Mackie1789

February 2021

Hello, I'm Ashleyyoursmile. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Brian Nelson (literature professor), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Ashleyyoursmile! 04:36, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Your edit to Brian Nelson (literature professor) 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 Wikipedia: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—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 Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Newslinger talk 23:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

How Wikipedia works

• If an article is about you, you should not edit it. It is a Conflict of Interest. See WP:COI. Use the talk page to ask for help.
• Do not copy-paste content from other pages, as you did from here. This is a Copyright violation. See WP:COPYVIO.
• Every sentence, every fact, requires a citation. If something is true, but there is no citation, it should not be included. Wikipedia is not truth, it is things that can be cited that also happen to be true. See WP:V. This can create weird and outdated articles, but this is how a community-edited system works - we don't inherently trust anything or anyone who make edits, only what reliable sources say. If the only available sources are outdated, then so will be the article, Wikipedia reports what sources say, it doesn't lead with new information.

-- GreenC 16:52, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Mackie1789, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Brian Nelson (literature professor), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Best practices for editors with close associations
• Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! — Newslinger talk 23:03, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Mackie1789, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! — Newslinger talk 03:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)