User talk:Rosieacooper

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Hello, Rosieacooper, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

Did you know that ...
 * ...Wikipedia has a very stringent image use policy?
 * ...most images from Flickr, online news websites, and other web sources are copyrighted?
 * ...Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously?
 * ...freely-licensed images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a central location for images where they can be used on all Wikipedia projects?
 * ...we recommend that new users use our "files for upload" process – at least until you get the hang of things?

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type  on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Questions or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Magnolia677 (talk) 21:51, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
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March 2021
Hello Rosieacooper. The nature of your edits 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:Rosieacooper. 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) 23:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hey User:Magnolia677. I'm not being paid to do this. I am doing Wikipedia things on a volunteer basis. Thanks for your concern though -- I understand the problems with paid contributions are serious. Rosieacooper (talk) 23:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * On your talk page you wrote that you are working in the digitization of historic photos at Middle Georgia Regional Library, and your edits consist of adding recently-uploaded historic images from the Middle Georgia Archives. What is your connection? Magnolia677 (talk) 23:41, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

user:magnolia677 Yes, I am a children's librarian in that library system. We have a wikimedia committee here that we could volunteer to help on. Sorry if I misunderstood what you meant, I guess that it could be said it is indirect payment since it is through my workplace. I was given training through the Digital Public Library of America. I am actually not sure of the specifics of all of this, like what initiative it is and what have you. I feel pretty unqualified for this discussion honestly. I won't edit anything for now though because I don't want to break any rules. Sorry for my confusion and thanks again. Rosieacooper (talk) 23:58, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * It's wonderful that you are trying to improve Wikipedia, and photos are always welcome. Things get messy when you edit pages that you have a connection to, although your edits are 100 percent good faith edits. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:08, 5 March 2021 (UTC)