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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from IWG plc. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. – Aranya (talk) 20:32, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note for future reference: Non-COI editors have reached an agreement to delete the tag based on a thorough review and adjustments to Katherine's proposed text. P.S. to Katherine: please see the article talk page questions about map(s) and more practically useful photo set uploads, among less pressing issues. EllenCT (talk) 10:30, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I only look at one of these photos, but it was a photo of a building in the United States, uploaded with a fair use rationale. Wikipedia is quite strict about licensing. Although we do occasionally use photos under a non-free licence, we only ever do so where it would be functionally impossible to use or create a free photo for the same purpose. Unless the specific photo is so iconic it's discussed in other sources on the subjecct, these kind of photos aren't going to qualify them. WilyD06:02, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for uploading File:Mark Dixon CEO IWG.png. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:
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This user has a clear and undeclared conflict of interest.[1] I would suggest they have no interest in building an encyclopedia but are here solely to promote the commercial interests of their employer. KJP1 (talk) 22:15, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This user has very openly declared their conflict of interest, see Talk:IWG_plc. There's no reason to harass them without taking even a modicum off time to be aware of the relevant facts. WilyD06:39, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about the offended architect. You can prevent this problem by writing what you want people to know about you, including your employer and their brands, on your "user page" User:KatherineBusby2019 which is linked to in your signature. Turning it blue by writing something on it will let people know you aren't trying to abuse the system. EllenCT (talk) 23:59, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Would anyone be able to guide me through this process? I have a good idea of what the WiR is but not where to post an opportunity or in what format. Could anyone offer any guidance? --KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 12:22, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
EllenCT Internally, I am looking at offering volunteers free coworking space in exchange for support developing our Wikipedia pages. Do you know how I could set this up as a formal offer or WiR programme? I have no idea which page to publish this opportunity and reach out to potential volunteers. Could you help? --KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 15:21, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. I think this is a good idea and I will try to help, but we need to be discreet about it. A lot of people have knee-jerk reactions out of an abundance of caution, more than a rational view of what kinds of commercial articles are harmful and which serve the readers. Let me see if I can find someone closer to you who you may be able to meet -- you are based out of Barcelona, right? EllenCT (talk) 19:45, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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A tag has been placed on Draft:Regus (company), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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