User talk:Mayashamcdonald8818

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Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from one or more pages into Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g.,. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa (talk) 23:52, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Your addition to Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 21:40, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Your addition to Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. This is your final warning. Further violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy will result in you being blocked from editing.— Diannaa (talk) 01:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You also created a second account to avoid scrutiny when a block for copyright violations was likely if you continued, which you did. That is a violation of our policy on the misuse of multiple accounts (WP:Sock puppetry). Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content if you intend to apply for an unblock. 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:. — Diannaa (talk) 14:10, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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You were not blocked for sockpuppetry; you were blocked for copyright issues. The sockpuppetry issue was secondary and would not result in a permanent block of your main account unless the problem was ongoing. Here are some questions for you to answer so that we can assess your understanding of copyright and how it applies to Wikipedia. Please respond to the following questions, explaining in your own words: Your answers will enable us to establish whether or not you should be unblocked.— Diannaa (talk) 01:32, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * What is copyright?
 * How is Wikipedia licenced?
 * Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Wikipedia?
 * Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content?
 * How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future?

What is copyright? The exclusive legal right over material granted to the originator for a fixed term

How is Wikipedia licensed? It is co-licensed under CC BY-SA and GFDL

Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Wikipedia? Because it would violate the copyright of the current owner and could cause legal issues for Wikipedia - this is why information used should be in the public domain.

Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content? If there is explicit permission from the copyright holder or by supplying evidence of non-infringement like hyperlinks to original sources which conform to the licence guidelines and gives credit to the authors.

How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future? By following the rules more closely and being mindful of the specific types of licences. I will also get in touch with the page administrator to confirm things I am unsure of before making the edit to the page.Mayashamcdonald8818 (talk) 12:54, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

July 2021
Hello Mayashamcdonald8818. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Mayashamcdonald8818. 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, do not edit further until you answer this message. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:56, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Magnolia667, I am an employee of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and had disclosed this a year ago when I began making edits to share the rich history the foundation preserves. I've added the aforementioned disclaimer to my page as you've instructed. All of my changes have multiple sources (like reputable news outlets) and do not rely solely on foundation pages or posts. Could you please add the Museum Network section back to the page? It was a laborious task to add each museum and several sources to support the addition. Thank you. Mayashamcdonald8818 (talk) 23:10, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
 * If you look at this edit I reverted, you can see you added:
 * "the Foundation launched the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network with the support of major international institutions".
 * "The Foundation launched the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network in 2021 under the leadership of President Anna Bottinelli".
 * "In 2021, the Foundation announced the launch of the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network".
 * There is no doubt your organization does important work, but the edits you have been adding are promotional. I would strongly encourage you to propose changes on the talk page of articles you wish to edit.  Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:41, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

I understand your position, but I do not believe that giving a full list of institutions that are participating in the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network is promotional. That is factual material that is related to over 20 museums worldwide. That is a core tenant of our foundation and to not have it included is to give people incomplete information. These are facts not promotions and the sourcing indicates as such. I would like to appeal this decision. Mayashamcdonald8818 (talk) 02:31, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts&#32;per the evidence presented at Sockpuppet investigations/Mayashamcdonald8818. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted. 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:. Girth Summit  (blether) 16:44, 15 November 2022 (UTC)