User talk:PotterMarkus

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Hello, PotterMarkus, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Stalking the bogeyman, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Promotional edits
Hello, I'm 220 of Borg. I wanted to let you know that another editor undid one or more of your recent contributions to Westword because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. '' You are a new editor so I will make allowances per wp: Assume good faith, but this edit  seems to be purely to promote your play Stalking the bogeyman. This is not what Wikipedia is for. 220  of  Borg 10:29, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Redirect
The separate 'Bogeyman' page has been re-directed to the Westword page. 220  of  Borg 10:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Promotional synopsis
Hey, I had to revert the edit to the synopsis section for the article Stalking the Bogeyman (play). The problem is that the synopsis is incredibly promotional in tone and can be essentially seen as you spamming for your play. When you write up a synopsis it has to be neutral in tone and it shouldn't contain any WP:PEACOCK phrasing or buzz words in it along the lines of "A story of transformation, hope and forgiveness of the highest order." We also almost never write things such as "A True story that garnered national attention after airing on This American Life, Stalking the Bogeyman tells the true story of journalist David Holthouse". Not only is all of that redundant within its own sentence, but it's also redundant to the opening paragraph of the article as a whole, which states that it's based on Holthouse's article. There's absolutely no need to state this again in the synopsis section. An example of what a synopsis section should look like for a stage play or musical would be something like Into_the_Woods or Twelfth_Night. It should not come across as a promotion for the musical. What also doesn't help is that since it reads as promotional, it's likely taken from a promotional pamphlet or synopsis for the play, which would make it WP:COPYVIO. Even if you were to relinquish all rights to the synopsis and consider that synopsis fair use, we still couldn't use it since it isn't neutrally written.

If you keep trying to re-add the information then you run the risk of being blocked as a spammer. I don't want that to happen and I think that you mean well, but you really need to stop re-adding this information as it was written. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   04:45, 28 January 2014 (UTC)