Constancemary

This user has claimed to be Constance Demby when rewriting her own biography: "As the artist, all information is from my official website www.constancedemby.com"[1]

Autobiography

Please read WP:AUTO. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issue with Constance Demby

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Constance Demby, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.healingmusic.org/ConstanceDemby/index.asp. As a copyright violation, Constance Demby appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Constance Demby has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Constance Demby and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Constance Demby with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Constance Demby.

However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

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Need help?

If you need help with this article, and you are Constance Demby or related, best would be to provide material on the talk page at Talk:Constance Demby, and let other editors create an article that is compliant with Wikipedia content policies. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

COI

Having claimed being Constance Demby[2], your recurrent edits such as in 2007, in 2008, in 2009, are in violation of Wikipedia's rules about verifiability and conflict of interest: If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. 10:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Warning

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Smartse (talk) 10:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Once again I must reiterate that editing of an article about yourself is not permitted except to remove libellous information. I have reverted your edit. If you have a reliable source to say that you are a grammy nominated artist then please post this on the talk page of the article and then other editors will consider whether it should be added. Please message me on my talk page if you have any queries with regards to this. Thanks Smartse (talk) 14:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Constructive suggestions

In addition to what others said above, I will add that vandalizing your own article every week, as you just did again[3] (creating an edit conflict while I was sorting its errors) is just going to attract extra editor attention to your bio. You'd better focus on providing us with useable references, such as adding more (non self-promotional) details on your own site, and then post on the article's talk page about it, so that real editors can improve the article (using your site's pages for reference).

For instance, we have no reliable source whatsoever for the "Grammy-nominated" claim (nothing at Grammy.com, nothing at Google News, nothing at Google Books), which should eventually be deleted per the WP:VERIFY policy. Constructive suggestion: If you have an old magazine that gives the list of all Grammy noms for 1986 (or 1987??), you could scan that page at legible resolution and post it on your website, with a link to it on your page for Novus (along with exact source reference: magazine title, issue number, date, article title and author, page). That would allow us to source and keep this Grammy claim in the article. — Ekans ^talk @ 18:46, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Warning

You have been previously warned yet have continued to edit an article that you appear to be the subject of:

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Smartse (talk) 20:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you use Wikipedia for advertising, as you did with Constance Demby, you will be blocked from editing.  Sandstein  04:53, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Constance Demby

This is Constance Demby ... and today - Bruce - my Wikipedia helper (whom I assumed understood the rules of Wiki) and I launched the new extended version of my music career on my Wiki page, and I was about to work on it tonite when I saw your messages. Bruce is now in shock just like I am, as he was unaware that you cant quote from your website, which I didnt realize either. If this was mentioned in the past, I've forgotten it as I'm overloaded with two careers and doing everything myself...

So first of all let me say I apologize for not understanding the rules, but let me also say, I was not aware that you can't quote from your own website, nor was my Wiki helper aware of that. Since I designed the website and wrote a lot of the material there, I dont quite understand why one cant quote their own writings? I've spent hours and hours rewriting and extending my bio and my life as an artist starting at 8 years old precisely for the Wiki page.

We have not purposely tried to get away with anything, we simply don't understand the rules. Please do not ban the site from being edited. Thank you for your patience, and I'll ask Bruce to continue the conversation with you.

Best Constance DembyConstancemary (talk) 05:45, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I am copying this thread from my talk page to your own talk page for ease of communication.

There are several problems with your recent edit:

• It has a promotional tone. On Wikipedia, all content must be presented from a neutral point of view, and promotion (especially self-promotion) is prohibited.
• It is not supported by reliable sources, as all Wikipedia content is required to be per the verifiability policy. Your own website is not a reliable source about you, as it is not independent of you.
• You are in a conflict of interest when writing about yourself: you want to promote yourself, but as a Wikipedia editor you are required to help write a neutral encyclopedia.

Accordingly, at least until you have demonstrated a thorough understanding of these rules by writing about topics other than yourself, please do not write about yourself on Wikipedia. Should you do, and continue to violate our rules in the process, you will be blocked from Wikipedia.  Sandstein  05:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC)