User talk:Binlied2

Welcome
Hello  and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.  ''Click here to reply to this message.''  ukexpat (talk) 17:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Hi!
I am one of the people who is working on the Wikipedia articles related to Jackie; I left a message on Twitter but found this in the edit history of her biographical article. You'll notice my nickname is identical (and I may ask further questions to you or Jackie there as well, but this is wa-ay over 140 characters). Of note, I was the first person on Jackie's article after the Youtube episode performance, and removed all those "no notability" tags; you'll notice that back in the August 11 history of the article before other people piled in. I also started Prelude to a Dream (an hour later) and the other day kicked off the Dream With Me article, and coincidentally on Jackie's birthday did some article cleanup. In other words, I've made Jackie's series of pages my first real project to put into Good Article status someday, and maybe even Featured Article status, which appears on the Wikipedia home page (it's my goal) and signifying the best articles on Wikipedia.

I saw your April 1 tweet under Jackie's Twitter profile (which obviously belongs to you due to age laws for that type of thing). I just wanted to get to you personally to let you know a little bit about how the encyclopedia works. When edits are made to the encyclopedia, especially in biographical articles, links must be provided to relevant sources. I'll use an example regarding this site's founder, Jimbo Wales. At one time, a source related to one of his children went missing. Of course Jimmy (his real name) has an article independently created by other people that has this information. Someone removed the no-longer-sourced information from the biographical article. I saw it brought up on his talk page and the humour was that his daughter "no longer existed". Obviously another source mentioning the daughter had to be found. Found it was, and the information was restored. That is how Wikipedia works, basically by consensus, not by what one editor specifically contributes. If Jackie is a soprano, per the info you spoke of correcting on the Twitter feed, a reliable source must be provided stating it or it can't be used.

On that note, I like the new picture you've added to the article since my last peek at it; it's not often we have someone involved with a notable person available to publish a picture like that, and I've researched it and see you've made it properly available. Good deal. =) I've already done the bit with the album cover for the new album on that article; it falls under free use guidelines even though Sony owns it, but its use anywhere else - even in the biographical article - can be questioned and removed.  In any case, if you need any help around Wikipedia, let me know and I'll do what I can to help.  Just be careful with your edits and make sure anything you add is sourced; I can help with that if you have any questions.

Meanwhile, if I may give a little advice: instead of redirecting your user page to Jackie's article, put something on your own userpage. It's your userpage, not her article, and I see that you originally created her page on your userpage causing the redirect to be placed. If you set up a userpage, you can Wikilink to her article from your user page ((that blue link is set up as her article, click Edit to see). On the userpage it might even be a good idea to note that you do have a potential conflict of interest with that article, because you are her mother (though I wouldn't put that on the userpage specifically).  Wikipedia takes conflict of interest very seriously; I've seen people affiliated with companies create promotional articles about products that get deleted very quickly because they are not encyclopedic material, and I've seen people in a band creating articles about their band which also get deleted because of non-notability (I commented on a talk page on that discussion), or simply due to a bad writing of the article from a non-third party view.  People will respect you coming up front with it, and it's better than having someone know about it (like me now) without your mentioning it. If you also want help creating a user page, let me know and I'll help you with it. And obviously, when I see sources of things to do with Jackie, I'm on top of it; feel free to point out sources for me and I can determine their relevancy too, better that way since you have the COI. I'm following on Twitter now too, so I may pick up information to search for from there too. (You and Howie Mandel are the first two people I'm following - watching for information on Howie's new show Mobbed).

Wish your daughter a belated happy birthday for me. I posted this on April 9, but I am guessing you didn't log into Wikipedia on the day of her birthday, so it'll be received late. If you reply, BTW, please create a new section with on my talk page and it'll create a little infobox notifying me to check over here for your reply. Also put a colon at the start of each paragraph of your reply, it indents the reply so it's easy to recognize your message separately. =) CycloneGU (talk) 02:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

September 2011
Please stop. If you continue to create malicious redirects, as you did with Jackie Evanchio, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 15:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Uh, what? First off, this user page belongs to Jackie Evancho's mother Lisa, so she wouldn't be posting malicious redirects. Secondly, Jackie Evanchio does not exist and never has; otherwise there would be a deletion log. Third, she hasn't edited since APRIL. Can you please explain what you're posting about here? CycloneGU (talk) 23:28, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This user redirected from her user page to Jackie Evancho and this name does not redirect so it must be deleted. --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 00:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * First, I have restored my original message, which you changed, as well as the warning which I replied to, which you removed making it look like I started some type of garbage here on my own. Please do not do these things again.
 * Second, I still do not see where this was done. I want you to provide the substance behind this warning.  For instance, the diff. of the change in question that is malicious.  Previously, this userpage was a redirect to Jackie Evancho, but this was changed a long time ago (like, before April, which is when I first found this user via the history).  Warning five months later is bad kosher.  So back up your warning to a user who has not been active since April, please.  CycloneGU (talk) 16:30, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the unpleasent interruption. I thought she did something bad and it was my bad mistake. Sorry -- Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 16:38, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I thought it might be, what I saw made no sense. Thanks for retracting it.  CycloneGU (talk) 16:44, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

2nd gold certification
I see that you made an edit to state that there is a 2nd gold certification. Are you referring to the fact that OHN was also certified gold, or something else? I added a clarification about the former in a footnote in two places in the article. If you mean that there's a new certification, can you please point us to a link to the announcement, or a news article about it? Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 12:41, 19 May 2014 (UTC)