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August 2019

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Mary Pope Osborne. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:28, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I made further edits to the Mary Pope Osborne Wikipedia page and published the new page. Last time I made edits they were taken down I believe because it was thought the site was too promotional in nature. We do not intend to make it promotional at all. I am making these edits with Mary Pope Osborne. We only want to get the information correct and inform about the many important facets of her work. We are happy to remove anything that is too promotional in nature but need to know what those items are. Please note that Mary's Classroom Adventures Program is a nonprofit literacy program completely self-funded by Mary which benefits underserved children across the U.S. We added information about this program only to let people know about it, there is nothing to advertise and Mary does not stand to benefit from anyone knowing about the program. I look forward to hearing back from someone about maintaining the edits we have made. Thank you very much!

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CMMTH (talk) 18:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC) CCMTH Cindy Mill cindy@MTHWorldwide.com[reply]

Please see the comments in the two sections immediately below. — Diannaa (talk) 04:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

February 2020

Hello CMMTH. 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 Mary Pope Osborne, 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:CMMTH. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=CMMTH|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. -- a ^{they/them | argue | contribs} 18:38, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response! I am completely new to this and would love your help editing the page properly. I am unable to do this until next week. Is it possible to set up an online chat with you next week to go through the details or what is the best way to handle? There are certain updates that really need to be made to the page and others that you can let me know if they are okay. Thank you again, ~~CMMTH Cindy Mill

Your recent addition

Thank you for your interest in working on Wikipedia. There were some problems with your submission. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

Another problem is you added material that was unsourced, and content that reads more like and advertisement. I have removed everything you added that didn't have a source. What we're looking for is material sourced to independent third-party sources such as magazine articles, books, newspapers, and the like. If there's no such source, don't add the material.

Lastly, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a place to advertise, and unlike LinkedIn, Facebook, or the author's own web page, the person that is the subject of one of our encyclopedia articles (or their representative) does not control the content presented. — Diannaa (talk) 02:11, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]