MentorMAD

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Welcome!

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Vladimír Székely. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, MentorMAD. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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. VQuakr (talk) 08:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kristinalaw, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

VQuakr (talk) 09:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Suggestion on how to declare COI

You could start User:MentorMAD and post something similar to what you wrote at User:Kristinalaw. VQuakr (talk) 16:39, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Follow up from SPI

I have closed the sockpuppetry investigation regarding your accounts since you have disclosed that you are operating both this account and the Kristinalaw account. Here's where we go from here.

First, you may not continue to use both accounts, because this violates our multiple accounts policy. Your situation is a little bit complicated, so bear with me, you have decisions to make affecting both of your accounts. You must choose one to use from now on, but:

• If you want to continue editing as Kristinalaw, then you really don't need to do anything.
• If you want to continue editing as MentorMAD, well, technically you can but you'll have to choose a different name. Our username policy forbids usernames which could appear to represent an organization or which imply shared use, and this account appears to be your employer's name. I am going to "soft-block" the account, which means that you can ask for the account to be renamed, and then it will be unblocked and you can continue using it. Another template will be posted here shortly with instructions.
• For technical reasons we cannot delete or merge accounts, but as long as you only use one account from now on you'll have no problems. We can block the account you're not going to use if you like, but you must make that request by logging into that account.

Regarding your internship, we have a policy on paid contributions, and although it might be a grey area, I am taking the view that you're receiving a benefit in exchange for your contributions in the form of completing the requirements of your internship. This is allowed, but you are required to disclose your conflict of interest (see the policy). You've partly done this as Kristinalaw but you must do so again if you continue to edit as MentorMAD. I also advise you to read our plain and simple conflict of interest guide.

If you have any other questions you can ask here or at the Help Desk and we'll do our best to help. Good luck! Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:36, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, MentorMAD, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. 

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

1. Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
3. 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. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:39, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Donald S. Miller

The article Donald S. Miller has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The claim of notability is based on the textbook which was found in AfD debate to be non-notable.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 10:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)