User talk:DashGraham

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June 2019

This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Hiding Amazon URLs inside citation templates is sneaky and not OK. Drmies (talk) 01:35, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

• @Drmies: - Thank you for editing my contribution. I did not realize that the links I was inserting were considered span. I thought it was evidence of the book. I hope this will not cause me to be blacklisted. I will do more reading about how to use Wikipedia and post more questions. Can you respond so I know you've seen this? I'm not sure how to communicate with you... (DashGraham (talk) 14:34, 27 June 2019 (UTC))
  • I'm sorry, but that an Amazon link can be considered spam shouldn't require much explanation. "Evidence" of the book's existence isn't all that big a deal, and the ISBN covers that. Real evidence, which proves notability and noteworthiness, is provided by evidence from secondary sources. This, for instance, can't be considered a reliable review: it is not "published" in the sense that a review in a literary journal or a newspaper is published--with editorial oversight, etc. I'm all for poetry and poets, but it has to be done properly, meaning neutrally and with reliable, independent sourcing. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 16:14, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
    • @Drmies: Thank you. I appreciate your time on this. One question, did you mean to write "A review in a literary journal or newspaper is published -- WITHOUT editorial oversight...." I want to make sure I understand this going forward.(DashGraham (talk) 17:53, 28 June 2019 (UTC))
      • No. Journals and newspapers have editorial oversight. For that link you provided, I cannot find such a thing. Drmies (talk) 18:56, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
        • @Drmies: I think I made an error when I cited the source. It is https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-review/ - This group is providing editorial oversight. I think this would allow me to cite the review as a secondary source of Patricia Clark's significance. Do you agree? (DashGraham (talk) 19:07, 28 June 2019 (UTC))

Well, Colorado Review has a WP-article, though it's a poor one that should possibly be deleted. But it seems like a genuine magazine. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Something like "Sunday Rising received a positive review in Colorado Review" may be WP:DUE, if that website and the magazine are considered the same thing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:33, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Gråbergs Gråa Sång - I've emailed the librarians with the Seattle Public Library to confirm the review ran in the literary journal and will be back in touch when I have more infomration. Thank you! (DashGraham (talk) 23:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC))

References

Ping backs

@Drmies: How do these work? I would love to better understand this. Can you help me?

Hello! There are several ways, for example you can write {{replyto|Drmies}} which turns into @Drmies:. But for this to work (not just be a bluelink), you also have to properly WP:SIGN your message in the same edit or else it doesn't work. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:13, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: can you tell me if this is correct as a ping back? (DashGraham (talk) 17:49, 28 June 2019 (UTC))

Yep, it worked! An even shorter one is {{u|Gråbergs Gråa Sång}}. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:08, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Discover Cooking with Lavender, from its old location at User:DashGraham/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Sam Sailor 23:26, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Your addition to United States Lavender Growers Association appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. The first sentence of your article is copied from https://www.uslavender.org/. That is not allowed. You must rewrite it. UrbanToreador (talk) 22:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

DashGraham Since you have been editing but have not fixed the copyright violation, I rewrote the lead paragraph for United States Lavender Growers Association. Please do not copy text from other websites into Wikipedia articles, thanks. UrbanToreador (talk) 20:15, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

UrbanToreador I very much appreciate this and will be more careful moving forward. I will NOT copy text from other websites into Wikipedia! (DashGraham (talk) 23:17, 1 July 2019 (UTC))

Your submission at Articles for creation: Discover Cooking with Lavender (July 1)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DGG was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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DGG ( talk ) 07:44, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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Your thread has been archived

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Proposed deletion of United States Lavender Growers Association

The article United States Lavender Growers Association has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no realevidence of notability

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. DGG ( talk ) 01:05, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

DGG I've added one source. I am wondering if the name of the entry should be changed to U.S. Lavender Growers Association. What are your thoughts on this? (DashGraham (talk) 23:28, 3 July 2019 (UTC))

I have no informed opinion, but the WP-thinking on this is WP:COMMONNAME. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:39, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Frank X. Shaw

The article Frank X. Shaw has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Corporate PR writing about itself in a highly promotional way. Simply being associated with Microsoft does not make the person notable.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Jonathan Sposato has been accepted

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Pam Edstrom (December 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Curbon7 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Curbon7 (talk) 05:16, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020

Hello DashGraham. The nature of your edits 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:DashGraham. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DashGraham|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. Blablubbs|talk 23:34, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

 Note: Answered on my talk page, see here. Blablubbs|talk 20:52, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Pam Edstrom (December 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MurielMary was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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MurielMary (talk) 11:31, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Pam Edstrom

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:02, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Pam Edstrom

Hello, DashGraham. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Pam Edstrom".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)