User talk:MichaelBorum

File:StacySchiff Wikipedia FreeUseImage.jpg
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File copyright problem with File:Robin Hemley.jpg
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Replaceable fair use File:Stacy Schiff 2010 Photo by Elena Seibert.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Christopher Castellani 2.jpg
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File permission problem with File:StacySchiff Wikipedia FreeUseImage.jpg
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 * hi, nice picture. however, there is a fair use policy that limits their use to deceased people. wp:NFCC if your subject really prefers this, rather than a texas book fair photo, then you should release a photo under a creative commons license. also, if you have a conflict of interest wp:COI. you might want to declare this on your user page. (i may be replaceing your image, sorry). Duckduckstop (talk) 20:29, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Stacy Schiff giving the keynote address at the 2014 BIO Conference in Boston, MA.jpg
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Copy and pasting
We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. See also Copy-paste. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please follow the directions at Donating copyrighted materials to grant license. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:13, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Such as you did from http://www.booksincommon.org/authors-books/author-profile/?author_id=698
 * Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:13, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. duffbeerforme (talk) 13:16, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Username/Conflict of Interest/Paid Editing
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Etherweave", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 20:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Etherweave. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 20:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I have never received compensation for any edits or contributions I have made, even if they were to articles for people I know personally. I do not profess to be an expert Wikipedia editor, and I do not market myself as such, nor do I sell my services for this purpose. I have updated pages as a favor to people I know because they lack the technical ability to do so themselves. The information I added or changed--provided by them--was factual in nature, verified by me, and cited. It's possible that some references or quotes that were given crossed a line into being too subjective and not useful for Wikipedia's purposes, and I have advised my friends that such quotes and references aren't allowed. I'm happy to disclose my relationship with someone if that's helpful, though I hope it will have no bearing on whether an editor considers the information worthy of inclusion simply because of the contributor's relationship with the subject. Facts are facts. --Etherweave (talk) 18:17, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It's worth noting that verifiable doesn't warrant inclusion. WP:IINFO. Please also see WP:Advertising Graywalls (talk) 16:56, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware that all content contributed is subject to review and may be removed. Thanks. MichaelBorum (talk) 18:20, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Stacy Schiff, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Graywalls (talk) 19:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello Etherweave. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Stacy Schiff, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Etherweave. 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. Continuing to add awards and such Graywalls (talk) 23:43, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Graywalls (talk) 15:52, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Username policy
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Etherweave", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 18:13, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. 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:. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019
Hi friends. Thanks for the heads-up that I'm apparently violating rules I wasn't aware existed after 15 years of editing content here without any issues. I understand times change, and we are living through particularly nightmarish times where the reliability and integrity of information is critically important. Please allow me to clarify: I have never been paid by anyone to create or edit a page on Wikipedia. I engage in freelance website design and development for a number of public figures, some of them famous or otherwise noteworthy. My contracts do not contain any reference to Wikipedia whatsoever, and I do not accept payment for making edits to their pages, if they exist. It is done as a free service only, and I have made it clear to all of my clients that updates must be factual and require citations, and that papering their entries with fawning reviews isn't exactly what this is for, even if those reviews can be cited.

I have, on occasion, copied and pasted content from another source because it was literally a quote that was needed for the entry page and I didn't have time to re-key it. It was a quotation of a quotation and not original content. I know the difference. (One particularly controversial sentence, from the article for Stacy Schiff, "Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications," which was flagged as plagiarism by me, is almost verbatim a sentence that appear ON HER OWN WEBSITE, which I maintain on her behalf!)

As for my username, I have been using it for 15 years. If you need a more transparent username, fine--I have no problem with that. I have submitted a request to change it to one that reflects my name. I have literally NOTHING to hide from anyone. --Etherweave (talk) 18:18, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Itemized or Wikipedia specific contract is not a requisite to be considered paid editing.
 * "Payment or compensation: money, goods or services. Users who are compensated for any publicity efforts related to the subject of their Wikipedia contributions are deemed to be paid editors, regardless of whether they were compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia. source" Graywalls (talk) 21:06, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

OK, sounds reasonable to me. So I'm a "paid editor," and apparently that's acceptable as long as I disclose that information? MichaelBorum (talk) 18:16, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Paid editors are still highly discouraged from editing on their clients. Your former user name, although non-compliant was not the primary reason you were blocked as I understand it. It is all about repeated acts of Undisclosed Paid Editing. Graywalls (talk) 02:30, 14 May 2019 (UTC)