User talk:Amy denison sillman

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Amy Sillman, and I noticed that your username, "Amysillmanstudio", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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Dear Wikipedia editor, I can change the name from amysillmanstudio to amydenisonsillman if you want. is that ok? I do not have a "business" per se. I am an individual artist who makes fine art. i don't have a job or a business or any products or clients or sell anything myself or have anyone else help me. I do not share this page or this account with anyone. thanks. i'll follow the rename request and see if i can figure it out. amy sillman (˜˜˜˜) by the way my dog is dead. it says "She lives with her dog Omar." he DIED. i live alone. please remove this, i beg of you.

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December 2018
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.

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Dear wikipedia editors, for some reason I was blocked. I am not sure why, because I do not understand very well how this works. However, the sitution is this: i went to see what it said on a wikipedia entry about myself. i did not create this page, someone else did. but when i read it, i noticed a lot of out of date and/or erroneous information, as well as other problematic material (such as private things that aren't even true, such as that i "live with my dog Omar." it is a little disturbing to find out "who I live with" when I can assure you that that should not be printed on my website, since my dog Omar is in the hospital and near death. I won't even be able to edit this page myself when he dies and that will be very upsetting.

Here are examples of erroneous info that I found there: 1. I no longer live in Brooklyn, as it said i did. 2. I no longer teach at Bard College, as it said I did. 3. My work is no longer represented in NYC by the Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, as it says it was. And all these pieces of wrong information cause me professional problems. So I deleted them. When I took off Sikkema Jenkins Gallery I got a note that I was blocked. I had attempted to put in the actual gallery I do work with, Gladstone. Here's a link to prove this connection: https://gladstonegallery.com/artist/amy-sillman/work#&panel1-1 but then they blocked me, maybe thinking it was a commercial move, but I assure you i don't sell artwork here, I was just correcting the info that I found there, which listed a gallery i DO NOT work with anymore.

Also, I deleted the personal information saying that I "live in brooklyn with my dog omar." My dog Omar is in critical condition at the hospital, and when he passes, i will not want that on my page. so it was upsetting to me to see him there.

I don't know what else it said, because I was quickly blocked. So i went off and came here to try to correct this block.

Now, I'm not a very skilled wiki user-- as I said, I didnt create this page and certainly have never tried to edit it before. but I think that I should be able to edit the information about my own life, shouldn't I? I can assure you that this is amy sillman, the artist whose profile is listed here. I"m not sure how to prove it to you, but you can check the info on my own website: www.amysillman.com

In any case, I have had other museum shows, and much other press beyond what is in this page. And I would like to update it. Since I do have this profile, which I don't know who put here, and other people seem to have edited it, I would like to be able to edit it myself. Like I said a lot of the info was way out of date. so it should be updated at least.

I have no wish to edit or change anything else besides my own entry on wikipedia, nor to in any way use it as a commercial situation. I dont use wikipedia to sell my artwork, I assure you that i have galleries who do that, but the data is wrong and simply should be corrected. So... if you would be so kind as to unblock me, i would be very appreciative. if you want to check with me about anything, please feel free to ask me and I will give you the up to date information. thank you. i'm not even sure how to use these four tildas but i'll try it in a few different ways. thanks.

amy sillman Amysillmanstudio (talk) 03:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC) (amy sillmanAmysillmanstudio (talk) 03:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)) Amysillmanstudio (talk) 03:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)amysillmanAmysillmanstudio (talk) 03:32, 9 December 2018 (UTC)


 * You will need to make a formal unblock request as you did the last time. Please read the Wikipedia policy on autobiographical edits by clicking WP:AUTO which will take you there.  We welcome your input in the article about you, especially if any information is incorrect, but you shouldn't edit the article directly.  Instead you may make edit requests on the article talk page.  Note that the page is an article  and not a "profile".  331dot (talk) 00:13, 10 January 2019 (UTC)