User talk:Btmybrother

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November 2018
Hello, I'm Maguirej03. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Organ (music) seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. John Maguire (talk) 22:33, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Organ repertoire. Your edits continue to appear to constitute vandalism and have been automatically reverted. Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 02:16, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
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Welcome!
Welcome to the world of editing Wikipedia.

I see you are an enthusiast for Georg Telemann. I first encountered a little of his organ music many years ago, and liked it. But my time for music (after family, work, other music activity) is quite limited, so I have never really explored his music. Your recent activity about him is prompting me to return to try to find out some more, and to learn some more of his pieces, particularly his organ pieces. Thank you.

Please do continue to check, and if necessary update, the Wikipedia articles that refer to him. But remember that Wikipedia aims to be a source of good-quality, well-researched and balanced information, that is well-written and well-presented. That, at least, is the ideal.

The reality, however, often falls short. A lot of us spend a lot of time, invisibly, simply trying to increase the quality level of Wikipedia articles. This isn't necessarily adding information. On the contrary it can often be removing material that is not what Wikipedia calls "encyclopaedic": for instance material that is poorly written, is minor, is not properly sourced, that unbalances a general purpose article, that is out of place, ... etc.

Some of your recent additions have been undone ("reverted", in the technical Wikipedia jargon). Please be assured that this is nothing personal at all; it is just that more experienced editors found that it didn't match those criteria.

Articles such as Organ (music) and Organ repertoire have degraded over the years, because editorial oversight has lapsed. What they primarily need is a good general clean-up. And if you look at the recent history of the Organ (music) article, you'll see that I've been trying to do a little this morning (UK time). Now it may (or may not) be that part of that clean-up is to include previously unrepresented material (for example, about Telemann).

One thing you might do is to find some articles on subjects that interest you, but that you can be truly objective about (favourite holiday destinations, foods, etc.) and hone Wikipedia-editing skills there. Then, with that experience under you belt, return to the topics you are passionate about, presumably including Telemann, and work with editors to improve the article (and insert a little Telemann!).

Hope that helps. And welcome, again. And thanks for inspiring me to re-investigate Telemann for myself!

Feline Hymnic (talk) 13:25, 10 November 2018 (UTC)


 * For info: I have just done a lot of vital tidying of the article "Organ (music)"; it is now nearly 25% smaller than it had been. Now that is (largely) done, I have added a mention of Telemann as you wished. Feline Hymnic (talk) 18:48, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

April 2022
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Stéphane Grappelli, you may be blocked from editing. Binksternet (talk) 15:27, 30 April 2022 (UTC)