User talk:Jjdevine2

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Hello, Jjdevine2, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Rachel Noerdlinger, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  18:33, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

MOS:SURNAME and WP:NPOV on Rachel Noerdlinger
Two comments: (1) Wikipedia articles don't appropriately refer to article subjects by their first names. (Some do, but only because the errors haven't been caught and fixed yet.) The subject of this article must never be called "Rachel"; she is "Noerdlinger" unless her full name is used. It's overly casual and thus unencyclopedic (apart from what some of us may feel about the inappropriateness of referring to strangers by their first names under any circumstances. If she is not, in fact, an stranger, please read WP:PAID and WP:COI immediately). (2) Characterizing her profession as "respectable," or her firm as "high-stakes," as two examples, is the type of WP:PROMO-noncompliant advocacy that is especially improper in an encyclopedia. Please read WP:NPOV and WP:PUFFERY, for starters. As encyclopedia article writers, we are not here to advocate for article subjects or to paint them in glowing tones. We are here to be objective and neutral. I invite you to direct any questions to the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE if you believe I'm off-base. Thanks for your attention to these issues in the future. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  18:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Noerdlinger article edits
Jjdevine2, welcome to Wikipedia.

Thank you for your recent edits to the article on Rachel Noerdlinger. Some of the new information you included is relevant and helpful. I see that you have already been provided with some input on your edits. However, I wanted to mention one additional issue. In one of your recent edits, you deleted all but one sentence of the section of the article relating to Noerdlinger's work for Chirlane McCray. You did not provide a reason for this very significant edit. In fact, your edit summary merely said, "Added recent cases that Rachel has worked on," which did not accurately summarize the edit you had made.

I have reinstated the section that you deleted. In the future, I would recommend that you visit an article's "talk" page and seek input from other editors before making a major edit like this one. Also, I would urge you to make sure that your edit summaries accurately reflect the edits you have made.

Thank you for considering my comments. SunCrow (talk) 01:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid editing and non-neutral point of view
Hello Jjdevine2. 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:Jjdevine2. 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.

Your edits on Rachel Noerdlinger and Patrick G. Halpin are not appropriate for an encyclopedia; they are not neutral (please read WP:NPOV), they do not comply with Wikipedia's style manual (please read MOS:SURNAME), and they introduce effectively promotional content ("one of Long Island's leading citizens" is not a phrase that should ever appear in an encyclopedia). Edits like this will be reverted. Please stop making them. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  18:07, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Patrick G. Halpin
Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from http://www.meettheleaders.com/show-host-patrick-halpin/. Copying text directly from a source is a copyright violation. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:36, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for restoring copyright violations and promotional content, likely covert advertising, abusing multiple accounts (User:Rt11642). If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. MER-C 19:39, 13 August 2018 (UTC)