User talk:David S. Soriano

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That includes the Teahouse. David Biddulph (talk) 20:01, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Your help desk question
You have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2019_April_16#Thank_you! a response].— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:David (S) Soriano Chemistry Professor- Amateur Studio Artist.jpeg


A tag has been placed on File:David (S) Soriano Chemistry Professor- Amateur Studio Artist.jpeg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused duplicate or lower-quality copy of another file on Wikipedia having the same file format, and all inward links have been updated.

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Proposed deletion of File:David S. Soriano (Artist).jpg


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Uncreated Light Art moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Uncreated Light Art, does not have enough sources and citations 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. Girth Summit  (blether) 09:32, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

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


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Girth Summit  (blether) 09:34, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

The Ogre (2019 art) moved to draftspace
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Your recent editing
Hi - I wanted to drop you a more personal message than the automated ones above about your recent editing. It appears that you have been creating articles, and adding links to existing articles, about your own artwork. Please read WP:NOTPROMO - Wikipedia is not a suitable venue to promote your work. If your work is notable, other editors will doubtless write an article about it - you are discouraged from editing about your own work, per WP:COI. If you do write articles about your own work, you should use the articles for creation process, so that other editors can review them before they are published; when editing existing articles in areas where you have a conflict of interest, you should request a change on the relevant article's talk page, rather than changing the article directly. Please drop me a note on my talk page (or WP:PING me if you reply here) if you have any questions. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  09:44, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I echo that. I hope you are getting the message from the way that your edits are being reverted. Kindly have the decency to wait until someone with no CoI thinks your art is notable and writes about it here. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:59, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Ditto. Plus: If you decide to continue editing here with the goal of improving the encyclopedia, please famaliarize yourself with the show preview function. Eric talk 14:04, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Sympathy Becomes Empathy (Art) David S. Soriano (Artist).png
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Orphaned non-free image File:Swamp Dragon (Art). David S. Soriano (Artist).png
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Thanks for your e-mails
Hi David, thanks for your recent e-mails. Generally speaking, I prefer on-wiki communication - it makes it easier to keep everything in the same place - please feel free to drop a note on my talk page any time to ask questions (as you just did!).

I appreciate that you are eager to make your artwork available publicly. In your e-mails, you mentioned 'Creative Commons', which is a type of licence that you can release your work under - I wonder whether you meant Wikimedia Commons? If that is what you were referring to, you can find guidelines about uploading files here, and tips for whether your work would be of benefit to the project here. If I'm honest (and I genuinely don't want to be a jerk about this), I don't really see why your work would be of benefit to the project - there aren't currently any articles that it would usefully illustrate, and the starting point for that would be reliable, secondary sources discussing the work, rather than images of it. However, you should be the judge of that - go ahead and read the guidelines and see what you think.

If it's not Wikimedia Commons you were referring to, and you were actually talking about releasing your work under a Creative Commons license, then I'm not sure that would help. The issue with the images was not just the copyright/licensing, it was also that it was not clear how they were relevant to the project.

To give you an example of what I'm talking about, when I'm not working on new page patrol or counter vandalism stuff, I like to write articles about historic buildings in Scotland. A few of the articles I've written (e.g. this one) have no image, because I have not been able to find a photograph with free-use licensing online. (There are plenty of images in the sources that I use, but of course they are all under copyright so I can't use them.) At some point, I intend to do a road tour of Scotland and take photographs of any building that I've written about that doesn't have a picture - these I will upload, under a Creative Commons license, because there is a clear rationale from the project's perspective for me doing so. On the other hand, I am also interested in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon knotwork, and enjoy creating my own intricate designs, largely to demonstrate to the children in my class what you can do if you can really control your pen! I would not upload that kind of stuff to Wikipedia, because I am not a notable artist, and nobody is ever going to write an article about me, so there is no obvious benefit to the project of me putting them on here.

I hope this all makes sense - do by all means read through the links I gave you above, and come to your own determination about whether you should upload your work - but remember that anything we do here should be to further the interests of the encyclopedia (to which we are all but lowly worker bees), not to promote ourselves.

As a final thought - while I'm not sure that your images are what the project needs, I am certain that your professional expertise would be! You are a professor of chemistry, and we have a whole host of articles about chemistry, and science in general - your input into that part of the project would, I am sure, be very welcome indeed. Cheers  Girth Summit  (blether)  20:21, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Problems with upload of File:Oil Pastels, Oil Bars (Oil Sticks) & Cold Wax in Art Applications.pdf
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File:Sympathy Becomes Empathy (Art) David S. Soriano (Artist).png listed for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Oil Pastels, Oil Bars (Sticks) and Cold Wax Applications In Art Utility.pdf


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Speedy deletion nomination of David S. Soriano


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