User talk:Hbn2

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February 2014[edit]

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December 2019[edit]

Hello, I'm 73.186.215.222. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. 73.186.215.222 (talk) 14:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Hbn2. 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:

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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. 73.186.215.222 (talk) 14:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One of your recent additions 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. 73.186.215.222 (talk) 14:55, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. 73.186.215.222 (talk) 15:37, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest guideline.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:05, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Hbn2 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hello. Thank you for clarifying the Wikipedia rules. I now understand that I cannot contribute to a page for an organization I am connected to and it will not happen again. I noticed that the UI College of Engineering didn’t have an entry and was trying to make one similar the other colleges at the university and other engineering schools. I now understand that I can make requests for someone else to update the page. I would like to have my edit rights restored to update the other page I created on women presidents in academia. Your consideration is much appreciated. Hbn2 (talk) 22:23, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

See Special:Diff/933594686. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hbn2,

Thank you very much for your message and your understanding. One of my main concerns was the lack of any indication that you had read the messages above. The repeated addition of promotional material after warnings made this block appear to be necessary; the term "edit war" might have described the situation as well. Your message resolves this concern; your promise exceeds the requirements of Wikipedia's paid editing policy and the conflict of interest guideline. As a result of your promise, as long as you actually do not continue to make any conflict-of-interest edits, and as long as you do not receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you are probably also not required to provide any disclosure for future edits. If you ever intend to do, please properly disclose your connection, ideally on your user page, before making such edits.

The repeated introduction of copyrighted material without proof of permission from the copyright holder, even if you are the original author and the content was published somewhere else before, was an additional problem that I have neither addressed in the block, nor that was addressed in the unblock request. As the block was independent of this issue and your last edit was apparently not a copyright violation, I assume that there is currently no need for a block to prevent further violations of Wikipedia's copyright policy either.

Very, very rarely are good-faith contributions to Wikipedia so severely problematic that a user has to be blocked without warning. This was not the case here, and there have been warnings before the block. Reading and responding to messages here, on your talk page, will very likely prevent similar problems from reoccuring. We do not require editors to learn all policies before starting to edit; we only expect them to notice other users' concerns when such concerns are voiced.

Thank you very much for providing good inline citations at List of women presidents or chancellors of co-ed colleges and universities. While you may like to have a look at WP:PSTS, this does appear to be one of the few cases where primary sources are useful sources of information. If you have not seen it yet, please have at least a short look at the biographies of living persons policy before continuing to edit Wikipedia about living people, but you seem to be doing this correctly already.

Hbn2, I am now removing the block, as it is no longer needed to prevent further disruption.

If there are any questions left, or if questions arise in the future, feel free to ask for assistance at the Teahouse, or on my talk page at any time.

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:42, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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File:University of Iowa College of Engineering Logo.jpg[edit]

What is the basis for saying that File:University of Iowa College of Engineering Logo.jpg is the logo of the University of Iowa College of Engineering? You cite it from their Facebook page, but I don't see that logo anywhere on that page. - Jmabel | Talk 21:40, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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