User talk:Noodlefeet

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Hello, Noodlefeet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Collage Dance Theatre. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Mirokado (talk) 21:11, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
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Collage Dance Theatre
Hi. Clearly we are going to want to rename Collage Dance Theatre as Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre as that is the current name. Do you want to do that (I think you can with 21 or so edits) or shall I? (If we rename it, the previous title remains as a redirect to the new title). --Mirokado (talk) 21:14, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Now moved. I'm also doing some "wikifying", I will try to break the changes up into chunks with clear differences, so you can see what was needed. --Mirokado (talk) 03:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I am the Director of Communications for Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, thanks so much for changing the name of the page, I was having trouble figuring our how to do that. We want the performance highlights the way we listed them with the descriptions underneath. I will change them back, please do not edit those. :)


 * And greetings to you and I'm glad I could help with the page move. Thanks also for warning about your reversion, but I have to explain to you that you cannot decide exactly how you want the page to appear, even if you are the Director of Communications for the subject of the page. Have a look at the notice which appears every time you edit something: "If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here."
 * Please read our guidelines about editing pages for which you have a conflict of interest. That is not forbidden, but you must be extremely careful to edit from a neutral point of view and respect the fact that Wikipedia is a collaborative editing environment.
 * Also please read our guidelines about copyright. All material on your website is "©2012 Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre. All Rights Reserved." so it cannot be copied to Wikipedia without substantial paraphrasing and summarising. That is why I removed some material from the page, mentioning copyvio in the edit summaries. Anything which is copied verbatim from the website will have to be removed or altered so it is original text. (You can licence your website under a free license compatible with Wikipedia, but most organisations do not want to do that for obvious reasons and even if you do, Wikipedia is not a mirror for other websites and there is very little point in just copying text which is available elsewhere). There is no objection to your fleshing out the performance details a bit, but the text must be original and other editors may well change it further.
 * I also "wikified" the source so that the page display harmonises with other pages on wikipedia and the source uses idioms common to other pages. You are of course welcome and encouraged to build on the work of other editors but it is "unconstructive" to revert such changes. Please restore them.
 * I notice that you have also removed the reference to the company repertory. That is also "unconstructive" since it is required to support the details in the article. Please restore it.
 * All the above is written rather firmly so that you will take notice of it. Many new editors like yourself with an immediate purpose have initial difficulties with what is a complex editing environment with is own rules and customs. Nothing I say is intended to be unwelcoming or discourage you from editing here. I will follow this post up with a standard welcome message which will also contain some useful links.
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 * --Mirokado (talk) 16:53, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Update: I see that in addition to reverting some changes that we need, you have also been trying hard to add more references. Well done! I will tidy up Heidi's paragraph so that, I hope, we can remove the BLP tag from it. I will leave the performance descriptions for a a day or so to let you correct any copyright violations... The article format must be tidied up again, for example:
 * using the definition list constructs (source lines starting with ";" and ":" instead of extra blank lines and explicit bold text. This is required both for a degree of visual consistency across Wikipedia as a whole and for WP:ACCESSIBILITY so that somebody using a screen reader is told about list headings and list items.
 * not capitalising every word in section headings, look at other articles for examples
 * not adding extra blank lines for vertical spacing
 * --Mirokado (talk) 17:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I am trying to be as consistent with reference to show validity, etc. If you see anything that needs to be adjusted to be in accordance with the Wikipedia policy, please feel to to change.-Noodlefeet

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Hello, Noodlefeet, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

The one firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Please make sure that nobody else in your organisation edits from your account.

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! You can also just type   on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Mirokado (talk) 16:58, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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Pictures?
Thanks so much for the helpful info! I am new to Wikipedia so I am learning the ropes. I have another question for you, is it possible to add images or pictures? -Noodlefeet
 * Oh yes, we would love to have some pictures. That is a whole other story! I have never uploaded any pictures myself, so I will have to look around for either a suitable link for you, or ask someone else to explain. As an outline, though: the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia must be very careful to avoid copyright problems both with text and with pictures. Thus all pictures must have a compatible licence in order to be used. We upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons with the appropriate licence statement and, if necessary, formal permission for use from the copyright holder and then we can embed them in articles. I can't give you details off the top of my head, but I will post again with a link or whatever. --Mirokado (talk) 17:50, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Great! Any pictures we would add would be our own original with photo credit to our contracted photographer. -Noodlefeet


 * Please look at the following links. I have added brief comments.
 * Help:Files and, if necessary, the link there to further information.
 * commons:Commons:Upload, top-level page of the guidance on Wikimedia Commons for uploading.
 * commons:Special:Upload, uploading a file with a copyright owner, and from the Permission field there,
 * commons:Commons:OTRS, how to register a copyright owner's release (or whatever), you probably need to do this.
 * As I said, I haven't done this yet, but those are the pages I would read through before starting. --Mirokado (talk) 19:42, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:"Governing Bodies" Photo credit Andre Andreev.jpg
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