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Your submission at Articles for creation: International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection (July 15) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
SwisterTwister talk 20:17, 15 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. SwisterTwister talk 15:18, 11 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Disambiguation pages edit

Please note that disambiguation pages like Elati are meant to help readers find a specific existing article quickly and easily. For that reason, they have guidelines that are different from articles. From the Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts you should:

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Thank you. Leschnei (talk) 13:41, 3 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

June 2022 edit

 
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website – I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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 Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 20:51, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia and copyright edit

  Hello Centriciti! While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
  • Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
  • We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
  • If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
  • Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:02, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello, thank you for highlighting the concerns and policies re: copyright. It appears this was in response to edits I made around available health insurance providers & enrollment statistics in specific geographies. I was looking for this information for my own research purposes and found it available on Wikipedia in some articles, absent in many, and very much out of date / inaccurate for others (e.g. California). This seems like useful & important information for Wikipedia readers, and it's concerning much of it is inaccurate or dated. Most of the information I copied from various sources was simply the list of providers. I'm aware of the need to paraphrase, and thought I was doing that, although in hindsight I expect I could have made a better effort with paraphrasing. I cannot see my exact edits now because they have been reverted, but I'm pretty sure I even reordered a couple of the lists in alphabetical order. With regards to a list of providers, I'm not sure how to improve on paraphrasing. Centriciti (talk) 03:50, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I found you had copied copyright content into the following articles :Chicago, Healthcare in Texas, Healthcare in New York (state), Florida. Copying lists if fine; the problem is you copied the leading paragraph as well as the commentary about the items in the list into the Florida article, for example. Source was this webpage. — Diannaa (talk) 04:07, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the prompt response and clarification. In hindsight I recognize I could have made a better effort changing the language of the surrounding content, although at I thought I had altered it sufficiently. Centriciti (talk) 04:13, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
 
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Eccentriciti (block logactive blocksglobal blockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Request reason:

Centriciti is a handle to which I am personally attached, it's just me not a group or organization, and I was claiming it so nobody else would use it. My edits follow my personal interests and are not promotional. That said, I'm open to changing my username to something else if it avoids any confusion in the future, happy to dialogue about this. Centriciti (talk) 03:30, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Accept reason:

See below. — Diannaa (talk) 14:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

It's best if you choose a new username, because "Centriciti provides results-oriented strategic marketing expertise" according to their website. The username makes it appear that you are being paid to edit Wikipedia on behalf of clients. — Diannaa (talk) 03:59, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

 
This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Requested username:

Request reason:

Changing name for sake of appearances Centriciti (talk) 04:08, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please select an option from Wikipedia:Changing username and file a request as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. — Diannaa (talk) 14:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

August 2023 edit

  Your edit to TTEC 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. — Diannaa (talk) 18:39, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Diannaa, may we discuss? I edited this article noting it had a request to expand Products & Services section, as this section was otherwise absent any content. I summarized what I found in the company’s most recent SEC filing, and took care not to copy it verbatim. Did you review the citation reference to note how my edit is different from the source material? Not sure it’s relevant considering my content is different, but I’m obviously not the copyright holder and do not represent the company. if you have a better suggestion for expanding this section, I am all ears. Eccentriciti (talk) 19:27, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
The content I removed was a very close match for content found in this document. Here is a link to the CopyPatrol report. Click on the iThenticate link to view what was found by the detection service. It's a match. Regardless of the copyright issue, those descriptions don't really tell us what those services do; they're just meaningless adspeak at this point. If you could describe these services in your own words instead, that would be perfect. — Diannaa (talk) 19:34, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks @Diannaa for the prompt reply and for sharing the CopyPatrol report. I was curious how this flagged. This is frustrating because I deliberately retained only the top level services that I believed were comprehensible to most people and avoided their marketing jargon. What I kept were services such as customer relationship management, data, analytics, automation, customer experience, artificial intelligence, order fulfillment, fraud management, all of of which are industry standard terms (I’m a technology business guy) and many of which correspond to wikipedia articles (hence the addition of wikilinks). So these terms mean something to people in the tech industry (as well as mainstream society) and I doubt very much I could offer better words. Again I specifically did not include their language listed in the 10K that I considered more vague or proprietary to their marketing / brand lingo. I just took a look at their site and discovered they have a second site for TTEC Digital, so I’ll take another crack at this trying to rationalize services sourced across all three sites / documents. Eccentriciti (talk) 20:09, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply