User talk:DianneWells

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello WellsLegalFirm, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Lisa Christiansen (actress) have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. 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 here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

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. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 22:25, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disclosure

Hello DianneWells. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:DianneWells. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DianneWells|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Huon (talk) 22:44, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DianneWells, this is your second warning. The images you have uploaded to Commons, namely File:Christiansen is one of the first Citizens of the Cherokee Nation to receive the modern CDIB citizenship cards..png and File:Lisa Christiansen-Tahlequah-5 years old.png, strongly indicate a conflict of interest. Based on your previous username, I suspect that there is undisclosed paid editing taking place. Paid edits without disclosure violate the terms of use and are prohibited. Before you make another edit to Wikipedia, you must either make the disclosure as instructed above, or reply here saying that you are not receiving compensation for your edits. If you have any questions or need any help, let myself or Huon know and we will be glad to help you. Thank you. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 11:21, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lisa Christiansen (actress) (January 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Huon was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The given content is largely not based on independent, reliable sources.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Lisa Christiansen (actress) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Lisa Christiansen (actress), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and save.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Huon (talk) 23:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, WellsLegalFirm! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Huon (talk) 23:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RE: IRC help

Hi Dianne, I'm the user who was helping you in IRC. Your connection timed out so I'm leaving you a message here.

I feel like you may have a connection with Lisa Christiansen, either professional or personal. If you do, could you please disclose it here? Additionally I suggest you read WP:COI, WP:BIO, and WP:AUTOBIO which are the Wikipedia policies and guidelines on Conflicts of Interest, Biographies, and writing Biographies about people you have a relationship with. Thank you! -- Cheers, Alfie. (Say Hi!) 21:40, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Draft:Lisa Christiansen (actress). Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Stop adding copyvios. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 19:41, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Today is the third time that I had to clean up the page history to hide copyright violations that you added. Do not copy-paste text from elsewhere onto Wikipedia. Do not closely paraphrase text you took from elsewhere, either; that creates a derivative work and still violates copyright. Huon (talk) 23:41, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Lisa Christiansen (actress)

Hello, DianneWells. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Lisa Christiansen".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Sam Sailor 07:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]