User talk:Mendokitties

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January 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mendocino Music Festival has been reverted.
Your edit here to Mendocino Music Festival was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/mendocinomusicfestival) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 04:17, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:Mendocino-MF-tent-hirez-3041a-NWilsonPhotoCom.jpg

Hello, Mendokitties!

It was really helpful of you to you to upload File:Mendocino-MF-tent-hirez-3041a-NWilsonPhotoCom.jpg. However, we need to properly format the image license information in order to keep and use new images.

If you can edit the description and add one of these templates, that would be great. If you're not sure how or would like some help, please ask us at the media copyright questions page and we'll be happy to assist you.

Thanks again! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 22:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Mendocino-MF-tent-hirez-3041a-NWilsonPhotoCom.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mendocino-MF-tent-hirez-3041a-NWilsonPhotoCom.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Spamming

Hello Mendokitties. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mendocino Music Festival, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:

• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Mendocino Music Festival, you may be blocked from editing. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:52, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

How does X work?

I do not know how to resolve the issue raised by Orange Mike. I am simply an unpaid volunteer for the Music Festival, and was asked to update the wikipedia page with current information. That is all I did. How do I fix the problem? And what do I need to do to use the photograph which I had put on the site and which is now gone, along with everything else I have spent hours editing? Thanks

Mendokitties (talk) 18:53, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is extremely resistant to being used for anything that looks like advertising or promotion. As you are editing on behalf of the festival you have, from our point of view, a conflict of interest, and should read that guideline and WP:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. In brief, suggest changes on the article talk page, don't make them yourself. As regards the photograph, the email to OTRS needs to come from the copyright holder, just asserting that you have permission is not enough. JohnCD (talk) 19:03, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Need more help please on conflict of interest

, I am sorry I have overstepped the policy on conflicts. I have read it and am now worried about how to properly update the information on Wikipedia, as I have been asked to do. Some of the information on the current page is outdated and somehow it should be corrected, but I am not sure now how to get that done. Can I try again to edit without sounding promotional but just to update the facts (for example there is no children's concert or petting zoo anymore. If not, if I simply suggest edits, then who actually will look at them and make them? Thank you for your time

(Mendokitties (talk) 19:13, 13 February 2012 (UTC))

Suggest changes on the talk page and, if nobody comments or makes the changes in a day or two, put a {{helpme}} on the talk page. You can make "totally uncontroversial updates like removing typos, correcting or updating simple data", if you explain them in WP:Edit summaries, but be very careful; one of the reasons COI editing is strongly discouraged is that people close to a subject seem to find it genuinely difficult to know when they are being promotional. Read WP:PEACOCK to see why "a magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California" is not Wikipedia's style at all. If your supervisor at the festival hassles you, show them this, and the COI guidelines. JohnCD (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello, Mendokitties. You have new messages at JohnCD's talk page.
Message added 23:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Help on how to edit to resolve conflicts

I am not sure the best to try to show the edits I would like to make to resolve the conflict and just edit factual information. Is there a way to copy the article as it now exists and edit it and somehow highlight the edits so you can look at them to see if they are permissible? I am very new to this and am trying my best, but I seem to be a slow learner at how to do it right! For example, one of the changes that was deleted was a list of performers (groups and individuals) as well as a list of works this year. Can I include any of that information? I used the Oregon Shakespeare festival page as a guide, and they have a list of plays they are doing this year, and that is what I had tried to do with that part of my edits (I do see now that most of the rest were not factual, as your policy requires). And I need to remove some items from the current page--for example the festival no longer has a petting zoo or a children's concert. But instead it has added some other kinds of music, like jazz and blues for example. Can I make those kinds of edits ??? I have been talking with editor John but he is going away and advised me to see if you might be willing to help, Orange Mike. I will put a note on your page as John suggested. Thanks so much and I am sorry I did not understand the policies--now I hope I do, and so does our organization, so I just need to figure out the best way to update factually, and whether you think adding the list of performers/works is ok. (Mendokitties (talk) 00:39, 26 February 2012 (UTC))

Click the 'Edit' (on semi-protected/protected pages, 'View source') tab; select the block of text, copy, & paste online or offline. When you move it back to Wikipedia, select 'Show preview' (below, next to 'Save page') as many times as needed; doing so will not show incomplete, malformed, or redirected hyperlinks, and references will only correctly show on a page with a {{Reflist}} template. I moved your help request off the subsection line so the subsection formats correctly. Dru of Id (talk) 06:46, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Hitting the preview button will only show what you have changed it to, although you can specify

I suggest we change

'this specific phrase' to

'that specific phrase' (as more accurate, etc.)

if you post it on the talk page, which I would actually only recommend for active pages or contentious material (including material you are contesting, rather than adding or improving). If no one responds after a time (I try for a week, but get impatient at three days, myself), make the change, but don't be surprised if someone still reverts (see WP:BRD). Using preview does not save the material at all, and I admit I sometimes forget to actually save, and then have to go back and repeat my changes. You may be able to 'Print screen' if the printer software permits. Dru of Id (talk) 00:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)