User talk:ATYPintern1

July 2019
Hello ATYPintern1. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Australian Theatre for Young People, 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, and if it does not, 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:ATYPintern1. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. Sam Sailor 07:17, 2 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I am an unpaid, volunteer, temporary intern for ATYP. ATYPintern1 (talk) 13:16, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * See my note below; even unpaid interns must comply with the paid editing policy, as you are being compensated with the experience. 331dot (talk) 15:14, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I see, thank you 331dot. Is there any way I would be able to get back the edits I made on the page? I mean, instead of writing it all out again, because it took me two whole work days, would it be possible, if I get unblocked, to copy and paste the edits I already wrote onto the talk page of the company's web page to be reviewed by other editors? ATYPintern1 (talk) 22:08, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The edits that were copyright violations cannot be restored, even to a talk page. Please review the information below.  Before you get that far, though, you need to request to be unblocked.  Please follow the instructions in the block notice; someone else will review any request you make. 331dot (talk) 22:37, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello ATYPintern1, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Australian Theatre for Young People 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 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.


 * 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 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 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 the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Copyrights. You may also want to review Copy-paste.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
 * In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse 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 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 must follow the copyright attribution steps in Translation. See also 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. Sam Sailor 07:22, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Sam!
I am an unpaid volunteer intern for the non-profit company Australian Theater for Young People. I see that you have redacted my edits for copyright. I was wondering if it would be possible to get the edits back?

I did not lift from the articles you sited, instead I did as I was instructed and lifted from the company's own website and then edited it for the Wiki page. I understand if the Learning, Writing and Scholarship sections were flagged, but the artistic director and past productions shouldn't be. The articles you have linked were written by ATYP and were lifted from their own website as well.

I linked their website to each section, does that not count as giving their original website on the public domain credit?

Best,

Emily AKA ATYPintern1
 * You will need to comply with conflict of interest and paid editing(the latter even if you are an unpaid intern, as you are being compensated with the experience). 331dot (talk) 08:55, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. 331dot (talk) 08:53, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Will also need to affirm understanding of policies related to material copyrighted elsewhere and affirm she won't add such content in the future. Dlohcierekim (talk) 08:57, 2 July 2019 (UTC)