User talk:TroyTurner1985

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Copyright problem: Draft:Queen's Birthday Ball and Community Awards
Hello TroyTurner1985! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Draft:Queen's Birthday Ball and Community Awards, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted material from other websites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://web.archive.org/web/20190306190142/http://brisbanepridefestival.com.au/about/queens-ball, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate your contributions, copying content from other websites is unlawful and against Wikipedia's copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are likely to lose their editing privileges.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! — Diannaa (talk) 12:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I have since been granted permission by Brisbane Pride Inc. to use the material according to the instructions above.
 * Can you please advise when I can have the content back? It seems it has been deleted and I can't find how to access it again to reupload and make other requested edits to style. TroyTurner1985 (talk) 23:19, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
Hello TroyTurner1985. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Brisbane Pride Festival, 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.

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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:TroyTurner1985. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:02, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not being paid. I am doing this voluntarily. 121.44.71.136 (talk) 20:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Queens Ball and Community Awards has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Queens Ball and Community Awards. Thanks! -- NotC hariza rd 🗨 04:05, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the feedback. I am progressively adding more references. References, unfortunately, are thin on the ground given the nature of the ball and the time when it started... a lot was kept deliberately underwraps to prevent the queer people who attended from being prosecuted by police. That said, will continue to try and unearth additional sources. TroyTurner1985 (talk) 05:44, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The main point of Wikipedia is to summarise what published sources say about a topic. If there aren't many published sources, it's probably not the right topic for a Wikipedia article. -- NotC hariza rd  🗨 04:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I have updated the material to include substantial sources. TroyTurner1985 (talk) 01:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)