User talk:WaysOfSeeing interdisciplinarian

November 2020

Your edit to Michelle Castelletti 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. You've done this now twice at this article. Please stop and read Wikipedia:Editing policy and the further links there. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:35, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article about yourself, at Michelle Castelletti. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 23:29, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

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 ~~~~}}. ‑Scottywong | [chatter] || 08:38, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the above notices completely and carefully, and be sure to click on the links and read the relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. A couple things to note:

You can't copy content from a copyrighted website and paste it into a Wikipedia article. That is a copyright violation.
You are highly discouraged from editing an article about yourself, because you have a strong conflict of interest. If there is incorrect information in an article about you, let someone know (preferably by editing Talk:Michelle Castelletti to start a discussion about it). You'll likely need to provide some sources that prove the information is incorrect.
Just because you claim to be a particular person doesn't mean that anyone has to believe you. Anyone could make the same claim as you. If you'd like to prove your identity, follow the instructions at WP:REALNAME.
When you have a disagreement about content on an article, you can't simply continue to revert other users and reintroduce your preferred version. This is called an edit war, and it will get you blocked. Instead, when there is a disagreement, there are various forms of dispute resolution available, the best of which is simply having a collegial discussion on the article's talk page.
Your account is currently blocked from editing, indefinitely. If you can acknowledge that you've read and understand the above items, and you can confirm that you'll no longer edit Wikipedia in a disruptive fashion, then you can be unblocked. The only page you can edit while blocked is this page.

Thanks. ‑Scottywong | [spout] || 08:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WaysOfSeeing interdisciplinarian (talk) 21:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC) I am sorry. I am completely new to this. I did not create the page about me. I would never do that! I only realised it was there as one of my workplaces pointed it out as it was outdated and had errors and ommissions - including them (!) which is not very nice. I only copied and pasted my "about" page from my website, as I did not know how else to do this. Even finding this talk page and how to write here took me over an hour! I have never used wikipedia in this way. And I also had not realised that someone was replying to my previous questions. i do not need to amend the article myself - but I would like it to be representative of the truth? Would you kindly unblock me, and then perhaps someone could guide me how to change things appropriately not to break any regulations. I do not want to use wikipedia in this way. As I said, the article was created by someone else - not myself. Although I was pretty chuffed to see I was there. Thank you for your time - and help. I hope to be unblocked soon - and pledge not to cause furhter inconvenience. It was done unwittingly. Thank you. Kind regards, Dr Michelle Castelletti WaysOfSeeing interdisciplinarian (talk) 21:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding. I'll unblock you shortly and you'll be free to edit again. In addition to everything I wrote above, please consider the following advice before resuming editing:

If you haven't already, please read the short text at WP:AUTOBIO again to understand the expectations for Wikipedia editors who are the subject of a Wikipedia article.
I have added a template notification to the talk page of the article (Talk:Michelle Castelletti), which will inform other editors that you have a conflict of interest with regard to that article. This is nothing more than an informational template, but it will let other editors understand your relationship to the article.
That same talk page is where discussions about the article should take place. Currently, there aren't any discussions on that page, so it looks kinda blank.
Rather than editing the article directly yourself, you are highly encouraged to propose edits on the talk page, and allow other editors to make the changes for you. This is encouraged because it is extremely difficult to write about yourself in a neutral way, and Wikipedia articles must be neutral. Edits you make directly to the page are likely to be reverted. Keep in mind, just because you claim to be the subject of the article doesn't mean that everyone has to do what you tell them to do. If you believe that something in the article is factually incorrect, you need to provide sources to back up your claims. Find a news article that contradicts the information in the Wikipedia article, and post a link to it. Similarly, if you'd like something to be added to the article, you'll need to provide a source as a reference to verify the content that you're trying to add.
If you'd like to request that another editor makes an edit to this article, follow these instructions:

Go to Talk:Michelle Castelletti
Click the "new section" button at the top of the page
Copy and paste all of the following text into the page:

{{request edit}}
*Information to be added or removed: ADD TEXT HERE
*Explanation of issue: ADD TEXT HERE
*References supporting change: ADD URL AT LEAST
~~~~

Replace the "ADD TEXT HERE" and "ADD URL AT LEAST" parts with the appropriate information.
Wait for an editor to respond. (This can sometimes take a few hours to a few days, depending on how backlogged we are, and how many editors are interested in editing that particular article). I can also try to keep an eye out for requested edits and respond to them more quickly, but I'm not always here either, so I may not see them.
Note that the above instructions only apply to articles with which you have a conflict of interest. You are free (and encouraged) to edit other Wikipedia articles directly. Hopefully, we can find away to get the article that is about you to a state where you agree that everything is accurate. Beyond that, if you have any interest in branching out beyond your article, please feel free, and I'm sure that the members of WikiProject Classical music would love to have someone like you help to edit other articles or write new ones.

Cheers, ‑Scottywong | [prattle] || 22:34, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WaysOfSeeing interdisciplinarian (talk) 21:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC) Thank you very much - this is very kind. I shall try to follow the instructions you gave me. (I never realised just how complex the mechanics behind wikipedia are! Thank you again. WaysOfSeeing interdisciplinarian (talk) 21:32, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]