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Your submission at Articles for creation: Igor Kopystiansky (April 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Jamiebuba was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Jamiebuba (talk) 13:11, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Biographer2025! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering 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! Jamiebuba (talk) 13:11, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people)." is in the bibliography which is a part of the article: * "Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky". The Lithuanian National Museum of Art. 2023. Foreword: Arūnas Gelūnas. Texts by Michel Gauthier, John G. Hanhardt. Quotations from texts about Kopystiansky’s by Kai-Uwe Hemken, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Anthony Spira, Adam D. Weinberg.(Lithuanian, English, French) ISBN 9786094261824

‘'Kopystiansky: Double Fiction/Fiction Double”. Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Musée d"Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne. 2010. Texts by John G. Hanhardt, Philippe-Alain Michaud. Les Presses du Réel. ISBN 9782840663744
"Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky." Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, 2007. Texts by Timo Valjakka, Anthony Spira, Barry Schwabsky, (English, Finnish, Swedish), EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki. ISBN 9789525509007
“Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky: The Day before Tomorrow”. Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel and Fine Arts Centre of UMass, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2005. With introduction by René Block and Loretta Yarlow and texts by Adam D. Weinberg, Barry Schwabsky, Andreas Bee, Anthony Bond, Kai-Uwe Hemken. (English and German), ISBN 9780929597195
“Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky: Tracking Shot.” With texts by Barry Schwabsky, Andreas Bee, Anthony Bond. (English and Spanish), Distrito4, 2004. Madrid, Spain ISBN 9788493342265
“Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky: Dialog,” Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the IFA Galerie Berlin, 1998. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart/Berlin.
“Igor Kopystiansky: Exhibition of Paintings.” 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, 1997. ISBN 9783927869127
“Igor Kopystiansky: The Museum.” Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. 1994.
“Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky” Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 1991. DAAD. Curator René Block. Texts by Dan Cameron, Joachim Sartorius, Christine Tacke. ISBN 9783893570317

Ignoring these reliable independent sources is not justified.

Art works by the subject, artist Igor Kopystiansky are represented at sites of major museums which links are provided in the article: MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, etc.

The rejection is baseless and is done without checking sources provided. We request a review of such unjustified decision which does look like a censorship. Biographer2025 (talk) 13:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There an article about the subject in a German Wikipedia:https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Igor_Kopystiansky&stable=1

There is no reason to prevent a publication of an article about this subject in an English Wikipedia Biographer2025 (talk) 13:48, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Igor Kopystiansky has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Igor Kopystiansky. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 08:32, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 2025

Hello Biographer2025. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Biographer2025. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Biographer2025|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. 331dot (talk) 09:20, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

331dot, your assumption that I "was paid" for an article about Igor Kopystiansky is baseless. Any assumption has to be proven by facts. Please provide a proof or please remove any libelous notes which you posted in the reference to the biographical article about Svetlana Kopystiansky. Support you claim by quotations from edits which might be result of "paid" job. Biographer2025 (talk) 14:24, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I said below, your username is "Biographer", which suggests that is your profession or at least that you know Igor or Svetlana Kopystiansky. Your strong personal investment in this topic- the only topic you have contributed about- also suggests that you didn't pick him at random to edit about. You also created a lentghy draft only 17 minutes after creating your account(with another edit only 4 minutes before). 331dot (talk) 14:43, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

331dot, there are no restrictions to choose any usernames to my knowledge and the one I choose was just random and meaningless. If I would be a professional "biographer" paid for a job, I would do everything to cover that and not to expose it so openly with the "name". The text was prepared a long time ago and the fact that I haven't provided any articles before does not mean anything. What is crucial is that both articles, for Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky do not contain any "evaluations" which can be personal, favorable or look like promotion: just quotations from existing texts by respected American art professionals, links to respected art institutions. For that reason I ask to remove your assumption from the header of Svetlana Kopystiansky as not relevant. Thank you in advance. Biographer2025 (talk) 15:02, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The things that I mention are red flags that suggest paid editing- however, if you're not, okay. 331dot (talk) 15:05, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Igor Kopystiansky (April 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

unacceptable tone, poorly referenced and undisclosed COI.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Theroadislong (talk) 09:33, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

paid editing again

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Biographer2025, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Biographer2025|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 09:37, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do confirm again, that I have absolutely no financial interest in publishing of an article about Igor Kopystiansky and making small edits in an article about Svetlana Kopystiansky which was initiated by the curator of American Art Museum as it is stated at the museum's site. Please trust my word also because there is nothing what can be seen in any of these articles as an attempt of the promotion or any attempt of an advertising. Biographer2025 (talk) 15:24, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Igor Kopystiansky has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Igor Kopystiansky. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 09:39, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

and again...

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. Theroadislong (talk) 11:01, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do confirm that there is no conflict of interest and I have not been paid for writing of this article Biographer2025 (talk) 11:11, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your username is "Biographer" which suggests that is your profession, or at least that you know the person you're writing about. 331dot (talk) 12:31, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Igor Kopystiansky has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Igor Kopystiansky. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 11:10, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Svetlana Kopystiiansky collaborated with Igor Kopystiansky on their works in media of film and video, their publications were produced in collaborations and for that reason it is right to use the same descriptions of the same works in both articles. Thank you! Biographer2025 (talk) 11:37, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No...NOT when you copy and paste content without attribution. Theroadislong (talk) 11:53, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky have individual works which have been described individually and collaborative works. In the reference to collaborative works are texts by art historians, like John Hanhardt, who did write about artists as a team. For that reason what does matter is his quotation, which is attributed correctly, a technical description of an art work is not a quotation, it is just a technical description. Hope you agree. Biographer2025 (talk) 12:59, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Biographer2025 (talk) 14:46, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Igor Kopystiansky has been accepted

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Theroadislong (talk) 14:40, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since you seem unwilling to put the work in, I have spent sometime copyediting and adding correctly formatted references for you. Theroadislong (talk) 14:43, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Biographer2025 (talk) 14:53, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April 2025

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Igor Kopystiansky, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it.

The *Show preview* button is right next to the *Publish changes* button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 14:15, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This is the first article I initiated. Actually I intended to publish the image in the box under the name Biographer2025 (talk) 14:24, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Svetlana Kopystiansky, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and to see how to add references to an article. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 20:18, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The reliable sources in respect to Awards are:

1990 Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD

https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/bkp-award-fellows/page/125/?posts_per_page18=&order_by=artist_year&nameLike=kopystiansky&language=en&type=award_fellow&posts_per_page=18&fellows_page=1

2000 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

https://www.adk.de/en/academy/sections/visual-arts/kaethe-kollwitz-prize/laureates/kopystiansky-svetlana_en/index.htm Biographer2025 (talk) 06:29, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kopystiansky is not mentioned in the link [1] and the award is not notable? Theroadislong (talk) 06:56, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1990 Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD

https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/bkp-award-fellows/page/125/?posts_per_page18=&order_by=artist_year&nameLike=kopystiansky&language=en&type=award_fellow&posts_per_page=18&fellows_page=1

Names of Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky (with “i” instead of “y” in the last name) is published in the list produced by the DAAD which is reproduced at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/7610741886/in/album-72157709515509811

Invitation letters received by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky in New York are reproduced at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/22527548134/in/album-72157709515509811 Biographer2025 (talk) 09:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Flickr photographs are not legitimate sources and it is not a notable award. Theroadislong (talk) 10:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Svetlana Kopystiansky' 2000 Käthe Kollwitz Prize is confirmed at the site of the Art Academy Berlin: 2000 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

https://www.adk.de/en/academy/sections/visual-arts/kaethe-kollwitz-prize/laureates/kopystiansky-svetlana_en/index.htm Biographer2025 (talk) 10:09, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a confirmation about the DAAD residency in 1990 at the site of the DAAD

https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/bkp-award-fellows/page/125/?posts_per_page18=&order_by=artist_year&view=list&nameLike=Kopyst&language=en&type=award_fellow&posts_per_page=18&fellows_page=1 Biographer2025 (talk) 10:17, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

can send a screen shot with Kopystiansky's names as well Biographer2025 (talk) 10:18, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that one or more recent edit(s) you made did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

The edit summary field looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account, you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary), and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 10:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Biographer2025! I noticed that you recently made an edit at Svetlana Kopystiansky and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia: it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. WormEater13 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The edit I did was in my view a minor one as it did not change the meaning at all: the exhibition was credited properly. For that reason I ask to restore my edit. Thank you in advance. Biographer2025 (talk) 12:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Igor Kopystiansky, you may be blocked from editing. Please read WP:CIR your editing is disruptive because of your refusal to learn how we correctly reference material. Theroadislong (talk) 08:02, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your sourcing

PLEASE read WP:REFB and learn how to cite correctly your edits are becoming disruptive because of your lack of competence. Theroadislong (talk) 10:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have you found the name of Kopystiansky in the search at:

1990 Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD

https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/bkp-award-fellows/page/125/?posts_per_page18=&order_by=artist_year&nameLike=kopystiansky&language=en&type=award_fellow&posts_per_page=18&fellows_page=1

You removed the DAAD from the list of grants received by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky. Do you accept that there is a reliable proof? Biographer2025 (talk) 11:02, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot see it and your editing is becoming disruptive because of your inability to cite correctly and your lack of edit summaries. Theroadislong (talk) 11:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you put the name of Kopystiansky in the search you will find it.

Please restore the 2000 Käthe Kollwitz Prize of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

https://www.adk.de/en/academy/sections/visual-arts/kaethe-kollwitz-prize/laureates/kopystiansky-svetlana_en/index.htm

you removed. Biographer2025 (talk) 11:06, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the reference for you, in future PLEASE learn how to cite correctly it is of the utmost importance if you wish to carry on editing here. Theroadislong (talk) 11:15, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thank you. Biographer2025 (talk) 11:17, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You continue to cite incorrectly, will you PLEASE read WP:REFB! Theroadislong (talk) 13:46, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I would very appreciate if you could help to link remaining museums properly:

MUMOK Vienna, Austriad

https://www.mumok.at/en/search?tx_solr%5Bq%5D=Kopystianskywig Forum for International

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main;

https://collection.mmk.art/en/nc/werkdetailseite/?werk=1999%2F231

Frac Corsica, France;

https://www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/22757984879/in/album-72157709515509811/https://www.navigart.fr/fraccorse/artworks/authors/KOPYSTIANSKY%20Igor,%20KOPYSTIANSKY%20Svetlana%E2%86%B9KOPYSTIANSKY%20Igor,%20KOPYSTIANSKY%20Svetlana?page=1

Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland (Sve

https://zasoby.msl.org.pl/arts/show/0/0?mcollection_id=0&artist=Svetlana+Kopystiansky&text=&dating_start=&dating_end=&acq_date_start=&acq_date_end=&keywords=&themedshow_id=0&sort_type=tlana); Biographer2025 (talk) 13:50, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And would be grateful if you could help with:

Walker Art Center, Contemporary Art Museum, Minneapolis;

https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/igor-kopystiansky Biographer2025 (talk) 13:53, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

flickr.com cannot be used to source anything. You really need to work out how to cite sources yourself, virtually every edit you make on Wikipedia will require sourcing. Theroadislong (talk) 13:54, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please learn how to cite correctly!!!!!

PLEASE will you read WP:REFB and learn how to cite sources. Theroadislong (talk) 18:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

please correct the technical details of cites which I provided, Thank you in advance. Biographer2025 (talk) 08:04, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your refusal to cite correctly is becoming VERY disruptive. Theroadislong (talk) 08:05, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As your colleagues helped to correct technical details, we ask you as an editing professional to do the same with matters which have just technical meaning. Thank you in advance. I worked a lot to provide the right links. Biographer2025 (talk) 08:08, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore the position of the Tartu Art Museum with the link which you removed. This is a reliable and proven important professional fact which cannot be removed. Thank you in advance. Biographer2025 (talk) 08:13, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is your connection to Kopystiansky?

You are a single purpose account, what is your connection to Kopystiansky? Theroadislong (talk) 08:35, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that at certain point you removed the whole list of proven museum exhibitions and now removed the position of the Tartu Art Museum when you had to know that it is a proven and important professional information.

You also do not recognized a DAAD grant and removed it despite it is also a proven confirmed fact.

What is a reason of such personal approach? Could you please explain why instead of correcting minor technical matters you are removing the reliable and proven professional information? Biographer2025 (talk) 08:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A "major contributor" to the article who initiated it and shaped the main content is the curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum who published this fact at the site of the museum. Biographer2025 (talk) 10:32, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You didn't answer the question posed. 331dot (talk) 10:32, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did answer and all facts are proven Biographer2025 (talk) 10:34, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You took this photograph [2] please explain your connection to the subject as requested. Theroadislong (talk) 11:51, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So either you took the photo as claimed, and have a connection to him, or you uploaded it inappropriately by incorrectly claiming you took it and own the copyright to it, putting this entire project in legal jeopardy. Which is it? 331dot (talk) 12:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The photograph is from the archive by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky held in their Archive at the Kandinsky Library https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/archive/W35Tn9e

and is free from copyrights as it was published in the book:

"Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky". The Lithuanian National Museum of Art. 2023. Foreword: Arūnas Gelūnas. Texts by Michel Gauthier, John G. Hanhardt. Quotations from texts about Kopystiansky's by Kai-Uwe Hemken, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Anthony Spira, Adam D. Weinberg.(Lithuanian, English, French) ISBN 9786094261824

on p. 118.

Photographer unknown Biographer2025 (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

being published in a book or photographer unknown does NOT mean it is free from copyright! Theroadislong (talk) 13:12, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A photograph with an author unknown has to be exempt from copyrights as no author can be mentioned. The photograph is in the archive at the Kandinsky library with other materials. Biographer2025 (talk) 13:21, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright does not disappear simply because the owner cannot be found….see [3]. Theroadislong (talk) 13:26, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The image has been removed because I do not wish to continue this meaningless discussion. If anybody will claim copyrights related to Igor Kopystiansky, please contact Kandinsky Library. Materials from Kopystiansky's holdings are available to professional researches exclusively on a special request. Biographer2025 (talk) 14:05, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussing abuse of copyright is NOT "meaningless discussion" and you have yet to disclose what your connection is? Theroadislong (talk) 14:07, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No abuse of any copyrights took place and I have to ask to refrain from unfunded accusations. I have professional knowledge about the art of Igor Kopystiansky and an access to artist' archive. Biographer2025 (talk) 14:17, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then you have a clear conflict of interest which you need to disclose on your user page ASAP. Theroadislong (talk) 14:19, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Kandinsky Library of the Centre Pompidou in Paris is available for professional researchers and an access to funds, obtaining of a knowledge from these funds, a study of materials cannot be defined as a "conflict of interests" with anybody. For that reason all the information which I edited is correct, reliable, based exclusively on facts and claims of the opposite cannot be made without a proof.

You have to provide facts if you know the opposite Biographer2025 (talk) 14:31, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you request deletion of the image from Commons? Its copyright is not compatible with Wikipedia's. It's not up to us to chase down the copyright, it's up to you to show it has been explicitly given. 331dot (talk) 14:38, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you are a "professional researcher" then that means you are performing research as part of your job duties, meaning you are 100% a paid editor. 331dot (talk) 14:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I already did write: I was not paid for any edits of the article about Igor Kopystiansky at the English Wikipedia. To edit this article I was motivated exclusively with moral principles because as I believe at the English Wikipedia has to be available for the public a reliable and proven information about this internationally acclaimed artist, represented in more then 20 important American and European museum collections. Biographer2025 (talk) 16:58, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The question is not about you being paid it is about your connection to the subjects. Theroadislong (talk) 17:01, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is it forbidden to read books about Igor Kopystiansky and to receive an information about this artist ? Biographer2025 (talk) 17:02, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're either a professional researcher or not. Which is it? 331dot (talk) 17:21, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please point what precisely is not correct in a published information about Igor Kopystiansky?

As i see in the information about you, you were not involved in contemporary art. There is no such job as "professional researcher" within art world.

Nobody is paid for something like that. Biographer2025 (talk) 17:33, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So you were incorrect when you said "The Kandinsky Library of the Centre Pompidou in Paris is available for professional researchers"? 331dot (talk) 17:34, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To get an access to archives has to be filed a letter with an explanation who and for which purposes does wish to get an access to materials. A permission is not guaranteed. To work with unique materials does require professional knowledge. For such work nobody is paid, it is a privilege. Biographer2025 (talk) 17:45, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]