Lightspear451

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Michel Mulipola

Nice work! That's a good bio for a newish editor indeed. I've done a little bit of editing and if anything doesn't make sense, please ask. Here's good. Just a couple of tips: when you include bold-font alt names, you ought to do something with those. In this case, what needed to happen is as follows:

• Set up a redirect for Bloody Samoan
• Add an entry to the disambiguation page Liger

Keep up your good work! Schwede66 22:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Moana Leota

Hello, Lightspear451. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Moana Leota, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Stellar Pritchard

Hello, Lightspear451. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Stellar Pritchard, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Moana Leota

Hello, Lightspear451. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Moana Leota".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:36, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Stellar Pritchard

Hello, Lightspear451. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Stellar Pritchard".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Ali Ekeroma Cowley moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Ali Ekeroma Cowley. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 15:39, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for January 28

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Noma Sio-Faiumu moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Noma Sio-Faiumu. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. The Night Watch (talk) 02:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Lina Marsh

Welcome to Wikipedia! It's great to see your contributions on Pasifika artists, and I hope you'll stick around. It's a bit of a learning curve for sure. I picked up the Lina Marsh article because I saw the article was "orphaned" (not linked on any other articles) and missing categories; these are optional things you can think about adding in the future to make your articles easier to find.

The amendments I've made to the article are largely about complying with Wikipedia's verifiability and sourcing requirements, as well as the need for articles to be worded neutrally and in an encyclopedic tone. Happy to help if you have any questions about any of this at all. :)

One thing I did want to flag is the image you've uploaded to Lina Marsh's page. While images are great if they can be added, Wikimedia Commons has quite strict rules about what can be uploaded. Unless you're the copyright holder or can provide explicit evidence that the copyright holder has released the image under an appropriate free licence, the image is probably going to be deleted. This infographic explains it more clearly than I can! I hope you won't be discouraged by this, as your work is contributing to coverage of underrepresented artists on Wikipedia, and am happy to chat further if you have any questions. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 21:22, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Hey Man Thank you heaps. Sorry I don't really reply to comments. Thank you very much for your edits and I will look into your suggestions. Lightspear451 (talk) 18:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Biographies of women

Hi there, Lightspear451, and thank you for creating a number of detailed biographies of women. If you intend to continue along these lines, you might like to join WikiProject Women in Red where we are trying to improve coverage of women on Wikipedia. You can sign up under "New Registrations" on Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/New members. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 07:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Matthew Salapu-Faiumu, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 19:20, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry DI2000 I'm a new editor and I thought it wasn't a big deal. I thought they were just pop ups honestly and it's my mistake and I apologies for not replying sooner and adhering sooner. Honestly I just make edits and care about writing articles about people from my community and that the articles look good in case people see it because you don't really see those on good articles so I thought you could just delete them. That is my mistake. Lightspear451 (talk) 18:54, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

_signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:28, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Hey I can see why you've done this but I do have, in my view, valid reasonings as to why it would look that way. I'm a new editor who was inspired to write wikipedia articles about figures in my community who haven't gotten one because they, most of the time, aren't notable enough to stay on the website when culturally and contextually that is very contestable. Wikipedia's editing systems and guidelines don't have space for the respect of the cultural customs of my Pacific community, I interviewed the people I have written articles about because according to my cultural customs that is the respectful thing to do, to let them have autonomy over a very public document that a lot of our people don't understand the importance of, that's what I try and get them on board with before I write the article. In regards to my failure to adhere to comments, I didn't know the importance of replying to comments and interacting with the wikipedia community because the majority of the editing systems to a young person like me are outdated and it took me a real long time to get past how to basically write and article so once I did that all I cared about, not making sure my edits were okay to a community that I didn't trust and that's on me too. I'm just trying to make a difference in my community and I know this is the most effective way I can do that for free and with autonomy and yes I have made big mistakes but they have been taken out of context and were made out of ignorance and defensive perspective towards the wikipedia community because the majority of article authors and editors are not People of Colour and in that immature way I have a lot more reasons to not trust editors on here than I do to trust them. I was just trying to protect my work and I apologise. I'm also building up my catalouge of articles so when I edit more articles on Pacific people or topics people know that I know what I'm talking about and respect the cultural context of the articles I'm editing because while that may not be important to the wikimedia foundation, it is important to Pacific Islanders. I have not been compensated for any of my edits and I will read the terms of use before I make my appeal. In the future I will leave those automatic comments at the top completely alone! and will make an effort to read and reply and take note of the users that interact with my articles. Lightspear451 (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)