User talk:Harrisonmlewis

April 2016
Hello, I'm NottNott. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Tuck Everlasting (musical) with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  Nott Nott  talk &#124;contrib 18:51, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced edits at Tuck Everlasting (musical)
Hello Harrisonmlewis. I also noticed that you made numerous unsourced changes to the Tuck Everlasting (musical) article. While your constructive contributions are always appreciated, Wikipedia requires reliable sources for all informational edits. Your just seeing the show in previews, unfortunately, is not enough. So I'll give you an opportunity to source your edits before reverting them. Please do so. Thanks. X4n6 (talk) 21:11, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I was able to source the musical numbers to IBDB. Thanks for your contributions. But it would still be helpful if you could source the characters who sing them. Thanks again. X4n6 (talk) 22:26, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Harrison: As I tried to explain to you earlier, Wikipedia has rules. But if you're willing to work within them, I'm willing to help you. But you can't simply post things because "my sister is Winnie in the show and helps me with these edits." That actually violates a policy regarding primary sources. Please see it here: WP:PRIMARY. If you can't reliably source it, per published (WP:RELIABLESOURCES), then you can't add it. Also, Wikipedia is not a newspaper. For an explanation of what that means here, please see: WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. It's an encyclopedia. So please keep that in mind in all your future edits. Also keep in mind that everything here is subject to change by future editors. So if that offends you in any way, be warned now. Also, since the show is in previews until it opens on the 26th, things will be changing a lot. Wikipedia really isn't the place for daily updates about what numbers come and go. The musical number list I posted is from the official twitter account for the show, as posted for the first preview, seen here. But once the show opens, we'll have a final song list and we can lock it down then.


 * I'm really happy to have you here to help. But if you post unsourced or unpublished information, someone WILL remove it - whether you have direct knowledge or not. By the way, please tell whomever edits your sister's webpage to put her birthplace and date of birth on it, so I can include it in the Wikipedia article I'm writing for her. It would also be nice if someone took a current picture of her or released one for free usage that we could put in that article. Probably in the Tuck article too. I haven't found any of that online and remember, I can only use reliably published sources and free use images. Of course, there are rules that govern the kinds of photos we can use. Here they are: WP:IUP. Also a plot summary for the show, perhaps published in Playbill, would be useful too; so that way we don't have to use the one for the book.


 * Hope I've helped. Don't get frustrated! I know this sounds like a lot!! But it will all make sense to you as you edit more. Especially, as we work on your sister's article here (and perhaps in time, yours as well!) If you have any questions, please feel free to write me, either here or on my talk page and I'll help you as best as I can. Thanks. Cheers! X4n6 (talk) 23:20, 5 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Harrison. Thanks for your notes on my talk page. To make it easier for both of us to follow moving forward, let's just put all our future conversations on this page. I'll bookmark it, so I'll see whenever you add a new response and will get back to you as soon as I can. That should keep us both from having to go back and forth between our pages.


 * Now about the latest: thanks for the birthday and DOB info on your sister. But again, unless it's published somewhere - in print or online - I really can't use it. Even if it just says her birth month and day on her webpage, or in some article, I could use that. By combining it with other sources that say her current age, I could extrapolate her birth year. But I'll check newspaper and magazine articles and see if I can source and verify that she was born in Atlanta. Also, to be clear, was she born in Atlanta itself or one of the suburbs? Thanks for all your help. At least having the right answers helps me find sources to back them up. If you look at other Wikipedia bios, you'll also see that it would be useful to have her parents' names, occupations and the names of her siblings. Nothing too specific really, just the basics. Again, check out other bios listed here and you'll get the idea.


 * Now about her photo: again I can't use any Suzi Bass pictures, or any newspaper shots, because they're all copyrighted. I can't even use production stills from her shows, or her headshots: unless they are specifically licensed for free use. So the best thing to do would be to just take a nice candid shot, perhaps one of her at the stage door, or her dressing room, or outdoors, or at a public event singing or signing autographs or whatever. Just nothing too personal, as it will be seen by thousands of people. Then, if you have a Flickr account, you can post that photo on your Flickr page with the appropriate freely licensed tag; and I can upload it from there and use it on her article and elsewhere on Wikipedia. But just so you know, please understand that photos on Wikipedia will also get used by other publications and websites. Because they all know that if we're using it here, it's freely licensed for them to use too. And they will attribute it to Wikipedia, not to the person who actually took the photo. So you're unlikely to ever get credit for taking it. So just be sure that it's a good photo that you are ok with being used for even wider distribution. Here's all the Flickr info: WP:FLICKR. Let me know if this can work for you.


 * Also, you were absolutely correct that you have seen lots of unsourced materials all over Wikipedia, in direct violation of everything I've told you about sources. That's because most anybody can put almost anything up here. But sooner or later (more often than not, sooner); someone will come along and remove anything that isn't properly sourced. For example, I promise you that if I put up your sister's DOB and birthplace and don't source them, someone else will either challenge or just remove them. Possibly within hours. So I recommend doing it the right way, then it's harder (though still not impossible) for people to change it.


 * Finally, regarding you writing a Tuck synopsis? If you'd like to start one, great! What we can do is incorporate your version with information that we will be able to pull from reviews and other articles, once the final version of the show opens. That way we can create a pretty accurate and well sourced synopsis. Again, other editors will always add to it, take from it, or change it in some way. But that's all just part of the process. As always, hope all this makes sense to you. Let me know if you have any other questions and please let me know if you can make the Flickr idea work. I'm going to try to have your sister's article written in the next few days. Thanks again. Cheers! X4n6 (talk) 20:57, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Dear Evan Hansen
Hey, thanks for the contribution about DEH transferring to Broadway. We typically don't add that info to the infobox until it has actually happened. It is mentioned in the lead section that it will open at the Belasco in November. When that happens, please feel free to add it back into the infobox.

Thanks! BOVINEBOY 2008 12:00, 14 July 2016 (UTC)