User talk:Minacciosa

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Minacciosa! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created  is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 20:02, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) John McLaughlin Williams -

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Minacciosa! Your additions to John McLaughlin Williams have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 22:52, 29 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Dianna; I appreciate your vigilance. However, all of the content is original to me. I (minacciosa) am John McLaughlin Williams. I wrote the original article and the updates are all original to me. There is no copyrighted material at all in this entry. Please replace my updates as soon as possible. Feel free to contact me directly at minacciosa@gmail.com. Thank you - JMW Minacciosa (talk) 22:58, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry but the content you added has already been published elsewhere online, including here, here, here, here, and more. So we can't accept it unless it's released under a compatible license. If you are the subject of the article, you shouldn't be editing it anyway, as you have a conflict of interest. See the template below for more info on this topic. — Diannaa (talk) 23:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It is literally my biography written by me that I use for informational purposes. Just like the original entry, it is not and has never been copyrighted. Parts of it are used with my permission in various places on the web. All of the instances of prior use you quote were provided to those sources by me. As for a CoI, this is wiki! It is user edited and I am a user. We both have seen egregious examples of malicious user editing but that is clearly not the case here. I am simply providing basic information about a public figure (me) who has one small claim to public historical interest, namely that I’m the first black person to win a Grammy in the classical field for orchestral conducting. This is a clear case of public interest, it provides information that is not readily available to most without serious research, and in the current climate, it shows that progress has been made in fields where we are seriously underrepresented. Don’t you think that is important for the nation to know? Please restore my edits. With best regards - JMW Minacciosa (talk) 23:40, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Under current copyright law, literary works are subject to copyright whether they are tagged as such or not. No registration is required, and no copyright notice is required. This means that since it's been published online, the biography is protected by copyright. If you are the copyright holder and wish to release this material under a compatible license, please see WP:Donating copyrighted materials for an explanation of how to do it. There's a sample permission email at WP:Consent. — Diannaa (talk) 00:48, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Diannaa; I have submitted the donation email as instructed. What happens next? - JMW Minacciosa (talk) 01:06, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The permission email will be reviewed bhy a member of the Volunteer Response Team and if everything checks out okay they will issue a ticket showing which license the content is now available under. This may take a while as they typically have a large backlog of emails to assess.I have to warn you that the promotional unencyclopedic tone of the text I removed is not suitable for Wikipedia. It reads more like a blurb I would find in a programme guide than an encyclopedia article. Interested Wikipedians will be able to remove or alter the text to suit our needs even if it's compatibly licensed, — Diannaa (talk) 10:34, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 23:34, 29 March 2023 (UTC)