User talk:Marqueemarc

Welcome to Wikipedia! Among other things, you might want to take a look at WP:OWN. Provided edits are factual and sourced, any editor is free to edit any article at any time. Conversely, since your edits contradicted information already on a page, those edits have been reverted. —C.Fred (talk) 02:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Marqueemarc, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 02:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 2007[edit]

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Marcellas Reynolds. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 02:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Upon review, I have let two of your deletions stand. One was unsupported by any outside source, and the other was not really on topic. However, as far as your date of birth, I have restored that to agree to a published source, IMDB. Wikipedia articles should (ideally) be based on independent, reliable sources. Bizarre as it may sounds, what is published about you elsewhere trumps any claims you make about yourself.

Additionally, be advised that because you have a conflict of interest with this article, all of your edits will be scrutinized more than other editors' edits (and more than your edits at other topics other than Big Brother or other contestants). —C.Fred (talk) 14:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As was previously noted, you do not own your own article. It is subject to editing by other editors. Additionally, information must be backed up by a reliable source. The mere claim that you are Marcellas Reynolds does not verify that you are! If even CBS has the information wrong, it implies that either a) somebody gave them misinformation to begin with or b) your motives are not mere correction of fact. —C.Fred (talk) 04:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hi, there. 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 tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name 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 04:32, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BLP Noticeboard incident opened[edit]

I have started a report at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard to get additional expert help on this situation. It's at the bottom of that page. —C.Fred (talk) 04:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yu might also want to refer to here to document this problem and get a top-down review of the problem. - Arcayne (^{cast a spell}) 09:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Marcellas Reynolds article[edit]

The headshot is tricky. It has to be one that you hold rights to and that you are willing to release under GFDL or Creative Commons license or into the public domain. That means that this image is free to be used in any number of downstream usages, and you will lose control of how this image is used in the future. If you consent to that, it's relatively easy. Go to a page like Image:Marcellas Reynolds headshot.jpg and upload it there. Make sure to indicate that you own it (ideally, include when it was taken) and which license (GFDL, CC, public domain) it's under. Note that copyrighted images cannot be used in biographies of living people; the image must be under one of those three licenses, except for very limited situations. (The Big Brother screenshot is borderline; it probably will fail fair use if it's put under close scrutiny.) —C.Fred (talk) 05:22, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]