User talk:Mowwra

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June 2016

Your addition to Stephen Powers (artist) 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.

Text copy-pasted from http://home.manhattan.edu/~mark.pottinger/nyc_museums/brooklynmuseum.html and other sources.

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:40, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Dr.GregorySnyder.

It appears you have been creating sockpuppet accounts for several years, in order to copy press releases into articles, and add other promotional content about Stephen Powers and other Philadelphia artists.

Given your long experience, I think you are well aware that this is a violation of Wikipedia policy, and your use of multiple accounts is a tactic to obscure your identity and intentions. Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:25, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Dennis Bratland (talk) I work directly for the Artist Stephen Powers, as his Studio Manager. One of the projects that we are currently working on is updating his Wikipedia page. I have just made my Wiki account, and I have never done any "sockpuppeting" or used any copywrited material without permission.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowwra (talk • contribs) 19:32, 27 June 2016‎

Without debating (for the moment) whether or not the previous user accounts are connected with you, it's clear you do have a conflict of interest. It is important that you read the guidelines at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. While you are allowed to edit Wikipedia, you are not allowed to use Wikipedia for advertising and promotion. You must be transparent about your interests, and you must try to follow the same neutral point of view policy as every other editor.

Do you understand that phrases like "Powers was invited to embark on his most prestigious journey to date" are blatantly promotional? When I read your additions to the article, I can't tell the difference between them and a Stephen powers press release. Do you understand that a good encyclopedia is objective, not a collection of press releases? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:01, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]