BLS93

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Hello, BLS93, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Lamar Advertising Company, which 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.

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July 2014

Your addition to Lamar Advertising Company has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without 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 text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions 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. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 15:40, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lamar Advertising (July 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time.
Please read the comments left by the reviewer on your submission. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Draft:Lamar Advertising.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello! BLS93, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Edits at Lamar Advertising Company

Can you please not try and brute-force your additions into Lamar Advertising Company?

Your additions are totally uncited, written in a promotional tone, and while the history stuff is great (but uncited) a lot of the rest appears to be promoting the company. If you want to contribute to the article you must follow the rules of WP:Neutrality and WP:Sourcing. Repeatedly pasting in content you've been told is inappropriate is just going to get your account locked and the article edit-protected.

Seriously, it can't be that hard to just go to Google Books, find some facts about the company's history, and footnote them into the article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:29, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: User:BLS93/sandbox (July 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! The submission has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

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~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:13, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Please read and understand the messages that both me and other editors have left you above before editing. You cannot copy-and-paste copyrighted materials into Wikipedia; that constitutes a copyright violation, and we take those seriously. Repeatedly adding copyrighted and promotional materials is grounds for a block. Thank you. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 17:15, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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Draft:Lamar Advertising concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Lamar Advertising, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:41, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Lamar Advertising

Hello BLS93. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Lamar Advertising".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by one of two methods (don't do both): 1) follow the instructions at WP:REFUND/G13, or 2) copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Draft:Lamar Advertising}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, and click "Save page". An administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 14:00, 10 February 2015 (UTC)