User talk:Mantionette38

September 2019
Hello, I'm Wham2001. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Lady (Kenny Rogers song) have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. ''Wikipedia articles should be written as neutral summaries of the contents of reliable sources independent of the topic, and contain references to the sources that they summarise. Have a look at some of the links in the welcome message I've added below to understand more about how to contribute constructively to Wikipedia articles.'' Wham2001 (talk) 07:10, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Content removal from Lady post
When I posted my edit to the Lady Wikipedia, there was no intention in doing any promotion of any kind. I have nothing to promote unless you are referring to my mentioning where I got my information from, a place that is of public knowledge that has been out for view for almost a year now. I only mentioned as a way of writing “efficiency”, in making the proper reference to where I got my information and completely in wording. I hate to sound angry and please don’t take offense, but if whatever you have removed takes away from the reason why I posted in the first place and that is to make others aware of a version of the song that has gone unappreciated then you can edit and remove my entire edit. It won’t hurt my feelings but it will make me think twice about contributing again due to the fact that I never in the first place. I have not reread the edit to see what you’ve taken out and don’t see the need to. I know my intentions and promotion was not one of them and it would not matter to me if anyone never read my words about the song and it’s many takes on it ever again. Thank you for your time and patience, I appreciate it greatly. Marie Mantionette38 (talk) 02:23, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Marie, I understand that you were acting in good faith to write about something you care about. I felt that I had to remove what you'd written for two reasons.  First, that you didn't refer to any reliable, published sources – see this page for a description of the sorts of sources we use on Wikipedia.  Second, it was full of what we call peacock terms – words that say how great something is without giving a real justification.May I make a suggestion?  If you can find some written sources, reliable in the way described by the link I gave earlier, that describe the Pendergrass cover of Lady, then post links to them at the article talk page and we can write a neutral summary of what they say together.  Does that sound like a constructive way forward? Best, Wham2001 (talk) 17:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)