User talk:CrookedSmile

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. --Paul Erik 04:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Jay
Hi. You posted the following message - click here - on User_talk:Paul Erik. In order for us to be certain that this message is from the official biographer of Matthew Jay, and the content submitted to our article is freely available for Wikipedia, please indicate on http://www.silverwood.plus.com/crookedsmile/biography.htm that the material is freely available through the GFDL scheme. See Copyright policy or the above message Paul left for further detail. This message must appear on the same page as the biography of Matthew Jay that the text was lifted from.

Until this is the case, the material cannot be permitted on Wikipedia. I am sure you understand that we must be very careful about copyright infringement. If you do have any questions, please do contact me via either my talk page, or via email. Regards, Proto   ►  23:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Another note about the Matthew Jay article
As a secondary note, even if this is released under the GFDL, I'm not so sure an official label biography should be at the Matthew Jay namespace. Generally we require that articles are verified from reliable 3rd party sources and our written in a neutral, non-promotional tone. This includes biographical articles. Some of the conent at the official biography of Jay doesn't seem to conform to this. Obviously, an official website for an artist isn't really a 3rd party source and is going to be more promotional in nature than an encyclopedic article should be. I don't have a problem with using it as one of many sources in an article on Jay, but I don't think a cut and paste verbatim is warrented here. I also wanted to take the opportunity to point out WP:OWN because I'm not sure you are aware of this principle from some of the things you noted on User_talk:Paul Erik. Asking someone to not edit an article so it stays in the form you have left it is not really in the spirit of what Wikipedia is all about. This is a place where all of our contributions are open to be edited by others, sometimes mercilessly. Matthew Jay is an article that is subject to change like any article here on Wikipedia. If you have any questions or comments about the policies and guidelines I've mentioned here, don't hesitate to ask. Regards, Isotope23 18:38, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Edits to Matthew Jay during June 2007
Hello, CrookedSmile. In your edit on June 8, you stated you were supplying corrections. Could you please let me know what the errors in the article were? (I do know that he died in London, not in Nottingham; sorry I did not correct that sooner. But were there other errors?) I would like to be sure not to reintroduce errors if I make further edits to the article.

I think that you and I likely have a similar goal: a decent article at the Matthew Jay namespace. Wikipedia readers usually will take an article more seriously when it is well referenced (see WP:CITE) and thus verified from reliable third-party sources. I have been able to find little beyond the BBC Wales tribute article. Do you have some newspaper or magazine articles about Jay that are not available online? I think it would help readers very much to see citations for the comparisons to other musicians that you have noted. I would be glad to help with formatting of the citations. If you have any PDF files of the articles, you could email them to me by going to my user page and clicking "Email this user" in the toolbox on the left of the page.

On a related matter, I am not sure if you have a conflict of interest here—please review Conflict of interest—but I would suggest caution at least about the appearance of conflict of interest. If the edits you make give the impression that the goal is to sell music rather than to provide an educational article about Jay, then readers might be more skeptical of the content.

I would also emphasize that I mean no disrespect or offense, either with my comments above, or with my removal of copyrighted material in the past. I would be glad to help to move the Matthew Jay article in the direction of good article status. Feel free to respond here, as I will watch this page. Cheers, --Paul Erik 01:30, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up
Ah! I have just discovered the listings at http://www.silverwood.plus.com/crookedsmile/press.htm – this is very helpful! Much obliged, --Paul Erik 02:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your recent email. I responded via Matthew Jay's website as you suggested. Best regards, --Paul Erik 02:46, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Paula Darwish and the Country and Eastern Band concern
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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Paula Darwish and the Country and Eastern Band


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