User talk:Leahritterband.MacDowell

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:30, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hi I have replied to several messages regarding my edits on several wiki pages. I am an intern at MacDowell who has been tasked with updating pages of our fellows to reflect their residencies at MacDowell. On each page I have provided several times proof of their stays at MacDowell as well as cited their pages on our website. I am an UNPAID intern and am receiving no compensation for my edits to wiki pages. For further information you can contact my supervise, Jonathan Gourlay (jgourlay@macdowell.org).

I am just trying to do my jobLeahritterband.MacDowell (talk) 16:41, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

June 2020[edit]

Hello Leahritterband.MacDowell. 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Leahritterband.MacDowell. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Leahritterband.MacDowell|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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Please respond to the message above. DO NOT edit further until you have done so. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation[edit]

Hello! Leahritterband.MacDowell, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. It's a good place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please give it a try! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:36, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Josh marston[edit]

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that Josh marston, a page that you created, has been tagged for deletion. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://www.macdowell.org/artists/joshua-marston. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

It covers a topic on which we already have an article - Joshua Marston. (See section A10 of the criteria 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 Joshua Marston, or to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:48, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Audre Lorde[edit]

Can you provide a source which supports the statement that AL received MacDowell fellowships? I have been unable to locate. If you can provide a ref, I will add it to her article. Thanks, Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 22:37, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reading 101[edit]

What about "editors are STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from editing the article, but may propose improvements on the talk-page" do you not understand?
What about "unsourced" do you not understand?
What about "revert unsourced claim" do you not understand?
What about "In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing." do you not understand?
What about "Please respond to the message above. DO NOT edit further until you have done so. Thank you" do you not understand?

BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 03:05, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 19:46, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked from editing the article namespace[edit]

Until you submit your conflict of interest disclosure. I'll provide a reminder about that below. El_C 19:54, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Leahritterband.MacDowell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. El_C 19:54, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]