User talk:Sun Moon Montain

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Sun Moon Montain, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Eddie Martinez (artist) 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.

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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) 13:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sun Moon Montain/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Sun Moon Montain/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:38, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

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:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 00:40, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sun Moon Montain/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Sun Moon Montain/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 01:23, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistently making disruptive edits.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:52, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sun Moon Montain. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Sun Moon Montain. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sun Moon Montain|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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:52, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Request reason:

I am not compensated for my edits in any way. I am just interested in writing about artists. I took a close at my last published article and realized that my tone was inappropriate. I am still fairly new to Wiki and did not realize the difference writing a report vs. Wiki. I will learn and abide to the guidelines. As for my sandbox, I used to think that personal sandbox was a place where I could draft about articles freely and I could make corrections to content later 02:27, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Accept reason:

See below. JBW (talk) 20:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Artists and IP cameras. Special:Diff/927551280 (at IP camera) looks strange to me – what was the motivation for writing this? Eddie_Martinez_(artist) contained text copied 1:1 from a PDF at timothytaylor.com; there have been more than just "tone" issues with your contributions. You should probably start the unblock request by explaining which sources you have used for your deleted draft about Joshua Brennan. Since you were able to recreate the page after deletion, you surely still have access to the text. Where does your information come from? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:32, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

Request reason:

Here are the sources for Joshua: [1] [2] [3][4] [5] [6] [7] I am in video camera business so I simply wrote something I was familiar with about the product. My interest is in music and art, so I started doing research about young stars, and found their stories facinating and inspiring. Sorry that I've copied the exhibition events about Eddie. I though that was a "fact". I know i have a long way to go. Sun Moon Montain (talk) 05:21, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

See below. JBW (talk) 20:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, hmm. To the reviewing administrator(s): I do not object to an unblock; the paid editing concern isn't strong enough on second thought. The explanation is unusual, but credible. There is no off-wiki evidence, to my knowledge, about paid editing here. When reviewing, please focus on the copyright part and the article creation. Feel free to unblock if these concerns have been addressed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:36, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Almost all of us, when we start editing Wikipedia, know little or nothing about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, so nobody can be blamed for starting out doing things that are contrary to policies and guidelines that they don't know about. In my early days editing I did things which I later realised were out of line with what is acceptable on Wikipedia, but I was lucky enough to get away with them. You were not so lucky, but you appear to be willing to learn from your mistakes, and I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be given another chance. The blocking administrator, ToBeFree has also indicated that he does not object to unblocking, so I shall unblock your account. However, here are a few pieces of advice, to help you avoid being blocked again.

Make sure that what you write is written from a neutral point of view. Just a few bits of what you have written read to me like straight promotion (such as "It won’t be too long when Oshi makes another splash again") but much of it gives a general feel that it was written by someone with an enthusiasm for the person it is about. Of course there is nothing wrong with your feeling enthusiasm, but that should not come across in Wikipedia writing: nobody should be able to tell what opinion, if any, the writer holds on the subject they have written about.
It is rarely suitable to copy text from anywhere else, including other web sites. The main reason for that is copyright, but there are other reasons, such as the fact that very often material which appears on other sites is not written from a neutral point of view. In fact on many sites related to subjects such as music writing from a neutral point of view is exactly what is not wanted.
You say that you used to think that your personal sandbox was a place where you could draft about articles freely and make corrections to content later. That is mostly true, but posting copyright-infringing content is an exception: that is not permitted on any page. There also tends to be a fairly low level of tolerance to content which looks promotional, because unfortunately experience over the years has shown that promotional-looking content, even in sandboxes, very often indicates that the editor is here to post spam. If that wasn't so in your case, it is very unfortunate that you got caught in collateral damage.
My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start.

I hope at least some of those comments may be helpful to you. JBW (talk) 20:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, JBW, for the detailed analysis and advice! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:40, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@JBW and ToBeFree:Thank you for your advice. Thank you so much for the second thought. Sun Moon Montain (talk) 22:15, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back, and sorry for the inconvenience. :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ToBeFree: you all did your job. I am certainly lesson learned. Sun Moon Montain (talk) 22:25, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Nine Songs (Contermporary dance)

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Nine Songs (Contermporary dance). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Nine Songs (contemporary dance). Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Nine Songs (contemporary dance). If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. Umakant Bhalerao (talk) 04:51, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Nine Songs (contemporary dance)

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A tag has been placed on Nine Songs (contemporary dance), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Captain Calm (talk) 04:55, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]