User talk:Ilovegulfport

November 2018
Hello Ilovegulfport. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Ilovegulfport. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:05, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2018
Hello Magnolia677. You are mistaken. I am not being compensated for my efforts. I am just trying to update the Gulfport Wikipedia page so that it will accurately represent the City of Gulfport. I am a public history student, and I am particularly interested in making the history of Gulfport, Mississippi more effective. Ilovegulfport (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Your username and the nature of your edit gave that impression. I left you a welcome below.  Feel free to ask any questions.  Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:19, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Ilovegulfport, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Magnolia677 (talk) 16:17, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Magnolia677. I understand how my username could have been misleading. However, were there any problems with my edits? How can I avoid setbacks like this one in the future? Thank you for your input. Ilovegulfport (talk) 16:46, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Some of the content you added appears to have been copied from https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/county/florida/okaloosa. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Content you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello Diannaa. Thank you for your concern. However, you are sadly mistaken. We did not get our information from the above link; the above link that you cited pertains to Florida, having nothing to do with the Wikipedia page on GULFPORT,MS. We received our information from the section of the Best Places website on Gulfport, MS which is cited in our additions to the website. Because of your mistake, all of our qualified edits were deleted, which has significantly set us back. Ilovegulfport (talk) 16:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure who the "we" is, but you need to stop violating copyrights. At Gulfport, Mississippi, you copied an entire section of text from this source. You have already been cautioned about this by User: Diannaa. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:01, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018
Your addition to Gulfport, Mississippi has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. ''This is your final warning. Further violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy will result in you being blocked from editing.'' — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:27, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Gulfport, Mississippi, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:22, 17 December 2018 (UTC)