User talk:Fashionator

I have loaded the Lloyd Klein logo and have followed all of the guidelines to upload this media. However, I cannot figure out how to take it from where it now exists to include it as a reference on the article. Can anyone please help me out with that? I would appreciate learning how to do it without assistance so if you can refer me to an article that can provide instructions it would be most appreciated. I have scoured the cite for such text but still remain confused. thank you! Fashionator (talk) 23:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Lloyd Klein on List of fashion designers
The list is sorted by nationality, which for purposes of consistency, is defined as the designer's place of birth (where known). In fact, it says so in the very first sentence: "This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by their nationality/place of birth" For example, although Ottavio Missoni is an Italian designer, and was listed as Italian for a long time on the list, his recent death drew it to our attention that he was actually born in Croatia, so he was relocated to Croatia on the list. As Lloyd Klein was born in Canada, he is listed under Canada on the list, even though you may argue he is American (and others would insist he is French). When you originally added him, User:Msnicki relocated him to Canada as per this edit (note her summary note in which she explains why the move).

The reason for listing by place of birth is because you can only be born in ONE place, whereas if we started listing everyone by other criteria, then Lloyd Klein would have entries under Canada, America, and France. If we started listing everyone in all the places they have worked and/or lived, most names on the list would appear at least twice, many would appear three or four times, and some well-travelled designers would appear up to 10 times - making the list insanely unwieldy and impossible to navigate. Listing by place of birth may not be ideal or perfect, but it is consistent. Mabalu (talk) 09:57, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

thank you so much Mabalu: it makes sense!Fashionator (talk) 10:16, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Gres
Hi - thanks for all your work on the Madame Gres article just now. Please could you take a look at your referencing and try to reformat the WP:Bare URLs to give a bit more information on each link/article - titles, dates accessed, etc? - just to tidy it up a bit as WP:Link rot is a real risk when using bare URLs. I'll be taking a closer look when I have a bit more time, just to make sure what you've added is accurate, but THANK YOU for tackling this, it needed it. Mabalu (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mabalu...the only reason it's not done already is that I needed to get some sleep I worked on it till about 6 am ..... however, my goal is to have it complete....today. I am really happy to work on the Gres page because she was certainly an important figure in the history of fashion particularly her influence at the level of impact on the fashion designers themselves. I have sourced out all of my material. I do have a couple of questions and would be so happy if you could provide reply. 1. If I have a book that contains quotes that was printed for a special program but is not an isbn or other type of federally registered hardcover bound book but had a print of 2000 copies as a souvenir program... can i use material from that book as a source? 2. I am confused about tables and which kind of template can be used to make any of the following lists a. list of perfumes created by Parfum Gres (as opposed to the various versions that I have researched and are in chrono order but now are situated as a paragraph versus a table format.  Each time that I try to figure it out I find that two hours or more has passed and I give up.  The other type of table would be similar but would be a client listing that I could arrange in alphabetical order that would be easier to use as a reference which I would like to use on the Lloyd Klein Couture page.  respectfully, John  Fashionator (talk) 18:35, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, quick reply - The souvenir programme sounds like potentially a good source as it was published and distributed. Was it for a museum or organisation? (If it was for an amateur exhibition it isn't really allowable, but I can't imagine that an exhibition on Gres would be an amateur effort...) Even though it doesn't have an ISBN number, I would treat it as a book - giving the name of the programme, the date it was published, and the author (if known) or if no author is given, the name of the institution that published it. That will be information enough to enable it to be tracked down. The table question is trickier and will need more thought/attention, hopefully someone will pop along and help out but I'll have a look when I have a chance - maybe Help:Table/Introduction to tables will help? Mabalu (talk) 10:18, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick info. the program/souvenir catalogue I am referring to is a 218page catalog from and art and antique fair that was held in Palm Beach Florida in 2000 titled STYLE: Palm Beach. It is hardbound high quality 4 color souvenir book it has several pages on Lloyd Klein and references his work at Gres. During the time that Lloyd Klein was the designer at Gres 92-95 seems to remain in limbo. Finding images and printed articles or news coverage more difficult than stories that are much older. There are tons of articles and magazines that covered Mr. Klein's activities however, for some odd reason archives in most periodicals seem to go as far as 89 and then pick up again in 99 and those in between years have fewer online resources. Today if a personality has a pimple in public it seems to take on a legacy with photos and dialogue that has trace on the web. But the mid 90's are stuck waiting for the various publications to upload images and articles from archives.

I just located a copy of the catalogue on ebay, its description reads: Style Palm Beach. International Exposition: Jewelry, Fashion, Lifestyle. February 25-29, 2000. Published by International Fine Art Expositions, Sewall’s Point, Florida. Publisher’s glossy color pictorial hardcover. 213 pages. Profusely illustrated with beautiful vivid color photographs. Book measures 9 ½” x 8 ¾”. This exhibition was held at the International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, Florida. Some of the exhibitors represented: Aviva, Robert Bruce Bielka, Dana Bachman, Chatila, De Vroomen, Henn Of London, Jaeger, Faberge, Scavia, Tahitian Pearl Trophy, Varga Art Crystal, Yvel, and many others. Exceedingly rare catalog/book!

I have my own copy and it has the name of publisher, the printer and othere details .. it was given free at the event but now has attained collectible valur but no isbn or other credit as a registered book... Fashionator (talk) 21:34, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

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This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. The thread is WP:COIN. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Gres and copyright and plagiarism issues
Hello,

I have finally had a look at the Madame Gres article. I will be blunt - I am frankly concerned at the quantity of copyvio I have already found in it. For example, I have just killed an entire section because it was made up of whole sentences and quotations directly copied and pasted from the following sources:
 * Kathy Werlin's blog. Note where she says "Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited." You copied a whole block of text from there almost verbatim, which is not acceptable.
 * The Sphinx and the Milky Way blog - More direct lifting of whole sentences - which I didn't see a citation for.
 * A whole sentence lifted without a citation.

That is three strikes - after I found these, I decided to just remove the whole section. I am also going to look at the rest of the article and will remove any more copyvio where I find it - this is in line with Wikipedia policy. (see Copyright violations. Mabalu (talk) 11:01, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I am sorry. I have had to revert the article to the last "clean" version before your edits. There were simply TOO many problems throughout the article. For example, I found very close paraphrasing and direct copying from this newspaper article - seriously unacceptable. I respect that you have done a LOT of work on this, but unfortunately, the extent, the depth, and the complexity of the copyvio issues cannot be ignored. 12:06, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mabalu:

If it is possible I would like to invest time over the coming weeks to re edit those areas of concern. Honestly, so many of the same things have been written about Mme Gres that it will not be too difficult to reconstruct the disapproved areas of text. I will admit that toward the end of my research I ran out of free time in the evenings to fully complete some areas of the article wherein there can be 3-4 authors that have the same or similar descriptions of actual events or accepted general historic reference. In my defense I will say that some articles written by professional journalists quote each other back and forth so often in their musing on Mme Gres it is often times difficult to understand who wrote it first. menkes quotes spears who quotes cota who quotes St. Laurent who says it differently albeit slightly. No harm intended here, Just trying to gather information on a legendary couturier by taking bits and pieces of info found about her and compiling it in one place. By the way, does wiki really have a three strikes law? respectfully, fashionator. Fashionator (talk) 22:02, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Fashionator,
 * Please do work on this. But please, bear in mind that:


 * 1) Every statement must be backed up with a citation, properly formatted. Please do not use bare URLs.
 * 2) Statements should NOT duplicate or closely paraphrase text from the sources. Use your own words if possible.
 * 3) The sources MUST be reliable. This means no vanity publications or anything published without editorial control. Something written for an official museum or art gallery blog will PROBABLY be fine, but please be cautious and if you can find a published source or third-party source giving the same information, use itinstead.
 * 4) The information MUST be encyclopaedic. Is it essential for us to know that her car had a mink interior or the name of her dog? Keep it concise and to the point.


 * I am inclined to think that if you can provide the same level of information as before, but properly formatted, the article will be much improved. But you must do so in your own phrasing and words. I would recommend doing so one section at a time, instead of a huge info-dump. This will make it easier.
 * By the way, Wikipedia does not have a three-strikes policy, but we do have a VERY strict policy on plagiarism and copyvio. One incident of plagiarism can be dealt with relatively easily or highlighted, but the problem was that there was SO much in the article that had been directly copied from so many different pages and sources that I was left with no choice but to carry out a major reversion. Any plagiarism or copyvio must be removed as soon as it is seen or identified, and sadly, the volume that I found in the article was so widespread throughout that I had to err on the side of caution and revert wholesale. Mabalu (talk) 10:51, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

need advice on rebuilding the madame gres article that was removed.
Hi Mabalu, I must say the whole experience of having the work I presented for the Madame Gres article removed completely sort of destroyed my enthusiasm for the whole Wikipedia platform. I felt that it was unfair to throw out the entire article for the various cited copyvio allegations. I simply needed further clarification of the difference between attributing information to the source or writer whether it be a verbatim sentence or paragraph or one that is paraphrased. In those cases in which I used direct copy of language and grammar to include in the article I was under the impression that it was more improper to reference a fact found on a legitimate article and that the error would be to erroneously modify perfect text with my own reconstituted version of what seemed to be sentences that were perfect in original form. I though t as long as there was a reference or link to the original that it was acceptable. I thought that quotation marks would be used only when it was a quote over heard by someone else or when an author insinuated an opinion and not a fact. for example: John Doe was born in Los Angeles in January 1989. This as written seems perfect and would not need to be changed as a factual statement. It would seem to me that the statement is sufficiently credited by providing a reference to the source... In any case, I would like to go back to the editing process in spite of the feelings I personally have about your actions with regard to work done for a great artist without any replacement by you. This seems particularly unjust because not a single word or fact was misrepresented and was in deed researched to the hilt to ensure that the voices who have written about Madame Gres collectively were in sync with her biography. Today when I finally returned to the site to hopefully find the history of the article that would include the contributions I had made on the page ... it is nowhere to be found. It is profoundly disturbing to think that over 90 days of working diligently on that article would simple be erased. Is there a way to find that article prior to it revert to use as a basis for revising from that lengthy work that I created?Fashionator (talk) 22:24, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just now saw this addressed to me. The article was extensively plagiarised with wholesale copying of sentences and passages from such a wide range of sources that it needed to be completely deleted. Statements such as "John Doe was born in 1920 in Los Angeles", as you say, are straightforward and not copyrightable. But lifting entire sentences discussing her work is absolutely unacceptable. Quoting is fine, but it should be fully acknowledged, and used VERY sparingly and not as a substitute for actually writing your own text. When almost the entire article seems to be riddled with what you call "quotation" and which most people would call "copy and pasting", then the only solution is to erase ALL the copyright violation and start over again. I'm sorry you feel disheartened but to edit Wikipedia, you really need to know the difference between relaying what the sources say, and directly lifting their words wholesale. Mabalu (talk) 10:31, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

April 2014
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I'd like to submit edits for the Lloyd Klein article
Fashionator (talk) 14:13, 11 March 2015 (UTC)My name is John Arguelles, I am closely related to the subject, I am a partner in his company with the same name: Lloyd Klein. As such, I will only included verifiable facts for other admins to consider for addition of pertinant information that would contribute to his article and be of interest to the readers of his Wikipedia page. I have studied the statutes and rules for posting ad nauseum and will admit it is still a little jaggy and confusing to me, so I ask your indulgence in my learning curve which is getting less curvy all the time. However, If I may, I'd like to add in information that is just fact, even though I do so with extreme caution and taking great care in doing so with the sole intent of avoiding puffery at all times. I have attempted to scour Wiki for case studies and exceptions as well as to do my best to locate articles that are in the similar range of category as the subject Lloyd Klein falls within to try to ascertain what is considered valuable information and what is held as trivial. There seems to be a wide discrepancies that runs through the site in the category of Biography of Living Person. I do so, while completely aware that it might be dangerous to assume that something is acceptable just because it is currently existing within an article, however, I do realize that in order to keep Wikipedia on course, changes must be made one page at a time. If there is an article that meets Wiki criteria to satisfaction and is considered an excellent example, I would very much appreciate if someone could direct me to its link for future editing purposes.

Lloyd Klein was born February 1967 in Montreal Canada(2) In 1983 he came to Paris and enrolled at the Ecole National des Decoratifs to study architecture (2) In October 1987 he presented his first pret a porter collection (2) In January 1990 he presented a collection of haute couture (2)

Lloyd Klein was born on February 15th, 1967 side note: although the article does not list his birthday it does provide a timeline of sequence of dates for his birth indicating that in 2004 on february 10 which was a Tuesday he would turn 35 the next sunday which was February 15th in 2004. The math is sound as is the date of his birth February 15th 1967. Today he is 47 years old.

I have further edits to offer but would like to add them in slowly and deliberately so that admins have the time to check the refs that support the facts. Thank you for your time and consideration.Fashionator (talk) 14:13, 11 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you,, for your clear and very proper conflict-of-interest statement. Any suggestions you may have for changes to the Lloyd Klein page would best posted at Talk:Lloyd Klein, preferably using a  tag as you did before. Of those above, I've added what I was able to confirm from the source you mention (the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, the prêt-à-porter collection in 1987) but not all. We can't extrapolate his date of birth from clues – that constitutes what we call original research; it's also risky - based on what you say he would have turned 48 on 15 February 2015, and no longer be 47 as you have calculated.
 * As you rightly observe, Wikipedia can only improve articles individually. Looking around you will inevitably find plenty that could be better, and of course you should feel free to make changes on any topic other than Lloyd Klein and his business. The fashion industry is not an area where Wikipedia has many of its best articles. A couple that have achieved featured article status are Bronwyn Bancroft and Gwen Stefani. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:10, 22 March 2015 (UTC)