User talk:Jmw1959

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January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ''I do not doubt the number. I simply ask that you provide a reliable source for verification.'' Muhandes (talk) 16:27, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Some comments
While I'm here, some comments about style. Please don't use R.I.A.A. at all. Either use Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA (notice the wikilinks). You can also wikilink Nielsen SoundScan. Neither RIAA nor BPI certify sales, they both certify shipments, which is a different thing. Another note is about the place where you add material. Look at this sentence: "The album was dedicated to Matthew Shepard and Oliver Johnstone, Davey Johnstone's late son. In the U.S. it was certified Gold on 11/5/2001 by the R.I.A.A.", does this make sense to you? What does being dedicated to someone have to do with being certified? If you want to add material, add it so it relates to existing text. By the way, the exact date is usually quite irrelevant to the lead, except where it is unique, say, very much later than the release or on the day of release. In the first case, the year is enough. In the second, the unique point should be mentioned. I hope this helps. --Muhandes (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Please don't add citation needed templates without providing a source Muhandes (talk) 16:40, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Little Jeannie. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. ''Please read MOS:DATE and familiarize yourself with how to present a date. I've seen quite a number of edits in which you replaced the proper date with an improper one.'' Muhandes (talk) 12:22, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * another example. Seems like you created a mountain of work for other editors to fix. Please stop that. --Muhandes (talk) 12:25, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, I noted you keep adding "by the RIAA" to certifications. While it is OK to add the certifying body, per WP:ABBR it should be mentioned in its full name, Recording Industry Association of America, at least in the first time it is mentioned in each article. While I'm leaving you a message, I may add that the exact date in which an album is certified it usually meaningless. The year should be enough. Also, please add a source. You can use cite certification if you wish, see e.g. what I added to Philadelphia Freedom (song). --Muhandes (talk) 12:59, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I notice that you removed a Wikilink to RIAA and a link about the RIAA certification program from the article on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song). You did not provide any edit explanation when doing that. Can you please explain your reason for removing these Wikilinks? I think that the average reader might not be familiar with the RIAA and its certification programe, and would find it helpful to find links to provide that information. —BarrelProof (talk) 00:25, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use disruptive, inappropriate or hard-to-read formatting, as you did at Don't Go Breaking My Heart, you may be blocked from editing. There is a Wikipedia Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. ''And again, you removed a wikilink, also going against WP:ABBR. You also removed a source without explanation. Please stop that.'' Muhandes (talk) 09:21, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Please also read WP:LEAD. The purpose of the lead section is to summarize the article. The dates you add, while correct, and are not required for summarizing the article. --Muhandes (talk) 09:43, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

April 2013
Hello, I'm Technopat. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it didn't appear constructive. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! I see that you have already been requested to observe the Wikipedia MoS, in this case Do not insert of between a month and a year (April 2000, not April of 2000). Technopat (talk) 18:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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