User talk:ArtofFrankWright

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Frank Wright (painter), and I noticed that your username, "ArtofFrankWright", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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August 2020

Your addition to Frank Wright (painter) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. NJD-DE (talk) 10:26, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear NJD-DE I am the copyright holder of Frank Wright (painter) Frank Wright recently died. I am his daughter, the executor of his estate and have power of attorney.

I am clearly a first time contributor to Wikipedia and made mistakes!

I manage my father's web page, [[1]] as well as his email, artoffrankwright@gmail.com. I added text to his Wikipedia page from his paid death notice, which I wrote.

How do I do this right?

ArtofFrankWright (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)artoffrankwright[reply]

PS, A former student of my father's (Redacted) started a Wikipedia page without my father's consent.

Hi - I've removed the name of the person you say started the page in question in order to protect their privacy. It is strictly forbidden to reveal the identity of other editors here - see WP:DOXXING - only an individual user can decide whether or not to make their real identity known. Please don't mention that name again.

So, the consent of a subject is not required for someone to write an article about that subject. Indeed, our conflict of interest guidance indicates that you should not edit the article of a person who is known to you. You should not, therefore, edit the page about your father, but you are welcome to make edit requests, suggesting that changes be made to it, and other uninvolved editors will evaluate them.

In order for us to use any images of your father's work, you will need to release them under an appropriate licence, and you will need to demonstrate that you are indeed the copyright holder. The best way for you to do that would be via e-mail to the WP:OTRS volunteer team - they will be able to provide information about how best to go about doing that.

Finally, I think that you should request a change of username - usernames which unambiguously represent websites are not permitted by our username policy. Something like "Jo@ArtofFrankWright" would be fine, but it needs to identify an individual. The instructions for requesting a change of name are at WP:UNC.

I hope this all makes sense, best GirthSummit _(blether) 15:39, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[[User talk:Girth Summit| Thanks so so much for the help! I am an art historian but OLD (in my 50s!), so I get everything you are saying. The ways of Wikipedia all just super new to me! I didn't get, for example, that this conversation was public... Of course need to protect user identity!!!

I understand now that articles are written by others, not the subject of the article or their family, etc.

I will submit text to "edit requests" and will change my user name. Thank you!

September 2020

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:

Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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