User talk:JudyMAdkins

Welcome!

Hello, JudyMAdkins, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Atheists of Florida, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{help me}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! 331dot (talk) 13:11, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would also ask you if you are affiliated with this organization in any way. If so, there are certain things you will need to do to comply with Wikipedia policies, depending on your level of affiliation. 331dot (talk) 13:12, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do serve on the board of directors for the Atheists of Florida. I will be glad to do whatever is necessary to comply with the policies JudyMAdkins (talk) 13:23, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's Terms of Use require you to clearly state on your userpage (or this user talk page) any paid affiliation you have; please review this for information on that. Even if you are not paid, you should review the conflict of interest policy. Generally, one should not directly edit in areas where they have a conflict of interest, instead suggesting edits on the article talk page, and submitting articles through Articles for Creation where they can be reviewed by uninvolved editors before posting.

I would also suggest reviewing this page which has information about organizations and Wikipedia. 331dot (talk) 13:33, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am a volunteer with Atheists of Florida, the organization has no paid staff and is completely volunteer run at this time.

Very good- as I stated above, please review(if you haven't already) and be very familiar with the conflict of interest policy. 331dot (talk) 19:42, 28 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Atheists of Florida

Hi, I'm Rasimmons. JudyMAdkins, thanks for creating Atheists of Florida!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. It is important to maintain an encyclopedic tone within articles, and the language used in this article, such as the first person, does not follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. R. A. Simmons ^Talk 13:27, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello JudyMAdkins, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Atheists of Florida has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. 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 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.
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.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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 or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate 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. — Diannaa (talk) 19:58, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I give up, I will delete this page and my id. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudyMAdkins (talk • contribs)

No one has asked you to give up or to delete anything(accounts cannot be deleted, and while you can blank a page that does not delete it), but can you understand the reasons that you are being told the above things? This would be a poor encyclopedia if people were permitted to directly write about themselves or their organizations (imagine President Obama writing his own article) and if people were permitted to simply copy content from elsewhere here. Neutral point of view and conflict of interest are important aspects of Wikipedia. There are ways for you to go about contributing information about your organization, but it needs to be done in the proper manner. If that's not something that you're up for, I respect that- but there are reasons things are the way they are. 331dot (talk) 21:38, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]