User talk:NEKell

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July 2019

One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it 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. 2601:188:180:1481:74C9:C465:3961:220A (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Per content you lifted directly from https://www.suffolk.edu/about/president-leadership/president/about-our-president.

Hello, NEKell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:1481:74C9:C465:3961:220A (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. 2601:188:180:1481:74C9:C465:3961:220A (talk) 14:54, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly suggest you read our guidelines re: promotional editing, paid editing, conflict of interest and copyright violations. If these edits continue I'll request that this account be blocked. Thank you, 2601:188:180:1481:74C9:C465:3961:220A (talk) 14:54, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Kelly Marisa IS.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Kelly Marisa IS.jpg, which you've attributed to Suffolk University. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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April 2022

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

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Drmies (talk) 23:03, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

NEKell (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hello, I am a retired person and a music fan. My husband and I have seen Jesse Valenzuela perform in small bars in Arizona as well as with the Gin Blossoms. We got interested, did some research and noticed that Valenzuela has a stub page on Wikipedia that includes an invitation to add more material. This edit was an effort to respond to that request about a musician we admire. There is absolutely no payment involved. Don't want it; don't need it. If Wikipedia wants the page expanded, who would bother except someone interested in the subject/person? I can see after reading your response that the material might be too enthusiastic, and that I could easily fix. Also looking over the talk history, I see that I did not respond to the messages from July 2019. At that time I did work for Suffolk University and was asked to update the Suffolk president's bio and include a photo from the university photographer. Because I didn't revisit for editing until today and obviously--as you point out in your comment that I'm "not very good at it" (not sure if that's the writing or the trouble I had entering citations), I never paid proper attention to those notes.

Accept reason:

See discussion below. Drmies (talk) 21:22, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is obvious that you are a paid editor, and on top of that you are--I'm sorry to say it--not very good at it. Please study up on how to wrote neutral encyclopedic content before you consider a request to be unblocked. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So you were a paid editor, but are no longer one? Yes, the references are not done properly, but the big problem is that the writing is just absolutely unencyclopedic, and if you want to continue editing you will a. have to understand what it means to write neutrally, and b. put that in practice. See Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, for starters. Drmies (talk) 00:38, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I was a paid editor/writer in higher ed before retiring in 2020. I've also been a newspaper reporter and newspaper editor. My husband, who did most of this writing, was a newspaper reporter who at various times covered music, politics and more. We can definitely tone it down to make it more encyclopedic, not enthusiastic, if I'm unblocked. If that happens, would it be possible to retain the draft I had, just so I don't have to reenter any footnoting that would be appropriately retained (and corrected)? Thank you. NK NEKell (talk) 01:19, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - I have unblocked you. PLEASE do more reading on Wikipedia before you do more writing. Citations are easy once you figure out the basics of it, and what you could do is simply copying the formatting that's already in the article and fill the blanks in appropriately. Here's the thing: don't write content you cannot verify by way of secondary sources. Your draft is still in the history. Good luck. Drmies (talk) 21:22, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks very much NEKell (talk) 23:24, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]