User talk:Sslib/Archives/2014/May

Welcome!
Hi, Sslib. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:46, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, and welcome back! I'm pleased to see that you are making a new start. Thank you in particular for your declaration of conflict of interest. As far as I can see, you were never notified (as you most definitely should have been) of this; I think that was an oversight on my part, for which I apologise. That's all in the past now, but please forgive me for emphasising now that any content you add to Wikipedia must be written entirely in your own words. If you need help or advice, just ask! Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:55, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks Justlettersandnumbers for the information about copyright. I'm not sure if you provided this information to me in reference to my conflict of interest statement or if you provided this information in reference to edits I made on stub pages (or perhaps both)? If it's the latter, it's not clear to me how providing an external link to a freely available authoritative website (i.e., a library catalog record) is an infringement of copyright? Or perhaps it's something else? If you are able to provide some clarity and further explanation on this I would greatly appreciate it. I understand that the stub pages need to be expanded to fuller pages to better support the external link provided. Also, if I didn’t follow a particular editorial style, I would also appreciate some guidance. Thanks for your help as I’m learning the ropes of Wikipedia.Sslib (SarahRSherman) 15:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi! It's sort of a minefield. Adding a lot of external links to the same site, even one as reputable, valuable and interesting as the Getty, is seen as spamming, and is frowned on. That's not the problem that caused the contributor copyright investigation to be opened. That happened because with many of the links you added there was also text copied directly from the Getty website. You also added larger chunks of text copied verbatim from that website to some articles, for example to F. Weber & Company, Inc.. Yes, it is your employer's website; yes, you may for all we know even have written that content yourself; but (except in a very few cases) all text submitted to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. That's what you ran afoul of before, and what I particularly ask you not to run afoul of again. Please feel free to ask if that is not completely clear or if you ever need help or advice. You can attract my attention at any time to this or any other talk page by writing my name like this  (exactly like that, with the curly brackets and all). Enjoy your editing! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:20, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you Justlettersandnumbers Sslib (SarahRSherman)

Suggestions
I use for archiving. There are instructions listed there. Be sure to read WP:EL and WP:RFC. You might also hit up WikiProject Architecture, and/or WikiProject Art. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 20:29, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! And nice to meet you, Chris Troutman  ( talk )  Sslib (SarahRSherman)