Talk:Geeta Novotny

In reply to editors modifications of this page
In reply to a "other" (as suggested by Michael Bednarek, not random -- other) users modifications to this page
 * Publishing biographies can be a hard task to-do and I understand that. I may be a little rusty at authoring an article like this but I do understand the rules and what is required for pages like this one. I plan on removing the tiny links and inter-wiki links that do not relate to this article. I also plan on revising the usage of the subject's name through-out the article. There is a Talk Page, and as hard as I have worked on this article, I really wish that the recent modifications were discussed here before just making them. Help with the article and collaboration is appreciated but I have combed over this article 100 times. Discussion is open. (Especially to any moderator or another editor who is nice and understanding and wants to make this article work.) simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 02:58, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup

 * Copied from 

Before moving this article into the mainspace, please start the cleanup by removing the massive amount of links to disambigution pages (classical?) and removing trivial links (father?); I recommend to read Your first article, and more specifically, Manual of Style (linking), Manual of Style (biographies) and Citing sources.

You should immediatley remove the interwiki links; I checked four and none did have an article on Novotny. The categorisation as Category:American tenors, caused by the use next to "Christopher Campbell", is wrong. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks buddy for getting this over here. As it is important to keep all documentation when moving an article. simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 18:11, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration
This page was not ready to be moved into article space as none of the concerns above had been addressed. If you truly welcome contributions by other editors you would not revert constructive edits which try to make this article compliant with established Wikipedia guidelines; calling them "random editors" is uncalled for. Those interwiki links to non-existing pages have to be removed immediately, as do the gazillion of links to trivial terms. Referring to the subject by first name is a guaranteed way of attracting banners like Template:POV, Template:Advert, Template:Fanpov. In addition to the guidelines mentioned above, you might also familiarise yourself with WP:OWN.

PS: Don't ever edit other editors' contributions to talk pages, as you did. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You need to be more careful when editing article talk pages; my spelling. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 22:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)


 * This all sounds good to me. Thanks for the suggestions. I am more than welcome to other editor's contributions. What's really funny about what you typed is the fact that I really didn't mean to come off that way. But that's how you took it and I am fine with that. 'Random Editors' was me not having the time to actually look at who made the changes. Thanks for all of the suggestions and changes. Appreciated. simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 18:09, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Revisions for May
Within the next day or two, I will be making modifications to this article such as removing inter-wiki links and revising how the biography was written such as using the subject's first name as many times as I initially did. (Thanks for everyone's patience, it's been awhile since I have written a full article.). There have been a few editors who have actually reviewed this document with me and I appreciate their help. You know who you are. Those changes will be published soon. Josh Canfield &#124; Userpage 18:17, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Added new Notable press articles with references to websites. Other minor revisions were made. There was a lot of information that I noticed is inconsistent with other musician's Wikipedia articles such as how the Infobox appears and capitalization too. Interesting. Wikipedia really has changed over the last few years since I was editing articles. (I hate to admit this, but people are less friendly on Wikipedia now a days. That's too bad folks -- it's about collaboration and presenting correct and accurate information. That would be why I am here and occasionally editing. I still love Wikipedia and their standards, there are just a few people who could ease up which would actually make collaborating with them easier.) simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 06:44, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Notable press: I checked the Huffington Post article you added today and it fails in my opinion the criteria for a reliable source (it's a blog) and for notability — Novotny is not the subject of the article and only mentioned en passant in an image caption; I think it should be removed. Similarly for the whole section "Columns for the Indian American Magazine": it's an utterly non-notable magazine, and a list of Novotny's articles articles there is unencyclopedic; see WP:NOT.
 * The preference of the WikiProject Classical music is not to have infoboxes at all.
 * Which aspects of capitalisation in this article do you want to change?
 * Is your section in italics about the lack of people's friendliness a quote or your own conclusion? If the latter, citing examples might clear this up. As for collaboration, your signature, the first part of which leads to a non-existing page, is not exactly helpful. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, well I can remove that citation. This is a talk page, in which I was doing. I feel that every single thing I have said, you immediatley come after me for it. I guess we just got off on the wrong foot (as I mention below). Thanks for your helpful reply. Thanks. simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 22:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

References and Citations
After a good solid week of looking for citations and references for this article, I was able to come up with about 15-20 citations. I will plan on publishing them as soon as I possibly can. I feel that this article, of course not my first -- but my first in many years, has turned out to be a very informative article. I have had multiple people compliment the article (which of course is in collaboration with a few other editors). I will try to get those citations from publications that I was able to obtain up shortly. Josh Canfield &#124; Userpage 06:59, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * You keep referring to your past work; care to give some pointers to articles you've been involved with? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow. So, a few years back, I was involved in collaboration on multiple articles related to HTML, CSS and W3C and a few business pages of interest to me. That was in the past, the rules have changed a little bit, but not much. (The password on my old account doesn't work, which is unfortunate.) Our conversations have been very interesting to me -- I am here to collaborate. I think you and I got off on the wrong foot. I guess sometimes I may come off as direct, and I do apologize for that. I am going to keep working on this article here and there and of course any suggestions or revisions made by other editors is welcome. I have read the Wikipedia article guidelines and related pages enough to recite them. What's fun about all of this, is I really am here just to make Wikipedia better. The more people that work together and the more people that can help create quality content on Wikipedia, the better. I have a good amount of web developer and designer friends who have worked on Wikipedia articles to contribute to the community and Wikipedia -- and most of them have said they have stopped because a lot of the users are either rude or just impossible to work with. That doesn't need to be the case here, I made a few modifications that obviously you didn't like, and again I apologize for that. I am going to keep my head up and keep contributing and go from there. I guess I will leave it at that. simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 22:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Boy this extended conversation is actually bothering me. I would like to keep this on point of the subject of the article from here on out. I don't really have time to keep going back and forth as I am sure you don't either. I apologized to you and appreciate your help on this very large article I took time to write. (I have about 5 more in different areas of interest coming soon -- of course to the Wikipedia guidelines). Let's get along and just make this article work and to specifications. Thanks simplycreative &#124; Talk Page 23:13, 15 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simplycreative (talk • contribs)