User talk:Kitabuddy

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Kitabuddy, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Teea Goans 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. Nthep (talk) 21:57, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

September 2021[edit]

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

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. Orange Mike | Talk 23:54, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I need some major help here. I’m just an artist who is trying to get my info updated on wiki. Can my publicist make these changes? Kitabuddy (talk) 23:55, 15 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for responding. Sorry if I sound desperate but Ive been trying to get this changed for a while now. If you can tell me who can help you that would be great because the info I’m finding on the web is apparently incorrect. Kitabuddy (talk) 00:07, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What you have to understand is the simple fact that Wikipedia is not a PR conduit. No, a publicist may not turn a Wikipedia article into a something like a press release. Wikipedia articles contain the flattering, the unflattering (if there is any), and the middling, as long as it's all backed up by reliable, independent, published sources. Now, there could be something very wrong with the content of this article. It could contain falsehoods, exaggerations, or insinuations; and there could be serious omissions. If so, please start by pointing these out within Talk:Teea Goans. -- Hoary (talk) 00:11, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for helping me! That makes total sense. Since the person that created it 11 years ago (who I do not know) is no longer active here, how would I go about finding someone to update the info. The article is nothing more than outdated bios from my old website. I would like to add the current one (that can be cited from my current website) so that when people look me up, they see current info and not assume that I dropped off the planet in 2012. Kitabuddy (talk) 00:19, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good, now I think we're on the same wavelength. However, there are more snags. Sorry, but the article can't depend on your website, other than for minor matters. Instead, it has to depend on reliable, published sources that are independent of you: news websites and the like. If you can provide (on Talk:Teea Goans) some links to informative news stories, etc, then this would make the job of updating the article a bit easier and thus more appealing to potential editors. (I won't be among them: country music is outside any area in which I'm comfortable.) As for the material that's in the article now, we already know that it's problematic in that most of it doesn't cite sources. That (major) problem aside, please point out what's wrong with it on Talk:Teea Goans. Start with the worst parts (definitely including any part that's factually wrong); but if energy and time suffice, also write about the other unsatisfactory parts.

Thank you for your patience with this. I realize that dealing with Wikipedia can be frustrating, but if you persevere then a good article should eventually result. -- Hoary (talk) 00:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]