Mangodebango

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Conflict of interest

Hello, Mangodebango. I am posting this message in response to your email. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship or are employed by the subject of the Wikipedia article Sean Combs, you have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:43, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Mangodebango, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Sean Combs have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 00:26, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Your email

Hi Mangodebango. I have received your email and will be responding to most of your questions on the article talk page so that other interested editors can comment if they like. I am not interested in communicating with you via email, because that way other editors don't have a chance to participate. I am not the "administrator in charge of the page"; Wikipedia does not have such a thing. I am merely one of Wikipedia editors who have edited the page. I will answer one of the questions here: The material that I found was identical to the PBS article had to be removed as it's a copyright violation for you to copy it here. The fact that the same prose might be present at combsenterprises.com or is an official biography prepared by Combs' PR team is immaterial as well, as it's copyright material. You cannot post copyright material on Wikipedia even if you are the copyright holder or have the copyright holder's permission, unless special licensing permissions are in place. That is because Wikipedia aims to be freely distributable and copyable by anyone, and all content must have the appropriate documentation in place before that can happen. This is done to protect the legal rights of copyright holders. Please see Wikipedia:donating copyrighted materials which explains how it works.

For reasoning behind each edit to the page, you can check the edit summary. All edit summaries are visible by checking the page history. The page history is visible here. Please have a look at Talk:Sean Combs for more details as to the reasoning behind each individual edit. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:06, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Dia Simms

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A tag has been placed on Dia Simms requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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July 2017

Your addition to Dia Simms has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 11:34, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Russian interference

With regard to your most recent comment on Talk:Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections [1], "What a garbage & pithy response." - "If the issues on this page aren't handled objectively, I will petition to either have the entire page removed or relevant sections that contain the errors highlighted." - See WP:INTIMIDATION Please assume good faith in your dealings with other editors. Assume that they are here to improve rather than harm Wikipedia. DN (talk) 05:23, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

DS notice

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

August 2017

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. You have been previously warned that this is against policy, but have persisted. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:11, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I have blocked your account, because in spite of repeated warnings, you continued to add copyright material to this wiki in violation of our copyright policy and copyright law. You cannot resume editing until you provide a clear statement that demonstrates that you have read and understand our copyright policy and intend to follow it in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:16, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Mangodebango (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I have read and understand Wikipedia's copyright policy and intend to follow it in the future. If you could unblock my editing access it would be much appreciated.

Even after reading through the policy, I'm still a little unclear as to how exactly I should copy or relay facts taken from online news sources? Do I need to change the wording and phrasing fairly significantly?

Regarding a previous message from you above for a breach of content from CombsEnterprises.com, what if I was able to have that company release the copyright of the text of the pages of their bio of Sean Combs under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence? Would that satisfy Wikipedia's copyright policy or would there still be a breach as it is WP:PRIMARY ? --- Mangodebango (talk) 20:15, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Even after reading through the policy, I'm still a little unclear as to how exactly I should copy or relay facts taken from online news sources? Do I need to change the wording and phrasing fairly significantly? That you have to ask this question indicates to me that you have not understood the policy. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

This blocked user is asking that his block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

Mangodebango (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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UTRS appeal #18954 was submitted on Aug 10, 2017 07:14:51. This review is now closed.

--UTRSBot (talk) 07:14, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

April 2018

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Mangodebango (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

It has been over 8 months since my Wikipedia account was blocked for copyright violations. In that time, I have read, familiarized myself with and now completely understand Wikipedia's copyright policy and copyright law. I intend to follow these guidelines in all editing activity in the future. If my editing access could be unblocked, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Mangodebango (talk) 08:55, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have unblocked your account, because you have stated you understand the copyright policy and have made a commitment to not add any more copyvio. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Please explain how exactly your edits that got you blocked were incorrect, and also answer the question pointed out to you in your declined unblock request above, so we know that you actually do understand the policy. 331dot (talk) 08:24, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi 331dot, the edits that I made last August were incorrect as they were too closely worded and lifted from a copyrighted reference source. Ultimately, the information should have been rewritten in my own words, and any direct quotations if they were needed could have been placed in double quotation marks. So in answering the question pointed out to me in my declined block request, I shouldn't be copying anything at all unless its short quotes in quotation marks and put all information written into my own words and structure. Mangodebango (talk) 08:55, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

I'd like to hear from Diannaa and Yunshui before making a decision here. 331dot (talk) 09:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

I am okay with unblocking based on this statement. Awaiting comment from Yunshui. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 12:09, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm still a teensy bit concerned that this doesn't really demonstrate an understanding of copyright policy. That said, a simple "no copying from anywhere" approach, which seems to be what's being proposed, would avoid future problems. No objection from me. Yunshui ^雲_水 14:45, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Mangodebango, I am unblocking your account based on your statement that you now understand and will follow our copyright policy. I will be watching your contributions and will re-block you if there's any further copyright violations. Please also note that on articles where you have a conflict of interest or are being paid to edit, it is strongly recommended that you make suggestions on the article talk page rather than editing the article yourself. The {{request edit}} template is available for this purpose. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:01, 22 April 2018 (UTC)