User talk:RichardAWiki

September 2017
Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, David Morales, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   18:02, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, RichardAWiki, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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September 2017
Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to David Morales. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

SomeImage.jpg

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:04, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, RichardAWiki. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article David Morales, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate 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).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Reply
I'm back from Spain now, sorry for the delay in replying. I deleted your article because
 * it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to him or his company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what he or his company claims or interviewing him. None of your references were independent third-party sources, and some were actually sales sites. Much of your text lacked any source.
 * In the absence of any verifiable facts, it's not clear that he even meets the notability criteria I've linked above.
 * it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Examples of unsourced or self-sourced claims presented as fact include: more melodic, deeper styles... He is known for the dynamism and layering of his DJ performances... more experimental, forward-thinking releases and grew to involve other artists under the same concept.... Much of the article is promoting his labels rather than writing about him, eg his label Analytic Trail has been consistently supplying Italian techno since it began in 2001
 * You have been advised about conflict of interest above. In particular you should note that if you work directly or indirectly for the him or his organisation, or otherwise are acting on his behalf, you are very 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 paid directly or indirectly by the person or organisation you are writing about, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read this important guidance. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:54, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Joseph Capriati for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Joseph Capriati is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Joseph Capriati& until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:39, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi, i am editing the article to fit the guidelines. it will be done soon. Also, I have updated my page to disclose the COI. Thanks for your advice and hope we can agree to fix the page of Joseph Capriati. Thanks, Richard.

File:Adriatique Photo.jpg
You uploaded, File:Adriatique Photo.jpg, where you either stated or implied that you had permission of a third party to upload it; or that evidence of such permission would be provided on request.

Unless there's some record of that permission, it's harder to confirm if any given permission is genuine. Wikipedia currently needs the permission to be explicitly proven at the time of upload, and recorded in the OTRS permission queue, for this reason.

Please read Requesting copyright permission, which advises on how to confirm permissions you obtained from a third party.

It is also advisable to ask the third-party what source attribution they desire, as opposed to marking the image as having been "sent personally".

If permission is not confirmed, and recorded as detailed above, the media may have to be removed so that Wikipedia stays in compliance with copyright law and policy in some jurisdictions.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:50, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

References at Adriatique
Hi. Please format references at Adriatique article. Please also declare your conflict of interest for this article if you have it. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:31, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Cassy (DJ) moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Cassy (DJ), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GSS (talk |c|em ) 17:31, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Full compliance with WP:PAID
Hello RichardAWiki. I noted from your user page that you occasionally edit Wikipedia for compensation which is allowed by Wikipedia policy, and you have done a good job disclosing your connections. However, note that on your userpage you must provide links to all off-wiki sites on which you advertise Wikipedia editing services, per Paid-contribution disclosure. Please make the necessary links at your earliest possible convenience. Thank you. GSS (talk |c|em ) 07:17, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi, the fact that i make wiki pages sometimes is not listed anywhere online. I do just for a few people who i know personally, and sometimes it is not actually for money, just a favour. thanks

RichardAWiki (talk) 08:53, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cassy (DJ) (May 17)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Shemtovca were:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Cassy (DJ) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Cassy (DJ), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "db-self" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Shemtovca (talk) 00:54, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Cassy (DJ) concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Cassy (DJ), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 00:11, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Adriatique Photo.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Adriatique Photo.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as non-free fair use or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ✗ plicit  07:10, 5 September 2021 (UTC)