Mdk71910

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I saw that you edited or created Folk Alliance International, and I noticed that your username, "Folkalliance", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a change of username, by completing this form, that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 21:39, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for changing your name, but your new name is not much of an improvement, as I presume any person can be an intern with the Folk Alliance. Names cannot be that of a position, they must identify you as an individual user. If you want to indicate that you are an intern with the Folk Alliance, please format your name as described above, such as "YourName at FolkAlliance" or something similar. You don't have to use your real name, but the name must indicate that you and only you are using it. Please also review the conflict of interest policy, as generally one should not directly edit in areas where they have a COI. If you have any questions, please post them here. 331dot (talk) 22:40, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I would add that if you are a paid intern, you are required by Wikipedia's Terms of Use to clearly declare that somewhere, either on this page, article talk pages, or in edit summaries of any edits you make. 331dot (talk) 22:43, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Folk Alliance International

The editing of Folk Alliance International is rife with problems. I removed a blatant copyright violation — you cannot simply copy material from other sites it should generally be written in your own words.

Mission statements are rarely acceptable in articles, see Wikipedia:Avoid mission statements

The article contains Wikipedia:Embedded citations which should be avoided.

If you are associated with the organization you should read:Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest.

Sorry I'm not being more welcoming but it's a mass of problems and needs a lot of work.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:52, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Please visit wp:teahouse; editors there may be able to help.--S Philbrick(Talk) 01:53, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I'm quite new to Wikipedia editing, so any violation of wiki guidelines have been entirely unintentional! I've done a bit more research after reading your post, and from my understanding it would be best to suggest edits through the article's talk page? Mdk71910 (talk) 17:09, 12 August 2016 (UTC)User:Mdk71910

Mdk71910, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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