User talk:Aleksadive

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May 2011
Your addition to Frank Bergon has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ''See WP:COPYPASTE for more guidance on copying and pasting text from one website into Wikipedia. If you have permission to use the text, see Donating copyrighted material for the process on verification. I also removed the text from your user page as well, per policy. Any questions, let me know.'' NortyNort (Holla) 03:11, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

July 2011
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Frank Bergon, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. ~ Red Rover  (Talk to me!) contribs  04:21, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

March 2019
Hello Aleksadive. 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 Bellarmine College Preparatory, 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:Aleksadive. 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. ''It appears that either you are Frank Bergon, or you are working in his employ. Every edit you've ever made is about him.'' John from Idegon (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
I am not Frank Bergon or in his employ. I am not receiving any money for publishing and updating his information. Aleksadive (talk) 14:30, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
I am not Frank Bergon or in his employ. I am not receiving any money for publishing and updating his information. Aleksadive (talk) 14:27, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
I am not Frank Bergon or in his employ. I am not receiving any money for publishing and updating his information. Aleksadive (talk) 14:27, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Bellarmine College Preparatory. This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 17:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm not sure how it can be construed as unsourced. Frank Bergon went to Bellarmine and graduated in 1961, which could be verified by alumni records. It's all factual information, so how can I show that to include it on the page? Aleksadive (talk) 19:11, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Aleksadive. I touched on this in my response to you at User talk:John from Idegon, but it's your responsibility to provide a citation to a reliable source so that Bergon is an alumnus of the school. Telling others to go dig out the information in the school's alumni records is simply not sufficient. There is not mention (yet alone any verifiable mention) of Bergon being an alumnus of the school in Frank Bergon; so, simply adding a wikilink to the article written about him doesn't help at all. The best thing to do would be to add content about Bergon attending Bellarmine to the Wikipedia article written about him, making sure this content is supported by citations to reliable sources. Once you've done that, then try re-adding his name to the Bellamine article. This at least will establish a Wikipedia verifiable connection between him and the school. If, by chance, you cannot find such sources which clearly support this bit of information about him, then it's most likely going to always be challenged and removed by other editors as unsourced content. One last thing, you should look for WP:SECONDARY sources here since even trying to cite Bergon himself as a source might not be deemed acceptable per WP:BLPSELFPUB. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:49, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Your userpage
Hi Aleksadive. I already posted something about this in my reponse to one of your post's on 's user talk page, but your current user page is not really in accordance with User pages and is likely going to be deleted by an administrator per WP:FAKEARTICLE and WP:NOTWEBHOST if you don't do something about it fairly soon. If what you're working on is an improvement to Frank Bergon, then the place for that would be in your WP:USERSANDBOX. On the other hand, if you're working on a draft for a possible new article, then the best place to do that would be in a userspace draft or a draft. The longer you leave your userpage as is, the more likely it will be deleted and all the content lost; so, you should take care of it as quickly as you can. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:39, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Marchjuly, I think I fixed the errors. I just needed a little assistance in figuring this out. Thank you again.Aleksadive (talk) 01:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC) This is being posted on your talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss issues and respond to questions. At the end of each message you will see a signature left by the editor posting. This is done by signing with four tildes ( ~ ) or by clicking in the editing interface toolbox, located just above the editing window (when editing). You won't need to sign your contributions to articles themselves; you only need to when using talk pages. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist or give you guidance.

Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 05:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 05:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Publish changes, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Publish changes. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 15:49, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


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 * It's up to you to learn how to do this properly. You've been provided numerous resources. A reference has to provide enough information that a reader can locate it. If you use the instructions above, that will happen. What you are leaving for references do not even make it clear what kind of media it is. This is an encyclopedia, not his PR. We are not interested in what he says about himself. References need to meet our standards for reliability and they need to be academically independent of the subject. Competency is required to edit here. It's up to you to use the resources you've been provided to develop competency. Also, you clearly have a WP:COI. I'm asking that you please follow best practices for COI editors and stop editing the article directly. Instead, propose changes on the article talk page, using the form and templates described in the link in the previous sentence. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 16:09, 6 April 20

I have just added my proposed changes to the talk page with the correct citation format. I do not have a WP:COI, and I would appreciate you to not assume that I do. I am trying to improve this article and provide the correct information about an author that I have researched in the past. I now understand how references are different on wikipedia, and I have used the templates. My understanding of wikipedia is that anyone can edit the article directly, but I am putting it on the talk page, as you suggested, in order to make sure my references are correct. Thank you Aleksadive (talk) 18:32, 15 April 2019 (UTC)