User talk:Rburnettatemilycarr

June 2010

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Henry inlander

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Henry Inlander was my uncle and since his death and the death of his wife, my aunt, Antonia Inlander, I am the sole living heir to his work and legacy. This is why I used the material which you deleted. My apologies. Rburnettatemilycarr (talk) 20:52, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Rburnettatemilycarr, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Henry Inlander has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or 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 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.
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• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk 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 can, but please follow the steps in 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. /wiae /tlk 16:41, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Rburnettatemilycarr. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Ron Burnett, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 17:21, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Editing your own web page

Not a good idea. Not recommended. User name not a good idea either.96.127.242.152 (talk) 05:12, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2021

Hello, I'm Njd-de. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, George Pedersen, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. NJD-DE (talk) 19:50, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Rburnettatemilycarr. Just going to add to what Njd-de posted above. The edit summary you left when making the above-mentioned edit implies that it was an edit you made on behalf of the subject of the article. If that's the case, then please take a careful look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest because it would seem to apply to you. There are ways for the subjects of articles to seek assistance from the Wikipedia community when they have concerns about articles written about them and these are explained in Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia; so, perhaps you could pass that information along to George Pedersen. For reference, things tend to go more smoothly when the subject of the article follows relevant Wikipedia guidelines in a case like this, then when they either try to make changes themselves or try and get someone they know to do so on their behalf.

Wikipedia articles are written about subjects, not for the benefit of subjects or at the behest of subjects; in other words, it's an article about them, but not "their" article per se and the subjects of articles have no claim of ownership or right of final editorial control over article content. Article content is going to be assessed on whether it meets relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines and anything that doesn't is almost certainly going to be removed outright or revised as needed until it does, depending upon the nature of the content. Wikipedia pretty much requires that all content be verifiable and the way this is done is by providing citations to reliable sources (as defined by Wikipedia); there's lots of information that is true about subjects that could be added to Wikipedia articles, but only that which can be properly verified is going to be allowed. This is particularly the case when it comes to biographies about living persons and any major expansion of an article like the one you tried to make that isn't properly supported by citations is almost certainly going to be reverted by another editor, most likely quite quickly. Even when proper citations are provided, it's often better to be WP:CAUTIOUS with major expansions and discuss them on the article's corresponding talk page so that others can provide feedback. Not only was the content you added unsourced, but there were also some other issues with it and parts of it would've probably needed to be rewritten to bring it more inline with Wikipedia's manual of style.

My suggestion for you (and George Pedersen) moving forward would be to use the article's talk page to make edit requests as explained here. Try to keep your requests as simple and as brief as possible (e.g. change X to Y, add this sentence to the end of the "ABC" section) since vague requests (e.g. rewrite the entire article) or overly dense requests like the content you tried to add yourself can be hard for the volunteers answering such requests to properly assess or otherwise figure out. It's also important to provide a citation (or link) in support of any information you want added to the article so that can be verified by others; moreover, big requests are often easier to answer when they're broken down into bite-size pieces instead of trying to do everything all at once. The harder an edit request is to answer and the more time it requires to be properly assessed, the greater the chance of it being declined or only partially answered. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:06, 6 February 2021 (UTC)