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Happy editing! David Brooks (talk) 20:03, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

List of people in Woodstock, NY
I want to thank you for your attempts to add relevant people to List of people from Woodstock, New York, and explain the changes I'm making. First, you added some genuine personalities who were missing; I earlier added wikilinks that lead to their Wikipedia pages. Your most recent edit tried to add links, but you left out the closing brackets: thus you need to write Charles Mingus - bassist, bandleader to create a link to the Charles Mingus page: note the ]]. I've added those.

I don't see any evidence that Mingus has an association with Woodstock, though, as it's not mentioned in his article: strictly, there should be a footnote leading to some other documentation (web page, magazine etc) but I will note there are very few citations on that page to being with. See the warning at the top. So I'll take your word for it. Same comments for David Sanborn (I corrected his description to "saxophonist"). Also note the construction John Simon. The text before the | (called a "pipe") is the title of the article itself, but the text after the pipe is what you actually want to appear here.

Finally, there is an accepted guideline that people in lists like this should be notable. See WP:LISTPEOPLE for this guideline, which links to a more detailed definition of notability, especially WP:ANYBIO. The best rule of thumb for including someone in a list is that they have their own Wikipedia article, and Doug James has not. Now, if you feel that he meets the notability requirements - please look at them - then you can try to create a starter article for him, but be prepared to defend it. There is a group of editors who will challenge a new biography without good evidence of notability.

Finally, as I said above, please consider creating a user account. If you want to continue contributing to Wikipedia, it has several advantages that mount up over time. Happy editing! David Brooks (talk) 04:56, 14 August 2017 (UTC)