User talk:YoloArts

Hello, YoloArts and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Killiondude (talk) 00:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Yolo County Arts Council

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed your edits to the Yolo County Arts Council page. Due to your account name, I realize you are probably either an employee or volunteer for the council and as such you might have a conflict of interest in the page. That doesn't mean you cannot edit it, but I just wanted to let you know a few things.

1. Content added must be cited. We ask that all content added to Wikipedia be referenced to a reliable source so that other can verify its accuracy. We also prefer that citations be given from sources that are independent of the subject (news articles, etc.) that are either online or in print. Feel free to reference the council's website on occasion, but I wouldn't make it completely dependent on that alone.
2. Wikipedia is not a directory. (See WP:NOTDIR) Not all information about a business/organization needs to be added to its Wikipedia page.
3. Wikipedia articles must have a neutral point of view. (WP:NPOV) Wikipedia isn't here to support or disparage any entity but rather to provide in a neutral manner information that other (reliable) sources have published.

To that end, I'm reverting the changes you've made to the article. It was massive information overload (not all encyclopedic information) and none of it was cited. Hope that info above helps and let me know if you need any clarification. Killiondude (talk) 00:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Additionally, I've deleted the images you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as they are not free (Commons only hosts files that are freely licenced). They should be uploaded to the English Wikipedia under a fair use rationale (choose the fair use option in the upload process). Killiondude (talk) 00:37, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, YoloArts, does not meet our username policy.

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Daniel Case (talk) 14:02, 28 February 2012 (UTC)