Erin at FndContemporaryArts

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Fndcontemporaryarts", 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, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Gyrofrog (talk) 17:34, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Steve Roden. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

The reference was added to demonstrate that Steve Roden did indeed win the award listed. The link verifies that he received the award. Thank you. Fndcontemporaryarts (talk) 18:04, 18 February 2015 (UTC)Fndcontemporaryarts

Welcome!

Hello, Fndcontemporaryarts, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hello,

Thank you for the message — I appreciate you looking into this. Per user Gyrofrogs's suggestion, have already requested and received a username change to comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

It is understandable that biased content is unwanted on Wikipedia, however all of the information that I have posted is objective. Each individual whose page I have edited has received a Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (a $35,000 cash award to artists in the avant-garde arts community). This is factual information, not subjective commentary about the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in relation to these individuals.

The additions or edits that I have made to these pages state only that the individual received a Grants to Artists Award for a certain year. All of this information can be verified by the artists' CV 's or bios. We just wanted to update the granted artists' pages to reflect that they received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts award (as their pages list other awards they have received).

If there is anything I can do to make these edits more permissible, please let me know.

With thanks, Erin

Erin at FndContemporaryArts (talk) 15:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Erin at FndContemporaryArts

Your promotional edits

All of your edits so far, have been to add links to Foundation for Contemporary Arts a company with which you are associated, this is considered spamming. Because of your conflict of interest please use the talk page of articles to suggest the addition of the link in future. It's not all clear that the addition of the link is improving any of the articles. Theroadislong (talk) 19:30, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 15:36, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

Hello, I'm DissidentAggressor. I noticed that you made a change to an article, John Luther Adams, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. The Dissident Aggressor 21:44, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Cynthia Hopkins. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 21:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at My Barbarian. Theroadislong (talk) 21:54, 4 March 2015 (UTC)