User talk:Nick at Asia Pacific Greens Federation

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September 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Asia Pacific Greens Federation has been reverted.
Your edit here to Asia Pacific Greens Federation was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/ØØ²Ø¨-Ø§ÙØ·Ø¨ÙØ¹Ù-Ø§ÙØ¯ÙÙÙØ±Ø§Ø·Ù-Ø§ÙØ§Ø±Ø¯ÙÙ-368888986611351/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Asia Pacific Greens Federation Secretary, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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16:03, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Asia Pacific Greens Federation Secretary. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Asia Pacific Greens Federation, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Paisarepa 03:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

September 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text

{{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}

at the bottom of your talk page. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names.

Thank you. Glen (talk) 18:40, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please note you can choose a username that represents yourself as an individual, such as Jill at Asia Pacific Greens Federation however your position isn't acceptable per our username policy. Thanks. Glen (talk) 18:43, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You do not have to use your real name either, it just cannot be a user name that suggests that the account is shared or that it is is the account for a position that may be filled by someone else in the future. Meters (talk) 20:39, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Nick at Asia Pacific Greens Federation (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

Nick at Asia Pacific Greens Federation (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Thanks very much for the useful guidance, Glen and Meters. I hope this username change request satisfies the guidelines, as you have mentioned. I have checked and this new username is available. Thanks! Asia Pacific Greens Federation Secretary (talk) 04:23, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have changed your username and will remove the block. Please review the conflict of interest and paid editing policies.(I see you declared a COI but you will need to make the stricter paid editing declaration) If you intend to make further edits related to your organization or its field, you will need to make them as formal edit requests(click for instructions) on article talk pages. To create new articles, please use Articles for Creation. 331dot (talk) 08:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Nick at Asia Pacific Greens Federation, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Asia Pacific Greens Federation have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. All other images must be made available under a free and open license that allows commercial and derivative reuse to be used on Wikipedia.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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 must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also 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) 10:28, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]