User talk:Laurenmvaccaro

March 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Sean Landers. 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 your sandbox. Please do not remove maintenance templates without fixing the underlying issues. Also please do not add unreferenced content to a WP:BLP. There are strict guidelines and policies for biographies of living persons, the reason for this is to insure and maintain the integrity of the encyclopedia. Netherzone (talk) 17:58, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Laurenmvaccaro. 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:Laurenmvaccaro. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Laurenmvaccaro|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. Netherzone (talk) 22:39, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Netherzone,

I am the Archivist at Petzel Gallery and I have been asked to update the Wikipedia pages of all the artist we represent to ensure corrected and current information is listed on their pages. I wish to not encounter this issue as I continue editing the pages for the following artists:

Thank you 208.105.75.150 (talk) 14:27, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for disclosing your Conflict of Interest. Please read and abide by the guidance at WP:COI.

You will need to stop directly editing the articles with which you have a COI, and instead use the Edit Request System. Detailed information on how edit requests are formulated and made can be found here: WP:ER.

Once you have read and understood that content, as a newer user, it is recommended that you use the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard. (See WP:ERW. There you will find three choices; since you are paid by your employer to "update" these articles you should chose Edit Request Wizard/Paid to make your requests. More information on how to use that tool to make requests is found here: Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard/Paid.

Please keep your requests brief, and include a reliable source that is fully independent of the artist/gallery to back up the claim. Please be patient, as there are many requests made daily, and only a certain number of volunteers to vet the requests, analyze the sourcing and fulfill requests (or not).

Please note that promotional or advertorial content is not permitted.

I assume the IP 208.105.75.150 is you, Laurenmvaccaro. Please edit while logged in. Thank you. Netherzone (talk) 18:13, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Laurenmvaccaro! Your additions to Emily Mae Smith 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.
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.
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. Please 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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 22:27, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa,

I work at the gallery that represents Emily Mae Smith. I am the Archivist at Petzel Gallery and have been asked to update the pages for the artist we represent. I am simply pulling our own information and citing it where applicable. 208.105.75.150 (talk) 14:20, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If the copyright holder wishes to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Requesting copyright permission for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. Don't add copyright material to Wikipedia unless it's compatibly licensed.

Also, you need to add the template to your userpage that shows that you are being paid to edit Wikipedia. I see you've added a note; that's not sufficient. Add this instead: {{paid|user=Laurenmvaccaro|employer=Petzel Gallery}}. — Diannaa (talk) 14:55, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]