User talk:GinaGenovese

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[edit] Gina Genovese

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gina Genovese, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
  2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
  3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
    and you must always:
  4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

Accounts used solely for blatant self-promotion may be blocked without further warning.

For more details, please read the Conflict of Interest guideline. Thank you. -WarthogDemon 19:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Copyright status of Gina Genovese

Please do not post copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Gina Genovese. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites (http://www.ginagenovese.com/about/ in this case) or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

  • If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
  • If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Gina Genovese with a link to where we can find that note;
  • If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on the article Talk page. Alternatively, you may create a note on your web page releasing the work under the GFDL and then leave a note at Talk:Gina Genovese with a link to the details.

Otherwise, you are encouraged to rewrite this article in your own words to avoid any copyright infringement. After you do so, you should place a {{hangon}} tag on the article page and leave a note at Talk:Gina Genovese saying you have done so. An administrator will review the new content before taking action.

It is also important that all Wikipedia articles have an encyclopedic tone and follow Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Indon (reply) — 19:45, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

This is your last warning. The next time you create an inappropriate page, such as Gina Genovese, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — Indon (reply) — 20:06, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Please, please, please hold up on your editing. I have blocked you for 15 minutes so that we can try to talk and get a handle on the problems before things spiral out of control. - TexasAndroid 20:14, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

OK. A little breather. There are several major problems with the article you have posted, that are going to continue to get it deleted if they are not dealt with. The copyright issue is the first one. It appears likely that you are indeed the copyright holder, or represent them Please read the center section on Template:Copyvio about how to formally establish this. Also keep in mind, you will be releasing your text under the GFDL license if you do place it on the project. This means, amoung other things, that anyone else can use the text if they follow the terms of the GFDL. Including your opponent. Just something to keep in mind. More to come.... - TexasAndroid 20:20, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Next up is WP:NPOV and WP:COI. Neutral Point of View. All articles on the project are supposed to be written from such a point of view. This has to be with tone as well as content. COI is Conflict of Interest, and goes into why it is almost always a Very Bad Thing for the subjects of articles to be writing their own articles. Please read these two links, as your article is likely to be deleted as blatant adversising for yourself even if you get past the copyright hurdle. More to come.... - TexasAndroid 20:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Finally, we have WP:BIO and WP:SOURCE. Notability. Not just anyone can have an article on the project. They have to meet notability requirements. This may be your biggest hurdle, because I do not really see that you have met the politician requirements. If you cannot meet the requirements, then your article may be doomed from the start. More to come... - TexasAndroid 20:27, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

A few other things that you have been doing wrong. For one thing, the writer of an article should never remove Speedy deletion tags from their articles, even if they beleive that they have complied with teh deficiency. It is up to an admin to judge the speedy tag and either delete the article (as I did a couple of times) or decline the speedy (as I did once). Also, barreling ahead and repeatedly recreating the article after it has been deleted is a fast-track to getting it blocked from recreation and you blocked from editing. I only blocked you for 15 minutes this time, to try to put the brakes on the situation. The block will soon expire. At that point you will have to deal with all these issues again. Please read the links I have provided. They will help you know what you are doing wrong, and how to do things right, before you or other people get upset at each other, and someone, quite likely you, end up blocked for a longer period of time. - TexasAndroid 20:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)