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I hope you can improve ventriloquism further. It needs help. Grandmasterka 07:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Jim Barber

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Jim Barber, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.hamnerbarber.com/castmembers.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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There's another problem here. If you wrote the copy for the hamnerbarber.com website, and then pretty much lifted that material for the Wikipedia article, then you have a conflict of interest because you are actively involved in promoting the subject of your article, and that is also a violation of Wikipedia policy. Basically, the article needs to be written (or re-written) by someone not tied to Barber himself, personally or professionally. That is so that the article can be objective in its presentation. Having said all that, I feel confident that Barber is notable enough by Wikipedia's notability standards to merit an article. I will try to rewrite the article over the next few days to help bring it in line with WP policies. (By the way, I caught Barber's act on David Letterman's Ventriloquists Week 2. He's very good!) Realkyhick 05:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Update: I went ahead and did the rewrite while it was fresh on my mind. I think this will take care of all problems. By the way, thanks for putting the GFDL license on the website to clear up any issues. I think we're good to go now. I hope to get to Branson to check out Barber's act someday. Realkyhick 06:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)