User talk:Davidamescurtis

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, Davidamescurtis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion 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 {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Tikiwont (talk) 15:25, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A, well we have this habit of welcoming people, preferably before they get warnings or complaints as first thing on their talk page, but it was indeed rather late in your case. I simply noticed the red link to your talk page when you edited Glen Newey which was still on my watch list after I deleted an earlier version as copyright violation.--Tikiwont (talk) 07:44, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2010[edit]

This is your only warning.
The next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced defamatory content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to Vincent Descombes, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Sandstein 20:18, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do not add external links to your personal projects[edit]

Adding links to projects in which you have a strong personal role (as your username suggest you do at the "Thoreau Polymonophoonic Journal Project") is considered "COI" editing and strongly discouraged. Check out Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide for more advice on editing when you have a conflict of interest. HouseOfChange (talk) 22:41, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. Didn't know about this. I was just trying to provide reliable, relatable information for everyone about a project relating to Thoreau that is open to all. I read now that I should "not edit or create articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors." But I'm not Thoreau, a no longer living person, which is who this article is about. I make no money off of the website in question. It is a public service, based on publicly available information (his journals).

Perhaps you could add this link yourself, if you feel that there is a conflict of interest on my part and you do not have one yourself? That would be most welcome. All this is meant in the spirit of comradely exchange and sharing. If I'm still mistaken, I apologize. Davidamescurtis (talk) 23:33, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to add any links to your project myself because I know nothing about it except that a website exists. Wikipedia is in the business of repeating things that other independent sources have said before us. I suggest trying to get some interest from a local paper or from other Thoreauvians. Submit a paper for the annual gathering or one of the newsletters of the Thoreau Society in Concord, for example. Wikipedia is not the place to promote your projects, profit-making or not. Once there are news articles, etc. about your project, then such a link might be a good secondary source, which we prefer to primary ones. HouseOfChange (talk) 17:58, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]