User talk:TreeofAvalon

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Thank you, Leschneil!TreeofAvalon (talk) 17:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Orlando Symphony Orchestra
Your addition to Orlando Symphony Orchestra has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leschnei (talk • contribs) 13:12, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Note also that your edits included misplaced external links. Furthermore you gave the impression that you may have a conflict of interest. --David Biddulph (talk) 13:31, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


 * TreeofAvalon, please read through the links above to learn more about editing so that your hard work won't be reverted! If you wish to update the Orlando Symphony Orchestra page, please find sources that are independent of the orchestra, like newspaper/magazine reviews (secondary sources) and write up the information in your own words using the sources as references. Leschnei (talk) 13:51, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, David!TreeofAvalon (talk) 20:33, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Copyright and conflict of interest
Thank you for your interest in editing the article Orlando Symphony Orchestra on Wikipedia. There are multiple problems with your submission. You cannot post copyrighted material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. In short, a copyright owner cannot offer Wikipedia a one-time license for use. Rather, the copyright to the material has to be released – permanently and irrevocably – into the public domain or under a free copyright license that is compatible with Wikipedia's licenses. This is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, so all content must be licensed for that purpose. You can learn more about this policy at Copyrights. The second problem is conflict of interest. Writing an article about your own organization or that of a client is strongly discouraged, as it is difficult to maintain the required neutral point of view.

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I'm sorry this message could not be more favourable. If you have any questions, you can leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:28, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Again, Thank you for your help and understanding in my confusion!... and for offering future help. It is much appreciated! :-) TreeofAvalon (talk) 20:34, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:31, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello TreeofAvalon. 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 Orlando Symphony Orchestra, 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:TreeofAvalon. 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. ''You've stated at Teahouse that you are employed by the symphony and that part of your job is to manage their Wikipedia article. First off, you do not manage said article. It is managed, like every other article on Wikipedia, by the Wikipedia community. Second, every edit you've made has been in violation of our legally binding terms of use. Do not make any further edits until you've complied with the requirements for a PAID editor.'' John from Idegon (talk) 17:54, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Again, Thank you for this information. TreeofAvalon (talk) 18:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC) I am learning and digesting this information. Nothing has been meant to be untoward. I am trying to gather information and understand how this community works and how and what I can contribute to it. When I made the original correction to the post it was as a volunteer. Since then, I have been asked by the institution to take over their website for a small compensation. I am NOT getting paid for my input on the Wiki pages. I will look at the information provided. Thank You!TreeofAvalon (talk) 18:45, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Any benefit is considered paid, and must be declared on your User page. Secondly, as paid, you should not directly edit the article. Instead, you should propose changes (with references) on the Talk page of the article. Non-involved editors will decide if your changes are appropriate, and if so, implement them. David notMD (talk) 21:11, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Even though the work on the Wiki page is gratis? Just clarifying. Thanks!TreeofAvalon (talk) 02:47, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If you are being paid by the organization for any purpose whatsoever - not just Wikipedia - that requires a declaration of paid. Your own words: "Being the newly appointed webmaster for the Orlando Symphony Orchestra." And, "small compensation." Paid applies. David notMD (talk) 19:20, 30 July 2019 (UTC)