User talk:Danames

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August 2018
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as National Conservation Training Center. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:46, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve National Conservation Training Center
Hi, I'm Rosguill. Danames, thanks for creating National Conservation Training Center!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. It is unclear if this article passes Wikipedia's general notability guidelines. The easiest way to demonstrate that the article's subject is notable (and thus saving it from deletion) is to provide multiple sources covering the subject that are unaffiliated with it.

Additionally, the lead currently does not conform to Wikipedia's style guide for leads. The article could also be improved by splitting its content into sections with relevant headers.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Rosguill talk 00:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

International Environmental Modelling & Software Society moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. JW 1961  Talk  20:14, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Danames. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Daniel P. Ames, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
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 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 08:59, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:International Environmental Modelling & Software Society
Hello, Danames. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:02, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of International Environmental Modelling & Software Society
Hello, Danames

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged International Environmental Modelling & Software Society for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons. For more details please see the notice on the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:International_Environmental_Modelling_%26_Software_Society&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Umakant Bhalerao (talk) 08:31, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

Comment
I'm not going to get involved with any unblock request, since I blocked you and I don't think that would be fair on you, but I note that you also wrote the autobiography Daniel P. Ames, sourced largely to your own writings, so the undisclosed COI there is absolutely clear cut and suggests an agend beyond writing about a defunct organisation Jimfbleak - talk to me?  09:29, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you 331dot for further explanation on this process. I'll plan to not contest the block further until such time arises that I have non-COI edit to make and I'll put in a request then. Sounds like this is what is preferred. This has been a painful learning process as I thought I was making some good contributions over the years following Wikipedia protocols. Also, thanks Jimfbleak for helping me understand this process better. I have several equivalent colleagues at other universities with equivalent articles about their research such as the one I posted under my name, but now I'm wondering if they were written by ghost writers or random individuals or how they made it through the review process at Wikipedia. I suppose it doesn't matter. The lesson learned here is that the articles must appear somewhat organically and not be created by someone closely connected to the subject matter. In any case, I hope I can make contributions in the future, at which time I will submit another unblock request and will reach out to you two and PhilKnight to see if you are willing to grant a parole. Or better yet, a full pardon. Thanks all. - Dan