User talk:Sienna Murphy
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Wikipedia is not for promoting your own (inaccurate) website[edit]
Hello, Sienna Murphy. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Bengal cat, 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:
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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.
- In particular, citing your own self-published blog as a source is not really permissible here, especially when that blog makes blatantly false claims (e.g. that Harrison Weir's Our Cats and All About Them discusses silver Bengals in particular, which is definitely does not, or advancing the idea that "silver Bengal" is a breed unto itself, which it is not in any cat fancier organization anywhere; it is just one of several permissible coat colours in them. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:43, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
Copy-pasting from websites[edit]
Your edit to Bengal cat has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.
In partiuclar, Wikipedia cannot use material copy-pasted from other websites. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:43, 4 August 2023 (UTC)