User talk:Editor.Elizabeth

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Editor.Elizabeth. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Cleveland Ballet (founded 2014), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 23:42, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, articles should not be moved, as you did to Cleveland Ballet, without good reason. They should have a name that is both accurate and intuitive. Wikipedia has some guidelines in place to help with this. Generally, a page should only be moved to a new title if the current name doesn't follow these guidelines. Also, if a page move is being discussed, consensus needs to be reached before anybody moves the page. If you would like to experiment with page titles and moving, please use the test Wikipedia. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 16:37, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, understood. Thank you! I am still relatively new here. :) Editor.Elizabeth (talk) 16:43, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Cleveland Ballet articles
Hi, I see you're new here, but please slow down. I've put in a request to undo your move. Please let the dust settle for a day or two after that, because a lot of the other edits will need to be undone to conform.

I know you're new, but consider you may not understand all the ins and outs of Wikipedia before unilaterally deciding what is a primary topic. Consider WP:RECENT and that, just because the organization you're writing about is the most recent of organizations with the same name does not in itself make it the primary topic. Comparing a ballet company with a six-year history to one with a forty-year history across two cities, it's pretty clearly not.

I appreciate the edits you've made to the 2014 article, and don't want to discourage you from it. But please bear in mind there are multiple editors on Wikipedia, and don't just push your preferred text in there deleting others.

You've obviously done some writing, but it looks like you're used to doing so in a very different, possibly promotional, context. Wikipedia is very different from that, and you should follow its styles. Compare to other high-quality articles, not non-Wikipedia writing. A few things I've noticed; there may be more:


 * Don't use titles like "Ms.", "Dr." or degrees after the name.
 * Season numbers are not normally done in Roman numerals.
 * Most importantly, watch the WP:POV and WP:PEACOCK phrases. You're not writing for fans of this ballet, and the purpose of the article is to describe it, not to promote it.
 * Limit the article to things about the topic of the article (not for example, about Playhouse Square, where they perform).
 * Capitalization: things like job titles or "the Company" and other nouns that are not proper nouns generally should not be in caps. WP:CAPITALS is helpful here.
 * Wikilinking: where other articles on topics referred to exist, and the reader may be interested in them, please include a wikilink on the first mention of them. The ballets themselves are obvious candidates for that. You don't want to over-link of course. For example, it wouldn't make sense to link to United States if that's referred to.

I hope you take this as constructive criticism, and I really very much appreciate the work you're doing. I'm not complaining; I'm just trying to help channel you into further success. We can make it better together.

I added the infobox the other day; if you can expand that out -- with sources -- that would be great.

You did not address the COI query above. Do you have any connection with the current Cleveland Ballet? Are you a paid editor?

Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia, and I look forward to continuing to work constructively with you. TJRC (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for your help and insights! Sorry if my writing sounds too non-neutral. I am just very interested in the Cleveland Ballet and its history. Editor.Elizabeth (talk) 17:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * So you have no connection to the current Cleveland ballet? TJRC (talk) 18:09, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Template:Ballet companies
Hey, this was a great edit; that's an improvement over what I had.

I'm going to undo the follow-up, though. If each of the individual ballets is linked, there's no value in linking to the dab page. TJRC (talk) 18:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

More Cleveland Ballet stuff
I'm going through the article, bit by bit making small and large improvements. There has still been the occasional light POV issues; I'm instead quoting the actual sources to negate any editorial views on the part of Wikipedia editors.

I reworked the section on performances. A season-by-season list is not tenable for any ballet company of any significant tenure. Can you imagine trying to list every performance by the Cincinnati Ballet over its 62-year (so far) reign? I think a list of ballets produced is better; the notes column can indicate repetitions when they invariably occur (a la the Nutcracker). Plus, it's sortable, which will be more important as time goes on.

Dates. The article has a couple different formats on dates. When I started it, I used YYYY-MM-DD (like 2019-05-29 for May 29, 2019). In the event of a conflict, we're supposed to use the first-used format, but I'm not particularly wedded to it (it does make sorting easier, but I got around that in the table). The only think I would oppose is a format like 29 May 2019. Would you prefer "2019-05-29" or "May 29, 2019"? I'm okay either way.

Technically, dates in text do not need to match  and   fields in the references. I dislike YYYY-MM-DD in text, other than in sortable tables, but otherwise do not care much.

Cheers! TJRC (talk) 00:18, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
Hi Editor.Elizabeth! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Cleveland Ballet (founded 2014) that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. ''Also, please use accurate edit summaries. It is inappropriate to edit the article to remove critical commentary from reviewers while labeling the edit "Minor grammatical edits. No changes to content."'' TJRC (talk) 19:06, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks again, and happy editing! ThadeusOfNazerethTalk to Me! 17:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)