User talk:Mariadragoi

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 * Hi Jay8g,
 * Thank you for your comment, I do need to make you aware that I am in no way affiliated with the Palestine Natural History museum, I am a museological researcher with an interest in archiving. I find your assumption that I have a conflict of interest strange. The reason I started with this page is because I came across the institution during my current research on Walter Rothschild for an essay I am writing. I edited the page for the museum because I noticed there were grants, collaborations, and infrastructural developments which were not on the Wikipedia, and might be of interest to researchers like myself as well as biologists interested in the flora and fauna of Palestine. My content has been removed by a user called VViking repeatedly and he has flagged me as 'promotional or advertising material' which is ridiculous, and he seems to be a serial 'reverter' on Wikipedia, rather than a collaborative editor. I would like to continue working on this page, what is the best way to go about it?
 * All my best,
 * Maria Mariadragoi (talk) 19:41, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Mariadragoi, what I saw is the same thing that Viewmont Viking saw, which is that the content you added sounds promotional. I'd suggest you read some of Wikipedia's guidelines, especially MOS:PUFFERY and What Wikipedia is not. Please also remember to Assume good faith when working with other editors -- saying that someone is not "a collaborative editor" would appear to go against that. Thanks! :Jay8g [ V•T•E ] 02:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024
Please stop. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. VViking Talk Edits 19:23, 20 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @Mariadragoi - one of the issues with the edits you're making, is that they seem to rely on sources that are closely related to the museum e.g. palestinenature.org (a primary source) - Wikipedia requires sources that are independent of the subject, so I would encourage you to find secondary sources about the organisation to use. Does that help? The other thing to bear in mind is that a Wikipedia article is summary of the (diverse, secondary) sources - it's not a place for every single thing about an organisation. So for the section you added on all the different labs - that is perhaps too detailed for Wikipedia - one line (supported by a secondary source) would summarise that sphere of work effectively. Lajmmoore (talk) 20:50, 21 May 2024 (UTC)