User talk:Alauder

Iain Baxter[edit]

Unless you can provide a reliable source for a legal name change, you may not make such changes to the article. Yworo (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For further information about this, please read the material linked in this format warning:

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Iain Baxter, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Yworo (talk) 17:01, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your sourcing is not adequate. We may not make assumptions or inferences in articles about living people. You can also be blocked from editing if you continue to edit war over this. You need a reliable, third-party source that explicitly reports the legal name change. Otherwise we have no way to verify that he does not simply use a "pen name". Yworo (talk) 17:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Iain Baxter. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.

In particular, the three-revert rule states that:

Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Yworo (talk) 17:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, our MoS states that we use normal capitalization even when a person or organization styles themselves with all-caps orthography. Even if you find an adequate source, the correct rendition of the name will be "Iain Baxter&", not "IAIN BAXTER&". Yworo (talk) 17:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four halfwidth tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 17:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks . . .you should change the article heading to Iain Baxter& as well or redirect Alauder (talk) 17:30, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Adam Lauder[reply]

I'm working on it. Can't be moved until the redirect is deleted. Waiting on an admin to do that. Yworo (talk) 17:35, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, article is now moved to Iain Baxter&. Yworo (talk) 18:35, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, can you provide a source for how this name is to be pronounced? Is the "&" silent or should the name be pronounced "Baxterand"? Yworo (talk) 18:38, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all these changes ; yes, it is pronounced Iain Baxter AND ... not Iain Baxter ampersand ; the closest thing to a reliable source is the artist explaining that he is also known as "the &Man" (pronounced ANDman) <http://archives.library.yorku.ca/iain_baxterand_raisonne/items/show/360> ; he also discusses his addition of AND to his own name here <http://archives.library.yorku.ca/iain_baxterand_raisonne/items/show/1754> and here <http://archives.library.yorku.ca/iain_baxterand_raisonne/admin/items/show/id/1785> Alauder (talk) 19:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)Adam Lauder[reply]