User talk:Orangeprice

This is the beginning of my talk page.

Welcome
Hello, Orangeprice and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.

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Welcome from me too!
Hi Orangeprice, and welcome to Wikipedia! I've written some advice on editing here for students in Prof. Jackson's similar classes at Longy School of Music which you might find helpful. You'll find it here. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page (User talk:Voceditenore), or place here on your talk page, ask your question, and another editor will come along to help. You might also be interested in WikiProject Classical music and WikiProject Composers. They have various guidelines for articles in this area and talk pages where you can ask advice from editors experienced in writing articles on classical music and related subjects. You'll find these guides particularly useful: WikiProject Composers: Guide to online research and WikiProject Composers: Copyright guidelines. Happy editing and best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 11:02, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

The Teahouse
Me again. I also wanted to let you know about Wikipedia's Teahouse. It's a place providing great support for new editors. You can ask questions (no question is too basic) and get helpful answers and advice from experienced editors. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:02, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Orangeprice! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 17:09, Monday, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Orangeprice! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 17:19, Monday, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
Hi Orangeprice. As you can see, I have moved your draft into article space as its an important topic with many incoming links from other Wikipedia articles. But, and this is a BIG "but", I had to rewrite much of it. The text was copied from their official page at the Smithsonian. Because that site only allows non-commercial use of its content, it is incompatible with Wikipedia's licensing and cannot be copypasted here. Even if the content had been freely licensed, it was too promotional in tone, plus it is important to reference articles to sources which are entirely independent of the subject.

Please feel free to expand the article further, but make sure you do so in your own words. I've added multiple sources which could help you in this respect, and I'm sure there is much more out there in terms of their more notable concerts and recordings, e.g. reviews in independent publications. You might want to consider researching and adding a section about the SJMO's charter members, several of whom have articles on Wikipedia, e.g. James Chirillo, James Williams, and Vaughn Nark. Another possibility is adding more detail to the "Discography" section.

For basic guidance on how to avoid copyright problems, Copying text from other sources has some good advice for beginners with lots of links to more detailed copyright guidance pages. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 10:28, 27 April 2015 (UTC)