Name This Place

October 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Ables Springs, Texas, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. NJD-DE (talk) 20:09, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Abernathy, Texas. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Please stop adding a line. Please stop cutting and pasting exactly as you see it in your book. Plagiarism is not acceptable on Wikipedia. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:28, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello Name This Place. The nature of your edits 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:Name This Place. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Name This Place|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. Please describe your connection to the book "Texas Place Names", by Edward Callary. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:38, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Magnolia677

I keep trying to fix the reported problems or issues with our Name This Place account, and Magnolia677 keeps deleting my work. We have some interesting information to share about Texas place names based on three+ years of research that went into the publication of Texas Place Names (University of Texas Press). We're just trying to update or correct posts from Fred Tarpley's book or other sources. We want to create entries for Texas towns that aren't yet represented. UTP has advised us to paraphrase, not cut and paste. Not a problem -- I spent a lot of time doing that...twice! Lots of books are used as citation/references on Wiki. Why is our work any different? Who is Magnolia677 and why is he/she doing this? Edward and Jean K. Callary Name This Place (talk) 21:30, 25 October 2020 (UTC)