User talk:Sally Morningstar

Sally Morningstar, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Sally Morningstar. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Sally Morningstar, 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 19:25, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Sally Morningstar, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

If you are the person represented by this username, please note that the practice of blocking such usernames is to protect you from being impersonated, not to discourage you from editing Wikipedia. You may choose to edit under a new username (see information below), but keep in mind that you are welcome to continue to edit under this username. If you choose to do so, we ask the following:

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. 331dot (talk) 21:21, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Sally Morningstar", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because usernames which might be seen as a representing a specific identifiable person (particularly someone with a Wikipedia article written about them like Sally Morningstar) can only be used if it's account holder's WP:REALNAME; even in such cases, however, an account may be soft blocked as a precaution against any potential damaging impersonation until the account holder's identity can be verified. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:24, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

I appreciate that I seem to have made an error in editing Sally Morningstar, even though that living person is myself - I had no idea I was not allowed to edit something written about me! I have written to Wikipedia offering to prove that I am this said person and hope this will prevent deletion of my Wikipedia entry. I don't think my publishers will be very happy if it is taken down because of an innocent mistake on my part to update my information. I am happy to comply with your rules, and am in process of attempting to do the right thing here. Thank you. Sally Morningstar Sally Morningstar (talk) 08:57, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

The block is only to confirm your identity; once that email is processed, the block may be lifted. As I stated at the Teahouse, you are welcome to make edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page or(in this case) comment on the deletion discussion. Please read the autobiography policy for more information. Please also understand that Wikipedia is not concerned with what your publishers might think or want with regards to an article about you being on Wikipedia. Whether there is an article or not depends purely on whether there are sufficient independent reliable sources about you that show if you meet Wikipedia's special definition of a notable author. Not every author merits an article here, it depends on the sources and coverage they give. 331dot (talk) 09:25, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Cordless Larry (talk) 14:30, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

SallyMorningstar

Are you the same person as SallyMorningstar? If you are, you should disclose this. Otherwise, they might be an imposter. TheAwesomeHwyh 05:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

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