User talk:Colettedelamaison

January 2022
Hello Colettedelamaison. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wikipedia:Teahouse, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Colettedelamaison. 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. 331dot (talk) 15:17, 17 January 2022 (UTC)


 * thank you very much for you prompt respond. but i do have one more question for you. i do not work for carlo, he is a friend of mine and asked me for help. i will not get paid. what does that mean for you?
 * At Teahouse, you wrote "i am working for an artist and his estate..." If you mean "working with", i.e., not paid or otherwise compensated, then WP:COI applies instead of WP:PAID.    statement explaining your connection to him should be put by you on your User page. Also, remember to 'sign' your comments on Talk pages by typing four of ~ at the end. David notMD (talk) 16:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

@David notMD thank you very much for your help. Colettedelamaison (talk) 16:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * List of photographers includes a list of Italian photographers that may be useful as models of succcessful articles. Rather than listing all shows, more typical to list selected solo shows and no group shows. Wikipedia is not a resume. Instead, an External link can be created after References, to Robert's website (if he has one). David notMD (talk) 17:02, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

David notMD, thank you very much for your informative and helpful answers. Colettedelamaison (talk) 17:26, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Carlo Valsecchi
Hello, Colettedelamaison. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Carlo Valsecchi, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 10:02, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Carlo Valsecchi


Hello, Colettedelamaison. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Carlo Valsecchi".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 07:18, 8 January 2023 (UTC)