User talk:Lindsaymorle

Do not use Wikipedia for promotional use

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to CRS Racing. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. The³5₉ (Talk) 21:53, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Although it is quite clear that you are the media manager for CRS Racing, we cannot allow you to use our Wikipedia article on CRS Racing for your media relations. It is a conflict of interest for you to be writing about a company for which you presently are employed, as it will likely lack Wikipedia's standards of neutrality and formatting.

Further, you cannot upload logos for the team, even if you are their employee, and claim them as your own work. This is a violation of Wikipedia copyright policy and your logo needs to be removed from Commons, re-uploaded to Wikipedia under a Fair Use rational, and then it may be usable. Also, be aware that this also applies to your edits to Darren Turner. The³5₉ (Talk) 21:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi - I answered this on your talk page a few days ago. Please can you get back to me...thanks. Lindsaymorle (talk) 17:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, both articles are currently out of date, and need to be updates, but there are several problems with your complete erasure of the previous versions and your rewrite, even if it was up to date.

First and foremost, Wikipedia has a strict policy of neutrality, meaning we cannot enter our points of view, or the points of view of others. Opening your article on Darren Turner with "one of the UK’s most successful and experienced racing drivers." is only the beginning of this promotional speak which provides no encyclopedic value in that article. Please read WP:NPOV for more information.

Second, you cannot simply copy and paste material from one element to another. Entire sections of the CRS article are copied directly from the CRS website. This raises questions of copyright infringement and is strictly against Wikipedia policy. Even if you were the one to have written these sections for the CRS website, it still should not be copied and pasted to Wikipedia. We are not an extension of the CRS website and our article should not simply be what CRS says about themselves.

Third, you completely removed any sources from the CRS article, things which do back and verify what had been previously written. Wikipedia requires sources to function, neither of your rewrites contains any sources and your removal of valid sources is counterproductive. Articles must be cited, especially if any statement can be viewed as questionable, and this applies twice as much to biographies of living persons.

Fourth, you also removed any and all wikilinks from the articles, making them useless for any read who wishes to find out more about any subject mentioned in the articles.

I suggest that if you wish to continue to edit Wikipedia, and not solely for the purposes of promoting those that you work for, that you start small and make corrections or updates, but not rewrite entire articles. The³5₉ (Talk) 18:20, 17 March 2010 (UTC)