User talk:Jmartin1980

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Philbrook Museum of Art, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! --Arxiloxos (talk) 18:17, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Philbrook Museum of Art. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Please understand that Wikipedia does not allow the replacement of neutrally written text with promotional language and puffery. An obvious example is your your repeated insertion of the phrase, "the premier cultural institution in the city of Tulsa and a state-wide leader in the cultural life of Oklahoma", with attributing that opinion to any independent reliable sources. I assume that your edits here are being made in good faith, with the intention to improve the article about Philbrook, but repetition of these violations of Wikipedia policy could lead to your account being blocked. If you would like to pursue specific improvements of the text of the article, you could propose them on the talk page for review by other editors for their compliance with Wikipedia policies. Thank you for your understanding.--Arxiloxos (talk) 20:27, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

In addition to the concerns explained above, I also want to take this opportunity to alert you to Wikipedia's copyright policies. It appears that at least some of your proposed edits may have been copied from Philbrook publicity materials or third party sources. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here. It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. Thanks for your understanding.--Arxiloxos (talk) 21:31, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
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 * Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied without attribution. If you want to copy from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Copying within Wikipedia.

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Philbrook Museum of Art, you will be blocked from editing. Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Philbrook Museum of Art was changed by Jmartin1980 (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.85933 on 2012-03-13T14:43:05+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 14:43, 13 March 2012 (UTC)