User talk:FloridaRob71

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Hello, FloridaRob71, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Sarasota, Florida, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Magnolia677 (talk) 21:30, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thanks for the welcome!

I don't know why someone reported the updates I made to the Sarasota page as being promotional or advertising, because nothing I added was an advertisement or promotion.

"The orchestra hosts roughly 20 concert events each year, ranging from traditional celebrations of renowned composers like Brahms and Beethoven to casual concerts featuring orchestral presentations of popular music and themed concerts that celebrate everything from film scores to holiday themes."

That's just an accurate accounting of what the orchestra does.

"The orchestra also holds a three-week ''Sarasota Music Festival'' that is recognized internationally and attracts renowned teachers and promising students of chamber music."

That's actually less "advertisey" than what was previously there.

"In terms of educational outreach, the Sarasota Orchestra maintains a Youth Orchestra and hosts the Young Person's Concerts every year for up to 10,000 students, as well as offering summer camps."

Also simply an accurate accounting.

None of the removed writing is untrue or written as an advertisement. Nothing about it says that the quality is good or anything like that. It's a purely factual account of what the Sarasota Orchestra does in the community.

So much of the arts section of the Sarasota page is outdated or anemic, and I'm going to contribute what I can to fixing that. When I first checked, the page still listed theaters that have been closed for years and messed up the name of another. And it's absurd that people are trying to stop me from creating a "Fine Arts" section under the "Visual Arts" section, when galleries and fine art are a huge part of the Sarasota art scene.

And this: "Sarasota and the Cultural Coast are home to fine art, film-making, and decorative arts. Fine art, fine art galleries, artist collectives, film-making, and many decorative arts are practiced in Sarasota and Cultural Coast." That's just bad writing and there's no reason that I should not be able to contribute to Wikipedia by making it more eloquent and accurate.

So no, no advertising here. Just someone who knows a lot about Sarasota and has noted that the Wikipedia page is markedly deficient.

Thank you. FloridaRob71 (talk) 17:46, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]