User talk:LukeDelalio

I'm Luke DeLalio. I'm a web designer/developer and artists living in New York.

Paid editing on Wikipedia
Hello LukeDelalio. Your edits look as if you are being paid, such as the edit you made to Korliss Uecker. Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI). Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:LukeDelalio. 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. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:00, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello Bri. I am not a professional wikipedia writer and am not being compensated by Korliss Uecker in anyway. She and my wife are best friends; I did, or tried to do, Korliss a favor. She has had a wikipedia page up for years. It was taken down I think in December of 2016 although she didn't notice it until last month. She asked for my help getting her page back. She is a legitimate performer with a long career history, and she has a psst with Wikipedia. I tried to simply restore her page because she asked me to, as a friend. I understand the need for sourcing information, the standards of the community, etc. I've no desire to increase anyone's work load, I've no energy to get involved in discussions about whether or not a picture should be online or not. I look to be a user of wikipedia, not a contributor. As far as pulling the page down or not, that will be your decision, but from my view, Korliss has had a page up for years and should have one up now, because in the world of opera she is a someone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LukeDelalio (talk • contribs) 21:48, 14 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Luke. Thanks for your reply. I pretty much expected this to be the case. I had done a bit of work on the original Korliss Uecker article, and had it on my watchlist. (I'm a long-term member of WikiProject Opera.) When it popped up again yesterday, I had a look and have been cleaning it up a bit to bring it in line with Wikipedia's guidelines and Manual of Style. Wikipedia is being particularly vigilant about paid editing and the editors behind it. Unfortunately, the original article was created by one of Wikipedia's most notorious paid editors, who also used dozens of fake accounts and has been indefinitely blocked. As a consequence, all the articles they created (several thousand) were deleted. However, although you are not a paid editor, you do have a conflict of interest with respect to the new version of the article. I suggest that if you wish to have any additions or further changes made to the article, you suggest them at Talk:Korliss Uecker instead if making them yourself. There is a set of guidelines at Conflict of interest for editing under those circumstances.


 * As for the photo, that will soon be deleted on Commons as a copyright violation. It appears on Ms. Uecker's website credited to Chris Carroll and on a page clearly marked . Thus, you cannot release it under a free license stating that it's your "own work" if you were not the photographer. Lots of new users make that mistake. There is a way for Ms. Uecker or the photographer to release the copyright on Commons, but it's a pretty complicated process. My best advice to you is that you take a photo of Ms. Uecker yourself and upload it to Commons. That you can upload as "own work" under a free license. If you have any questions or need further help, do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page, or here on your talk page. Also, when you comment on a talk page, be sure to sign your comment. You do that by typing ~ at the end of your comment. When you save the comment, the Wikipedia software will automatically add your user name and the date and time of your edit. There's more how-to information on signing at Signatures. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 08:14, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Not a tech writer
I am not a technical writer and I know nothing about electron beam welding, so I'm unable to help you. Good luck. --Wtshymanski (talk) 16:07, 24 June 2019 (UTC)