User talk:Maria Stadthagen

Welcome; a word about copyright and citing sources
Hello, Maria Stadthagen, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I appreciate your interest in improving the article Primavera (painting), but unfortunately your changes included content copied from other sources. Sometimes we can do this, but only if the material has a copyright license that is compatible with our own. Even then, we need to acknowledge that the content is copied to avoid plagiarism and sometimes to meet the legal requirements of the license.

We cannot copy content, or closely paraphrase it, when the source is not compatibly licensed, although we may use brief and properly cited quotations.

In this case, I note you copied some content from this Khan Academy lecture. For instance, you wrote the following (emphasis added by me and explained below):

The Khan Academy lecture I linked above documents the following:

Parts of the material you used are copied directly; other parts have very little change from the source. I've bolded the parts that are directly copied. The parts in between are clearly summaries of the other material.

Please see Copy-paste for more information on how we handle material from other sources. This information can be returned to the article, but only if written in your own words, from scratch, supplemented as necessary by brief, clearly marked quotations to attribute a point of view.

There is a secondary issues that needs to be addressed with the material you added. While content must be in our words, it must also refer to reliable, cited sources. Wikipedia as a tertiary source must reflect other content published by sources that are trusted relative to the subject at hand. By that I mean that academic, peer-reviewed sources are almost always appropriate, but sometimes less formal sources are as well. Even if we know something from our classes, or our own reading, or even if we ourselves are published experts we must cite published sources. Verifiability and Identifying reliable sources talks about these things.

There are some occasions where a piece of art is the source for itself. We wouldn't need a source to say, "Her dress is yellow" - the painting itself would be the source. But we do need a source to assert information like "One source that inspired this painting is a letter written to the patron, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, by Marsilio Ficino in about 1678." and "Primavera was most likely painted in honor of Pierfrancesco’s marriage in 1482."

Because I do not know if there is additional copying than I highlighted and because there was no source cited for any content, it has all been removed for now, but it is not lost. Wikipedia keeps a "history" of every change made to an article, which allows old material to be easily retrieved. You can see the material as you added it in this "diff" (which is the different content before and after you pressed 'save'):

I hope you can use this to put back in the article what you know to have been in your own words and to rewrite what wasn't so that it doesn't copy from or follow too closely on another source. Please cite your sources - any information that does not cite a source may be removed, unless it is obviously visible in the painting itself. That means all information about the history of and inspiration for the painting must have a cited source to remain.

If you have any difficulties restoring content, you should be able to get assistance at Teahouse.

Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:18, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Promotional edits
Hi! I see that many of your edits have consisted of an addition of unreferenced stuff relating to the Art of the World gallery. That looks very much like promotion (which Wikipedia does not allow), and should stop forthwith. I've reverted those additions. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Carlos Luna (artist) has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Carlos Luna (artist). Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 05:39, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Carlos Luna (artist) has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Carlos Luna (artist). Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 05:40, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Carlos Luna (artist) (April 2)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hell in a Bucket was:

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Hell in a Bucket (talk) 06:17, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Carlos Luna (artist) has been accepted
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