User talk:Jennifer.Smith3

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Reference errors on 27 October
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October 2015
Please stop your disruptive editing, as you did at California Division of Juvenile Justice. Your edits have been or will be reverted or removed. Do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively may result in your being blocked from editing. ''You are copying and pasting information from copyrighted sources. This is illegal under the law. You are also destroying all references, categories and information given the previous version of the article. This is considered vandalism. The article must be neutral. We don't delete information that is "bad" towards the subject and we don't add copyrighted non-neutral information.'' Bgwhite (talk) 17:58, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
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Your recent editing history at California Division of Juvenile Justice shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. —C.Fred (talk) 18:08, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Division of Juvenile Justice of California
Good morning. I am contacting you on behalf of the Director of the Division of Juvenile Justice in the State of California. We recently updated our page on this site with accurate information regarding our agency. Our page is consistently being reverted  back to old, and frankly slanderous information at this point. We are respectfully requesting that our page be left alone for the time being. Please keep in mind that we are new to Wikipedia and we are not finished adding cites and applicable research. We are simply trying to reflect true and current information. Additionally, none of the information added to the page is copyrighted as it is published by the DJJ itslef. We do have research and cites to back up our information, however, as I mentioned, I can only work on this so much during the work day.

Additionally, We do not have a problem with someone creating a different page with the old information listed under the old name of California Youth Authority (CYA), as that is whom the editor is truly referring to in his edits. The Division of Juvenile Justice of California is a separate entity from CYA with a different Mission, Treatment, and Guiding Principles. DJJ is a national leader in the arena of Juvenile Justice and an example for other states. It is hurtful to our name, and our State of California to have inaccurate information such as this posted on the Internet. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Jennifer.Smith3


 * Jennifer, there are several things going on here.
 * One should not edit an article about your employer. This is called a conflict of interest.  Many a politician have edited about themselves or opponents and have gotten in trouble.
 * Article should be neutral. What you were adding only reflected the "good" side.  You had erased any negative content that was previous in the article.
 * Unlike the federal government and some states (Washington for example), California retains copyright on their material they produce. If you goto a California website (say http://www.cdcr.ca.gov), you will notice on the bottom a copyright statement.  One cannot copy and paste material.  If you want to do so, Wikipedia must receive permission
 * You were destroying work done by previous people, including references and information used by Wikipedia.  You added material with no references while removing referenced material.  All material on Wikipedia should have references.  You also removed information used by Wikipedia that readers do not see.  This included categories, ie Category:Juvenile law at the bottom of every article.
 * Bgwhite (talk) 18:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The work reflected was inaccurate of DJJ, however it DID apply to California Youth Authority. As I said, DJJ is a seperate entity from CYA. As far as copyrights go, I was directed to make these changes by the DIrector of the Division in accordance with the Farrel v. Beard lawsuit. I have requested from Wikipedia on behalf of the Director that this page be permananetly removed or the title changed to California YOuth Authority. You did not give me a chance to add cites and references. Again, I have a job to do besides editing WIkipedia all day. Obviously the page was a work in progress.


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 * Whatever one puts up on Wikipedia is live. So, everything has to follow the rules....  California government bureaucracy, Wikipedia bureaucracy.  You can create a draft of the article that you can work on in your spare time.  Once it is done, you can copy it to the article.  However, I remind you that you have a conflict of interest (COI).  Once should not work on an article in which they have a COI has it is hard to remain neutral.   The article should be about the Department, both good and bad, and shouldn't be a PR piece. Bgwhite (talk) 20:04, 29 October 2015 (UTC)