User talk:Joan Silver

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January 2015[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sharon Davson has been reverted.
Your edit here to Sharon Davson was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWGOgfjL3I) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Joan Silver, you are invited to the Teahouse![edit]

Hi Joan Silver! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Come join experienced editors at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a space where new editors can get help from experienced editors. These editors have been around for a long time and have extensive knowledge about how Wikipedia works. Come share your experiences, ask questions, and get advice from experts. I hope to see you there! Technical 13 (I'm a Teahouse host)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: World Flag (January 8)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MatthewVanitas was:

This submission's references do not adequately evidence the subject's notability—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:World Flag and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:11, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sharon Davson[edit]

Hi. I'm sending this message out to recent major contributors on the article about Sharon Davson. Please keep in mind that it must adhere to the policy on biographies on living people, as well as other policies and guidelines such as the one on external links, neutrality and reliable sources just to mention a few. The article was mostly based on self-published sources, or sources that couldn't verify the content. In addition there was a list of external links that didn't belong, as most of them were trivial mentions with little importance. In addition it had a very promotional and exaggerating tone, so I have removed quite a bit of the article. If you are a major contributor to an article you should also not remove maintenance templates, but rather have outside editors review the article and see if the issues have been resolved. Feel free to ask if you have any questions or comments; preferably on my talkpage. Bjelleklang - talk 00:01, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I saw that you reverted my edits to this article. We cannot use self-published or biased sources as basis for statements such as "She was the first President of the new College of Art Student Union"; "An expansive retrospective collection (65 works 1972-1999) of her art titled "Davson - With Gratitude For The Light" toured in four states of Australia for the three years". You also cannot state things that are not backed by sources; such as "Davson was also a significant Sponsor of the Middle East Peace Run"; when both sources used only state that she was a donor to the event. There is also seems to be a bit of a specific point-of-view in this article, and it looks more like a promotional piece than an encyclopedic article. Please keep in mind that the significance of Wikipedia only exists because editors try to keep the information neutral and not biased towards a specific view.

As for the external links section; please stop flooding it with links. If some of them can be used as sources; great! If not, they shouldn't be there with some exceptions. Linking to the website for her as an artist and her museum is fine, but other than that we should avoid having links there at all unless they are very relevant.

Based on your removal of the maintenance templates, edit summaries ((...)malicious attact, Attempt to discredit with very outdated information) and your refusal to take good advice regarding the article I suspect that you have a conflict of interest in this article. I have reverted your edits; please review the policy on biographies before doing anything to the article. Refusal to abide with Wikipedia policies and guidelines will result in you being blocked, and thus being unable to edit at all. Bjelleklang - talk 08:03, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for January 20[edit]

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Disambiguation link notification for January 27[edit]

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Blocked as a sockpuppet[edit]

This account has been blocked indefinitely as a sock puppet of Janine Thompson (talk · contribs · global contribs · page moves · user creation · block log) that was created to violate Wikipedia policy. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that all edits made while evading a block or ban may be reverted or deleted. If this account is not a sock puppet, and you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}} below. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Mike V • Talk 19:55, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:World Flag[edit]

Hello, Joan Silver. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "World Flag".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at WP:REFUND/G13. An administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:29, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]