User talk:Garrapata

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Your submission at Articles for creation
 Morley Baer, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. Thank you for helping Wikipedia!  jroe  tkcb 21:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 17)
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Your draft article, User:Garrapata/sandbox


Hello, Garrapata. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  Onel 5969  TT me 18:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Ray McSavaney
Hi Garrapata,

your article about Ray McSavaney is nice work!

May you please be so kind to upload a higher resolution versions of the Bunker Hill Project photo? It has some artifacts.

Cheers, Raupkopie (talk) 15:53, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ray McSavaney has been accepted
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Book promotion
Several of your recent edits appear to be simply promoting a book (this for example) and have been removed. If a book has valid content, then use it to support article improvement. However, adding promotional blurb within article space is not the way to go. Repeated promotional edits suggests a conflict of interest and that is not acceptable. Vsmith (talk) 23:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Agree with what V said. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 12:30, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Garrapata! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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-- 18:35, Sunday, May 6, 2018 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Vincent Richards Lee has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Vincent Richards Lee. Thanks! —  Newslinger  talk   18:51, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vincent Richards Lee (August 7)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Vincent Richards Lee has been accepted
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November 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Vincent Richards Lee. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. ''Specifically, you removed a "failed verification" tag without addressing the issue. The Marine Officer Candidates School website does not mention Lee, and therefore it is not acceptable to use it as a reference. Similarly, you removed a "citation needed" tag but only added a link to the general Princeton Architecture page. Each reference must verify the information described in the article. Thank you! '' Jmertel23 (talk) 13:14, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Garrapata. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Vince Lee (explorer), 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:


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In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jmertel23 (talk) 14:27, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

WP: TALK#CREATE

Connected contributor|User1=Garrapata |U1-declared=yes|U1-otherlinks=(Optional) Thank you for your editing work. I'm not sure I'm responding correctly to your comments, but here goes. I slightly know the subject of the article "Vince Lee (Explorer)". We met about 12 years ago on an archaeological trip. Subsequently, I occasionally visited with him and his wife in Cortez - they're around 1000 miles from me. I did not know at the time what an interesting life he had had. Only when I bought his book did I find out. Over a year ago, I was in the area and visited him. I found him in failing health. I became concerned that the story of his life would be untold. So, I volunteered to write a Wikipedia article on him. And, of course, writing it without compensation. I don't write Wikipedia articles for pay. I wrote the article on Mr Lee out of friendship; I have absolutely no financial involvement - it was strictly voluntary. The prospect of his own Wikipedia article really perked him up. So, of the five criteria you enumerated, the only possible conflict that I may have is in the first one - through a tenuous friendship. It never occurred to me that it could be considered a "conflict of interest". In writing the article, especially in response to the Editor's comments on the first submission, I tried to maintain a neutral point of view, writing 'just the facts'. To my mind, it is written with that viewpoint.

I hope this suffices. If not, please get back to me. Garrapata Garrapata (talk) 05:48, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * A follow-up: When writing an article about a friend or colleague, it can be difficult to differentiate between what you find important versus what is actually noteworthy. Thie article Vince Lee (explorer) comes across as written a bit too much from a personal touch (articles should be dispassionate, not chummy and familiar). All articles, especially biogrpahies of living persons, need to abide by neutral point of view, which means covering all significant material proportional to their prominence in the published record. It's easy to gush over trivial details, or to downplay or ignore significant embarrassing/negative coverage, when writing about a colleague. Also, you cannot (in any article) insert your own opinions or interpretations of facts: statements like "he makes an intriguing case" are problematic if your own view.


 * A Conflict of interest can also include over-decorating articles of images with relative fluff, creating a tribute rather than a neutral, professional, encyclopedia article. Related, I see you've uploaded a lot of photographs to Commons of Lee sourced from the Lee Foundation (as well as other photos, some of which you claim to have created personally). Are you the copyright holder of these works, or a representative of the copyright holder? We take copyright violations seriously on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and if the files are not clearly (and legally) released under a free license, they cannot be hosted on Commons. --Animalparty! (talk) 03:20, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

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