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Robert Hart Baker
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Robert Hart Baker, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: Robert Hart Baker (Conductor). It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page&mdash; you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.

It is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article. CorenSearchBot (talk) 12:57, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

December 2011
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Robert Hart Baker (Conductor) with this edit, did not appear to be constructive, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 13:05, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

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Osarius : T : C : Been CSD'd? 14:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
The article Robert Hart Baker is written in very promotional terms, full of language such as "graced some famous and infamous halls with his presence", describing him as "excellent", and even referring to him as "The Maestro". Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view, and must not appear to be written to promote their subjects. The article could be speedily deleted in accordance with one of Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, namely unambiguous advertising or promotion. Rather than deleting the article, I thought it more helpful to warn you about this, and give you a chance to edit it to remove the promotional tone. However, thee is nothing to stop another editor from tagging the article for speedy deletion, so it would be a good idea to work on it as soon as you can. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:30, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I accept your correction on "Maestro". Best of luck with the article. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:53, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, Decwrites, I have removed "Maestro". It is an inappropriate and unspecific honorific, and not an official job description. It's used in promotional writing for everything from composers to conductors, to instrumentalists, to music teachers, but never in music encyclopedias. Take a look at the Wikipedia articles on the most famous composers and conductors, e.g. Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Giuseppe Verdi, none of them use "Maestro". Today I've extensively copyedited this article to conform to Wikipedia's Manual of Style for biographies, general article formatting, and encyclopedic tone. I have removed inappropriate personal commentary on the subject and unreferenced claims about their personality and private life as well. Please do not re-add them, even if they are positive ones (as these were), without an inline citation to a reliable independent published source. Please see Wikipedia's policy on the biographies of living persons for guidance in this area. I have also removed redundant and/or inappropriate external links, per Wikipedia: External links. The clean-up tags on the article provide links to guidance on dealing with the remaining outstanding issues with the article, which primarily have to do with the referencing which is currently almost exclusively to the subject's official biographies on various websites. He would probably pass the notability criteria, but you need to supply many more independent sources for the claims made in the article. Voceditenore (talk) 17:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Useful note
Hey. I noticed you were having some trouble when you accidentally created two versions of the article on Mr Baker. You tried to delete the surplus version, and it didn't work.

The reason it didn't work is that, although anyone can create pages, only people with administrator access (like me) can delete pages.

Just an explanation, so that if it happens again, you don't get upset. DS (talk) 16:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

February 2019
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