Kaushik Lakshman

October 2021

Hello Kaushik Lakshman. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, 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:Kaushik Lakshman. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kaushik Lakshman|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. DanCherek (talk) 07:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dan Cherek,

This is Kaushik Lakshman. Just wanted to clarify that I am an employee of the S P Jain Institute of Management And Research and part of their Central Communications Team. I have found some mistakes in the content of the Wikipedia page of the institute and hence was making edits to the page so that it has the latest, accurate up-to-date information about the institute. I am not being paid separately, over and above my general compensation as an employee by my employer, just for updating this particular Wikipedia page. It's just a part of an ongoing project, which we as a Communications Team are embarking on to ensure that the information related to the institute is updated in public domain.

Do let me know if I still have to make any disclosure or is it ok for me to edit my employer's page without disclosures. If there are disclosures I have to make please let me know what those are in light of this information I have just give you.

Thank you. Kaushik Lakshman (talk) 09:55, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 11:34, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Kaushik Lakshman! Your additions to S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research 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.

• 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 cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.

Hi Dan Cherek. Thnak you for pointing this out. I am an employee of the institute whose page's content I am editing. Much of the information I am taking has it's source on the institute's website which is in public domain. Can I cite the institute's website while making the edits? Kaushik Lakshman (talk) 10:01, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

• 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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.

Ok, so if I paraphrase and write and give citations to the source (which is the insititute's website in this case) that should work? Kaushik Lakshman (talk) 10:01, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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. DanCherek (talk) 07:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)