User talk:Lindsayhartman

March 2013[edit]

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Hello, Lindsayhartman, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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 ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm 99.137.210.226. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 07:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's pretty evident that you are also using the 68.175.97.101 account, perhaps in order to evade further warnings and a block. Please consider this a final warning. I'll warn the IP likewise. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 20:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why my edits aren't allowed. I am a fan of Morgan James, yes, but nothing I have written has been an opinion. Please advise. Lindsayhartman (talk) 20:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Really?....after all the warnings, through which you made no attempt to converse, nor used the edit summary for any of your edits. You and your IP came to Wikipedia for one reason, to promote an individual. The resulting article was unencyclopedic in tone, and had no reliable sources, per WP:RELIABLE, until I found many to support the Into the Woods business, which you chose to delete. My advice is to read the website's guidelines, so that if you choose to contribute you can do so in a constructive manner...didn't mean to sound schoolmarmish, but that's where we're at. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 20:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to read the discussion at this noticeboard [1]. Feel free to contribute your thoughts there, as well as at the article talk page [2]. Thank you, 99.137.210.226 (talk) 20:46, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry. I honestly wasn't aware that I could respond to the messages and warnings. I was making updates/ adding citations as I thought were needed and being asked for at the top of the article. If I understand correctly, the Into the Woods line must remain on the page, as this is what makes her notable? Thanks for your info, and again, I am sorry.

Okay. At the moment it's what she's most well known for. A person's website, IMDB (and presumably the theater equivalent) are not considered reliable sources, and are not usually acceptable as references in an article. Like other editors who looked, I couldn't find many reliable sources to support notability, per WP:NOTABILITY, WP:ENT and WP:NMG. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 23:25, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Like other editors who looked, I couldn't find many reliable sources to support notability": music is about listening, not looking, but you could always try Googling "Morgan James". There are at present more than half a million hits. Or try combining her name with that of one of her albums. There are more than 100k hits. Frankly, if you like mathematics or macramé better than female vocalists, why don't you focus on that instead? You wouldn't by any chance be identical with the individual who found fault with another Wikipedia contributor for characterising Mary Chapin Carpenter as "highly succesful"? In any case, all you have achieved here is to scare away yet another potential or aspiring Wikipedian. The Wikipedia/Mediawiki community has spent a lot of time and effort developing a new WYSIWIG editor in the hope of attracting or retaining more active contributors, but I feel convinced much the most serious problem the dictionary has in this respect is the lack of tact and empathy of its most overzealous custodians.

Henryfunk (talk) 06:17, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]