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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "IAMA", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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IAMA (talk) 18:23, 8 September 2016 (UTC)Thank you for these links, I will request our username be changed to fulfill Wiki's policy.

You will also need to complete overhaul the tone of the article on the IAMA. It is written like a promotion for the museum instead of a neutral encyclopedia article. —C.Fred (talk) 18:53, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback Fred. We will revise our draft to be more neutral toned in nature. Thank you for your help!IAMA (talk) 18:58, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination of International Art Museum of America for deletion

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October 2016

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to International Art Museum of America. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello B3May15, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to International Art Museum of America has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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International Art Museum of America

What is your connection with this organization? You basically only edit its article and nothing else, and the material you add is heavily ]romotional in nature, which is not allowed. If you are connected to the museum, you must read and follow our policy on editing with a conflict of interest. If you are paid to edit Wikipedia, but the museum or anyone else, you must read and follow our terms of service and our WP:Paid-contribution disclosure. Do not continue editing without understanding these policies. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:14, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi BMK, I am a volunteer with the museum and this is my first time using this account to edit content on Wikipedia. I apologize if I have done so improperly. I have reviewed the rules you referenced and will endeavor to avoid any such violations. Please let me know what parts you consider "promotional" and I will gladly change them.

Also, I notice that you have completely removed the paragraph describing the museum, which I got straight from the museum's website. Is there a better source for this information? Much of it was simply describing the nature of the collection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by B3May15 (talk • contribs)

Hello BMK, can you please let me know your thoughts on my questions from before? I would like to add new information to the page concerning the artists biographies, collection history, and other pertinent info, but don't want to proceed if it's just going to be removed again. Looking forward to hearing from you.

My thoughts are that you have a serious COI in regards to the museum and should not be editing it at all. If you want to make any changes, indictae what they are on the article's talk page, and other editors will decide if they are warranted. Otherwise, in accordance with our conflict of interest policy, please do not edit the article directly. If you do, your edits will be reverted. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

"That I got straight from the museum's website" - That was why it was removed as promotional - the pupose of the museum's website is to promote the museum., but that it not our purpose. The material was also a copyright violation. Please do not edit the article directly again, make suggestions on the talk page -- but even there you may not ask to have copyrighted material lifted directly from the museum's website added to the article -- it will be rejected.. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)