User talk:Jcampbell1205

John Singleton
Hello. I wanted to thank you for your contributions to the John Singleton article but to let you know that, unfortunately, they have had to be removed as some time before your own entries of text the article had been modified with copyrighted content which we could not retain. Ordinarily in such cases, we will try when possible to retain later additions, but I'm afraid that there were policy issues with the material that you added that left me unable to restore it to publication. However, since it is very possible that you can address these issues, I have moved it to User:Jcampbell1205/Singleton.

The policies that I would ask you to review are Neutral point of view and Verifiability. While well done, I'm afraid that the material reads like a magazine or newspaper article about the subject, rather than an encyclopedia entry. Wikipedia's mandate requires that we remain neutral on subjects; we can't, for example, say that "The techniques that Singleton used back in the early 90’s launched a whole new style of movie making that has changed Hollywood for the better." This is opinion, and it would need a source to show whose opinion it is. If it is our own, we can't include it. We also cannot quote people without providing an inline source for that quotation. Where, for example, did Mr. Ken Smikle, who in the 90’s was the publisher of Target Market News magazine, say “The black population is younger, and is growing faster than other segments of the U.S. population, other than Latinos…so our future numbers look even better to studios” (ticket sales), “because young people buy the bulk of movie tickets”?

I would recommend that if you consider restoring this content to the article, you review it carefully to make sure it does not draw any conclusions about Mr. Singleton or his work unless those conclusions are expressed and cited as somebody else's opinion. Please also make sure that you use inline citations for any quotations and for any material that is not common knowledge about Mr. Singleton. If you'd like feedback on it, you may get good responses if you bring them up at Requests for feedback. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:38, 24 April 2011 (UTC)