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Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Whitleyfamily! Thank you for your contributions. I am BeenAroundAWhile and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Dispuptive editing

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at H.J. Whitley. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted.

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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. You also made a disruptive edit to Charles E. Toberman where you reinstated a reverted edit. Would you also please familiarise yourself with Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Thank you. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did with this edit to Whitley. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 20:10, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Whitley. Shellwood (talk) 20:14, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me out. Not sure what is wrong. Is it the map picture I added? It was given to me by H J Whitley. I am his great-granddaughter. Not sure how to source. I have the original document. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitleyfamily (talk • contribs) 20:26, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Wikipedia does not publish WP:Original research. You should submit your map to a WP:Reliable source which can then vouch for not only for its authenticity but also for its WP:Notability. Read all the links that have been provided for you on this page. Good luck! Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 00:37, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Whitleyfamily", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 21:28, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am one person and I am part of the Whitley family. It is not a business and does not represent one. What I am attempting to do is make wiki have the correct historical information. I have newspaper clippings from late 1880s to the future. I used Whitley family because it is easy to remember so that I can log on easily. I am a senior citizen, one person, and that is easier for me. I am not being paid by anyone to do this. I have posted things over the years and have never received any payments. It is very strange and a bit unnerving to be attack this way. It was better when I just used my IPS address. At this time I am one of the foremost historians on Hollywood History. If you feel I will be banned for my name let me know and I will try to come up with something else. /* Whitleyfamily */ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitleyfamily (talk • contribs) 22:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I thank you for your reply. I would suggest that you change your name to better indicate that an individual uses it, as your current name suggests that more than one person uses it or could use it, which is not permitted. You don't need to start totally over as stated above. You don't have to use your real name.

I don't think anyone means to attack you per se, but an important principle of Wikipedia is verifiability. All information must be verifiable. It doesn't have to be online, but it must be available to access somewhere. We can't just take your word for it, no matter your credentials. You might find information on citing sources at WP:CITE which may help you. 331dot (talk) 23:20, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Signature needed

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Thank you. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:05, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Hollywood into H.J. Whitley. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:06, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I see you are still not adding the required attribution, as required under the terms of the CC-by-SA license. Please have a look at this edit summary as an example of how it is done. Please leave a message on my talk page if you still don't understand what to do or why we have to do it. Thanks, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:37, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually. I was the original contributor to the water and power site. I didn't realize there was the same information on Wiki for the Hollywood sign. My information is coming from family archives which consist of diaries, Board meeting minutes, new paper articles, photographs and much more. How should I handle this? I do not want to spend time searching all of wiki each time I post. All I am attempting to do is make the history complete and correct. Whitleyfamily ]] Hope I signed off correctly.

The webpage http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_City_Views%20(1925%20+)_Page_3.html contains a great deal of content copied from various Wikipedia articles. It should therefore not be used as a citation. Please find another source. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:04, 16 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So who is the source that wikipedia used? I would like to see it. How do I find it? Whitleyfamily ]]

Go to the article Hollywood and find the content on Whitley. Some of it may have citations. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:39, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Places to post your new information

Here are some sites that might be interested in the corrected information about Mr. Whitley:

https://www.lacityhistory.org/blog

http://historylosangeles.blogspot.com/

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/california/los-angeles/history

Yours, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 21:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]