MarkWinslowPotter19291995

Request for subject page and account deletion

Monday, September 26, 2016

As I am Mrs. Mark Winslow Potter, the owner and manager and sole heir to my late husband’s writings, records, documents and images, I request that the “Mark_Winslow_ Potter” page, and all supporting pages, and all images of my husband’s work including those I uploaded or tried to upload to WP this month ... be deleted in their entirety.

I tried to answer Wikipedia’s appeal to add facts, substantive links, detailed citations and images to Wikipedia’s subject page entitled “Mark_Winslow_Potter” (Birth: 1929; Death: 1995). My effort to improve the above subject page -- created by someone else nearly a decade ago -- clearly has been a troubling failure to/for me.

The editing process was too difficult, Wikipedians’ feedback too generic, and WP editors’ relative disinterest and lack of knowledge in the subject category (a broad WP category encompassing many, many 20th Century American Painters) was too great.

I did offer content from verifiable sources and family records, including 4 (non-free) images for use on Wikipedia’s “Mark_Winslow_Potter” page: 1. Before Nightfall at Augusta’s 2. Seth Fishing 3. Barn Interior #1 4. Photo portrait of Mark Winslow Potter (1929-1995), taken circa 1993.

I was and remain the sole copyright holder to these (and almost all other) images of Mark Winslow Potter paintings.

To restate: I would ask sysops administrators to move to permanently delete this account -- MarkWinslowPotter19291995 -- from WP's permitted accounts. With good intentions I sought to improve the accuracy and appeal of the above subject page created by someone else in my deceased husband’s name. But the page neither serves him, the facts, or Wikipedia.

Mrs. Mark W. Potter

As you were the only substantive contributor to the Mark Winslow Potter article, I deleted it earlier today per your request. That is the only current contribution you have on the English Wikipedia, other than a sandbox page and a message on my user talk page.

There is a procedure, [Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing]], where you can request your account to be renamed so it does not so obviously appear in the record. This request cannot be handled by administrators; you may want to email stewards@wikimedia.org for assistance. Be advised your email will be logged. (Accounts cannot be outright deleted. The courtesy vanishing process is the closest thing we have to that request.) —C.Fred (talk) 17:41, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, MarkWinslowPotter19291995, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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).

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
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• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 19:58, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, MarkWinslowPotter19291995. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Mark Winslow Potter, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the 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 take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 16:46, 18 September 2016 (UTC)