Thegirlwiththediamondearring

Hi there!

Joseph Ducreux (French) - Self-Portrait, Yawning - Google Art Project

It's me LisaGiocondo! Just checking in, as I can see on our Art and Law Dashboard you may be a bit behind with the Wikipedia editing this term. If so, I'd encourage you to come to the upcoming Edit-a-thons and especially the seminar next week. This will give you a better idea of how to plan and strategize going forward so you have plenty to discuss in your Report.

Our Dashboard has lots of suggestions for how to get started with some really useful training. You can find more guidance and ideas on our Wikipedia ExeArtLaw2021 project page.

Some other pages that you might find helpful include:

• Introduction
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• How to write a great article
• Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

Good luck with your editing and I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian! LisaGiocondo (talk) 18:41, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

April 2021

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Georgia O'Keeffe has been reverted.
Your edit here to Georgia O'Keeffe 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 () is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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) 16:33, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Thegirlwiththediamondearring! Your additions to Margaret Keane‎ 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 either 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:54, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Just to clarify a bit: it's not OK to copy a non-free source text and then change a few words around, as you did for example at Sonia Delaunay (I've removed that too). Everything you write here must be entirely in your own words, and should be supported by independent reliable sources (which will not normally include commercial art galleries, as those have a vested interest in selling the work of the people they "represent"). It seems that you are a student. Through your institution you should have access to resources such as oxfordartonline.com, which has reliable information on major artists; JSTOR is useful too. Good luck! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)