User talk:Amandalove2292

Copyright violation at Above & Beyond Children's Museum
Your addition to Above & Beyond Children's Museum has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read 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&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 32.218.39.55 (talk) 20:34, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Amandalove2292. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Above & Beyond Children's Museum, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
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In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Editing at the request of museum staff constitutes a conflict of interest. —C.Fred (talk) 20:51, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

I don't really have much affiliation with this location. They just don't know how to take down what was written before by an angry employee back in 2007 who did a have conflict of interest. They just want their history updated accurately. Do you know how they can make the changes if I can't? A lot of the people who work there have little to no experience with Wiki and don't know how to make the edits for the site. Do you know how they can make changes without it being stated that it's a conflict of interest- because obviously the person who wrote the previous history did have a conflict of interest at the time. But that was 8 years ago.


 * The best thing to do is to provide links to updates on the news stories. Surely in the intervening 7-8 years, the land sale has been resolved. (I would assume to be a going concern, the museum had to get its finances sorted out.) But, rather than delete material that cites reliable sources in newspapers, it's better to add with additional reliable sources. —C.Fred (talk) 21:06, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Let me add that you can't simply cut and paste text from the Internet, be it from the museum's web page, a newspaper article, or whatever. That's a copyright violation, as indicated above. You must put things in your own words. In addition, text that is promotional (e.g., "exhibits that enhance the lives and experiences of its visitors") is considered not neutral, and will quickly be removed, as has already been done. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a web page, and the content must be suitable for an encyclopedia (i.e., neutral in tone and wording) and supported by reliable sources. 32.218.37.33 (talk) 21:58, 24 September 2015 (UTC)