User talk:MarkAlexisGabriel

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AfD nomination of The Road Chronicles and others
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Catalouging Tori songs on Wikipedia
Unfortunately, this is NOT the place for that. There are a group of fans working on creating a Tori wiki; that is an appropriate venue. Not Wikipedia where few Tori songs bear any relevance to the masses or have any sort of citeable notability. You may find my AfD-ing some articles of yours unbecoming; however, as the GGEB AfD page shows, your goals and the goals of the most of us (and the encyclopedia in general) differ quite a bit.Butterfly0fdoom (talk) 07:53, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I know all about the "fan wiki". I'm the one who began mention of it. In either case, I'll just stick to updating the albums on here. Thank you for your time (and patience). Mark-Alexis Gabriel

Re: Thanks for the compromise
You are welcome for the compromise, and thank you for not taking my edits so personally. I remember when I started out as a Wikipedian, I would be hurt/dismayed by edits, but I quickly learned that they were not to be taken personally-- rather they were made to improve the overall quality of the article in question.

I haven't had a chance to take a close look at the Midwinter Graces article yet, but you have done a great job compiling info and sources for Abnormally Attracted to Sin article. I particularly like the critical reception section, so 'job well done'! =)

Thanks for the compliments on my edits/changes. I strive to make articles concise and flowing. Some of my "babies" are the Boys for Pele article and the Tori Amos discography list. Cheers! --Pisceandreams (talk) 02:50, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: Boys for Pele
Of course you can contribute. Anyone can contribute. I'm well aware that there's plenty more info out there on the album, I just haven't had the time lately to go search for more to include. (If you look at the article's history, you'll see that I haven't made any significant contributions to the article in quite a while. A lot has happened in life to keep me from delving into the article further.) My ultimate goal with the article is to nominate it for Featured Article status (it would be the first one of any of the Tori-related articles to achieve such a feat), so please contribute what you think is truly encyclopedic and pertinent, and for which you can provide a valid source.

I didn't read through all of your blog post yet, but I did skip down to the section on "Doughnut Song" (my favorite song on the album and one of my all-time favorite songs of hers) and it's interesting that she said, "I think one of the most important lines in the entire record for me was, “You told me last night you were a sun now, with your very own devoted satellite. I’m happy for you, and I am sure that I hate you; two sons [suns] too many; too many able fires.”" because that's the line that spoke to me the most, and that I believe is the essence of the album. Looking forward to reading your contributions. =) --Pisceandreams (talk) 06:01, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

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Night of Hunters
Hello MarkAlexisGabriel. I've been enjoying working with you on the article for the upcoming Tori Amos album, Night of Hunters. Thanks for helping to keep out non-encyclopedic info and all other stuff.

Just to clarify one of my edits, I moved the 'touring' section out from under the 'Background' section to give it its own section, as per the articles on most of Amos' other albums. I wasn't understanding how a tour to promote an album after its release could be included in a section devoted to the album's background, involving its inception and creation. Perhaps as more information is released and the article begins to take shape, everything will fall into its right place. =) --Pisceandreams (talk) 14:34, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Violation of Wikipedia's 3RR.
You need to review Three-revert rule. You have now reverted edits a fourth and a fifth time within 24 hours, a violation of Wikipedia policy. You should discuss issues on Talk:Night of Hunters rather than revert against policy. 99.192.60.38 (talk) 23:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Of course there is such a thing as an acoustic instrument
From the Acoustic music page: "Often a microphone is placed in front of an acoustic instrument which is then wired up to an amplifier." From the Classical guitar page: "It is an acoustic instrument." If you google "acoustic instrument" you get over one million hits. The idea that there is no such thing as an acoustic instrument is absurd. 99.192.58.167 (talk) 13:43, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Format for talk pages
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Please correct link to disambiguation page
When you edited the Jessica Lange article, you added a link to Congo, which is a disambiguation page rather than an article. If you know from the source material whether it's referring to the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, could you please edit your link to point to the appropriate page? Most common usage referring to the country simply as "Congo" is about Republic of the Congo, not the DRC, but I didn't want to assume that in this case since you're probably more familiar with the topic. Thanks! LarryJeff (talk) 15:08, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

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Jessica Lange
I see you are a fan of Lange, which I sympathise with, but statements such as "I like the lead" do not really make the lead good in accordance with WP:BLP and WP:NPOV. And I hope you are aware that the article is not owned by you, so your personal preference does not matter as far as Wikipedia is concerned.

I spent half an hour to copyedit it and all of its mistakes, the huge amount of POV and redundancies. I added several films which were not mentioned and toned down the fan-led stuff. And there are many more such instances throughout the article which I am willing to take care of.

If you still "like the lead" the way it was before, then I don't mind taking it to WP:DRN where other editors express their opinions about it. Until then, I request that you respect the hard work I've done and do not engage in an edit war, as you have in the past. Thank you. Shahid •  Talk 2 me  22:15, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The article is in need of a major copyedit. Some portions of it are just really poorly done, and it has a lot of POV and little sources. Shahid  •  Talk 2 me  08:10, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

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January 2012
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Sockpuppetry case
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Your last two edits
and → Were those edit summaries really necessary? --MuZemike 02:58, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Jessica Lange
First of all, read WP:NPA which you have violated beyond imagination. I'm going to report it. Second, I see you've done the majority of the work on this page. And that's the problem. The article is terrible, it reads like a fansite. And my edits stand and will stand even if you don't like it because they go in accordance with policy as opposed to you, so you saying that will leave it for now does not make sense. And you do not own this page, even if you were the sole contributor to it. Shahid •  Talk 2 me  11:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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 * And you have now been blocked for 3 days because of your constant harassment of others. As if and  were bad enough,  is completely unacceptable here. --MuZemike 12:22, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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February 2012
Your recent editing history at Jessica Lange shows that you are in danger of breaking the three-revert rule, or that you may have already broken it. An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Breaking the three-revert rule often leads to a block.

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Sockpuppetry case
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Blocked

 * To be clear, this is the last chance. Next time you're caught socking, you will be blocked for much longer. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 03:35, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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Sockpuppetry case
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Your use of multiple Wikipedia accounts
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 * Comment:
 * I believe I have learned a lesson, no less have other contributors who had the privilege to "work" with you. You have no respect for any other individual and for any matter else, but you and your self-destructive obsession with JL, and you have no sense what so ever for a neutral point of view as clearly obvious. For the past two years, you keep posting a content exclusively reserved to herself, her awards and accolades so forth and so on. You were told a hundred times there is an article featuring such list with full details, and yet, you keep exhausting her additional articles with your countless totals of her awards in each possible section, just the same way as you keep creating your new and new "alter egos", filling all her articles with your own "rave reviews", adding irrelevant templates such as e.g. Infobox comedian awards, etc. As a matter of fact, your tiresome edits rather disrupting than contributing, they all make public dislike the woman actually than the other way around. This is not her fan page, some of us are also trying work around. My advice to you, get a life as soon as possible because you keep wasting your time, so much of those who have a real job to do. For what it's worth, I myself would not recommend to unblock you ever, my formal friend. Tweny13 (talk) 15:13, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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