Ronsdivas

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May 2014

Your addition to Mary Costa has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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 violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please do not copy and paste text from a website such as you did with http://www.gonewiththetwins.com/pages/news/2008/sleepingbeauty.php. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 17:42, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Mary Costa with this edit, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Jim1138 (talk) 17:49, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

As you are here per Mary Costa and not here to write an encyclopedia, you have a conflict of interest.

Hello, Ronsdivas. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mary Costa, you may have a conflict of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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• Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 17:50, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Mary Costa edit request

You should use an wp:edit requests on the talk page talk:Mary Costa. Disclose your association with Ms. Costa. As the article is on an encyclopedia, the article should be a "warts and all" article. It should not be promotional. Avoid wp:puffery and wp:peacock words. The recommended format is "Original text" followed by "Requested text". The edit request will leave a message on a list of edit requests and an editor (volunteer btw) will make changes or decline to do so. You can ask questions at the wp:teahouse (as well as other ways). Hope this helps! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 18:19, 1 May 2014 (UTC)