User talk:Booksieread

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Booksieread! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 14:49, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Promotional group edits
Hi--according to this edit, you are, or were, a librarian coordinating the editing by students on Agnes Scott College. Yesterday I noticed a half dozen or more new accounts editing the article in a promotional manner, inserting unverified material that really has little encyclopedic value, and my notices to them (pertaining to COI edits) and my edit summaries all went unheeded. I had no choice but block the IP address from which all these edits came. I also asked another admin to assess the situation, and as a result the article is now semi-protected. New edits came this morning, inserting the same content; is likely to agree that such edits are not encyclopedic. The problem is that no one is communicating, and that the status and affiliation of these accounts was never made clear. School and university projects has extensive support and guidelines, and one of their pieces of advice is that editors identify themselves, and that a professor is linked one way or another so that we administrators know where to turn with questions. I only found you because I checked to see what other accounts were made. From my end, it actually looks like a single editor is inserting the same content, or the same type of content, again and again. I actually stopped short of blocking those accounts indefinitely because I figured there was some sort of project--but I'm on day two now of searching for what actually was happening. There is a way forward here, but not if no one communicates. I'm hoping that can change now, and that we don't have to also block this IP, and the accounts themselves. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 14:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)