Beckylunderlund

Hello, Beckylunderlund, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Valerierosetalent (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who use multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 22:08, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Beckylunderlund. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Valerie Rose, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 21:10, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017

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Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 21:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Valerie Rose issues

I will address a couple of the points you raised at User talk:Melcous. The account "Valerierosetalent" was blocked from editing because it violated Wikipedia's username policy - specifically, the provision that an account cannot be named after a business, organization, product or website. Since that account was identical to the website address http://www.valerierosetalent.com/, it was blocked on those grounds.

Ms. Rose should not be creating or editing an article about herself anyway, for reasons explained at Wikipedia is not about YOU and Wikipedia:Autobiography. It is next to impossible for a person to be an effective judge of their own notability, and write about themselves in a plainly factual and objective manner using information taken only from reliable third-party sources. There is too much temptation to use Wikipedia for self-promotion, which is one of many things Wikipedia is not to be used for.

Since you have a personal connection to Ms. Rose, you are also discouraged from editing her article, as this is considered a conflict of interest. Wikipedia doesn't prohibit this type of editing outright, but advises against it for many of the same reasons as we discourage users from writing about themselves. It's reasonable to assume that your connection to the subject can impair your ability to write neutrally about her, even if your intentions are well-meaning. Please review Wikipedia's plain and simple conflict of interest guide for an expanded view on this topic.

One last note about sources. Sources have to be considered reliable and independent of the subject to be accepted. Anything that is authored by the subject such as press releases, blog postings or social media will not be considered reliable. Citing the IMDb is also perilous as its content is also user-generated.

Hopefully this has given you some insight. Best of luck. --Drm310 (talk) 21:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Drm310 for your response and answering many of these questions. And thanks for your message on my talk page Becky. A couple of other things:

Notability on wikipedia needs to be established by reliable, secondary sources. At this stage, the only links on the page are to primary sources (i.e. ones that are directly connected to Rose and her work) which is why the maintenance tags remain at the top of the page.

As said above, as you have a conflict of interest, you are discouraged from editing the article directly, but you are very welcome to suggest improvements on its talk page. If you are able to find secondary sources - i.e. newspapers articles, journals or books unrelated to Rose that talk about her and her work, I would suggest you put them there and we can see if they help establish her notability and provide references for the content of the article.

Inline citations means something specific on wikipedia - you had both added superscript numbers but that is not how it is done. There is a helpful page on how to add proper footnotes using <ref> tags here: Help:Footnotes, but again if you can point us to these kinds of sources, then they one of us without a conflict can insert them as footnotes into the article

I have re-inserted the photo, I think it was removed because it was mistakenly assumed copyright permission had not been given, but it appears to be ok. (If it isn't, it will automatically be removed after a certain period of time anyway)

Thanks, Melcous (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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