual of style states that this shouldn't be done. Please see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout#See_also_section for details. Thank you. Deli nk (talk) 17:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To reinterate, please stop adding non-existant articles to "See also" sections. Thank you. Deli nk (talk) 11:19, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem at Marketed Health Products Directorate

Hi there, I moved this article to the correct capitalisation, but I've had to remove virtually all of the text and rephrase what remained as it had been copied and pasted from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/pubs/medeff/_fs-if/2008-mhpd-dpsc-overview-apercu/index-eng.php. We cannot accept text copied from other sources unless it has been released under a compatible license. That Canadian government website, does not allow commercial use of their text (see [1]), thus it cannot be accepted here. All text on Wikipedia is licensed for free commercial use. Please do not re-add it. You are welcome to expand the article but you must do so in your own words. I'm going to place a standard message below which will explain more about this to you. Best, wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:33, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Marketing Employee, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 16:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Re: How do I activate a page?

Good morning.Firstly I would like to thank you for all your help. I submitted a question earlier this week and you provided help and guidance the same day. Thanks so much for that, it makes my work much easier as I am a new editor.

My question today is, on the Marketed Health Products Directorate page, when you click on Français on the left nav bar, you are connected to Santé Canada which is not correct. It should go to the French MHPD page La Direction des produits de santé commercialisés. However this page does not yet exist. I have submitted for approval the French text for this page but have not received approval or if I have, I do not know where to find it on WIKI. How should I proceed? Many thanks.Marketing Employee (talk) 15:48, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm going to remove that link until the article is created. However, you cannot create an article in French on the English Wikipedia. We only accept articles in English. You have to create it on the French Wikipedia. However, your draft Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/La Direction des produits de santé commercialisés was deleted yesterday as a copyright infringement. It was pasted in from the French version of the MHPD website. I've explained above why we cannot have text from that website on Wikipedia. The French Wikipedia has the same rules. So, if you do create it on the French Wikipedia, it must be in your own words, not copied from another website. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 16:48, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Marketing Employee. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Voceditenore (talk) 16:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Hi, Again I would like to mention that I appreciate your help. I have now finalized the English and French text for the Marketed Health Products Directorate page. If you could please change the English paragraph above 'References' for this one:

As part of Health Canada, MHPD collects and analyzes reports of adverse health product reactions through its network of regional reporting centres and disseminates new health product safety information.

I tried but when I go into edit, nothing shows up on my screen.

Once this is corrected may I proceed with creating links to this page?

I will try to resubmit the French text for approval and ask to have the page created. Will they notify me directly when the page is created and if the text has been approved? Many thanks. Marketing Employee (talk) 18:24, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Warning

You are clearly trying to promote a Canadian organization, so adding random links to articles which have no connection with Canada is not a good idea. . . Mean as custard (talk) 13:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, Marketed Health Products Directorate is a Canadian government agency (of which this editor says she is an employee), not an NGO or private company. Linking to that article in a "See also" section can be appropriate in articles about similar government agencies in other countries, or in some articles on the general area of Pharmacovigilance. But, Mean as custard is right, you should not be linking to that agency's own website in "External links" sections of other articles. WP:External links will explain to you why not. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:15, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice.

I need to have the French link on the left nav bar added to my Marketed Health Products Directorate page. It is called La Direction des produits de santé commercialisés. The French page is already created it just needs to have the link to the English page. Many thanks. Marketing Employee (talk) 13:04, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added it but note that the correct title of the article on the French Wikipedia is:

Direction des produits de santé commercialisés

An editor there rightly moved it to a new title without the "La". Best, Voceditenore (talk) 13:55, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]