LibraryLadyA

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! DanCherek (talk) 17:35, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021

Your edit to Maryland State Library 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. DanCherek (talk) 19:24, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

As I explained on my talk page, please follow the correct steps to release the material under a compatible license and request edits on the article's talk page. Do not edit war to restore your preferred version of the article. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 19:25, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello LibraryLadyA. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Maryland State Library, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:LibraryLadyA. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LibraryLadyA|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:13, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi - Here is where I'm confused. I thought I had -I had noted it at the top and in the references section. I have gone back and added the disclosure to my profile too. How do I add it to the article, so it's seen?

The part I'm trying to understand is the "advocate" or "references" section. There isn't information available from other resources, besides the Agency website and an outdated state directory. If there is going to be a Wikipedia page, then it needs to be accurate. If it cannot be accurate, or if we cannot edit it to be accurate, then I need to have it deleted. The incorrect information, as we are a State Agency, can truly harm our Agency. The information I provided in my revision is taken directly from our website, which I am in charge of... so again, I don't know what else to do. DanCherek keeps saying I have to release it into the public domain in Wikipedia, and I went through the automated thing... I'm waiting on a response. But the information that is on there now is wholly inaccurate and points to pages that do not exist.

What is my next step?