User talk:Pzbrite

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Re: Rimbaud's request
Despite the fact that I have only edited the entry to correct facts, update bibliography information, remove occasional vandalism, and once to add a paragraph about my use of recurring characters, I will no longer be editing my Wikipedia entry. I regret having made the mistake of being honest enough to do so under my own name in the first place; presumably I could have made the same edits under the pseudonym "Joe Blow" and no one would have been the wiser. -- Sincerely, Poppy Z. Brite

Attention: Poppy Z. Brite
You are one of my favorite authors and, as a writer myself, one of my major influences. I noticed in the History page of your entry here that you have been editing it yourself. I've checked over the entry and found nothing really wrong with your edits--so I am assuming that you're not out to make yourself look better or anything. In any case, I request that you please stop editing your own entry. I request this because, not counting the few bad apples that vandalize articles, the majority of users here on Wikipedia aim to create and maintain factual, balanced, and non-biased entries. You editing an entry on yourself makes it unbalanced and biased because, well, your editing an entry about yourself. This makes wikipedia users such as I leery.

If there is something unaddressed, or if you believe that something is false, please address it on your official website and/or provide a link to an interview or site with the info. That way, us wikipedians can put it in the entry and have a citation for it.

Thank you for your cooperation. And if you ever get the urge to edit your entry again, please refer to this wiki article about the Stephen Colbert and think about the consiquences of your actions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report#Wikipedia_references

Yours Truly, Rimbaud 2 (talk) 17:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Your username ...
If you are Poppy Z. Brite, or someone else with the initials/surname P Z Brite, there's no problem.

However, if you are not one of the above, bear in mind that Wikipedia's username rules prohibit usernames that are those of well known people, living or dead. This is to prevent confusion.

Sorry to sound as if I'm giving you grief about this. I don't intend to cause you difficulty, but rather to save everyone some. If you'd like to discuss this further, ask for help in changing username if needed, or anything else, contact me on User talk:Morven, respond here, or email me at [mailto:morven@byz.org my email address]. Thanks in advance, &mdash;Morven 23:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:

 * Firstly, are you the P Z Brite mentioned in the article?
 * Secondly, I was simply reverting edits my an anonymous IP, removing edits which seem suspicious is what us RC patrollers do.

I revert roughly 12-15 counts of vandalism a minute, and its not possible for me to get a balanced view of the article in the few seconds that I look at a page.

If you are qualified to do so, please be WP:BOLD and improve the page. Please do remember to add references for whatever you add, in line with WP:CITE.

Cheers! - xC - |  ☎  05:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if I'm answering in the proper format, but yes, I am that P.Z. Brite. I've partially restored the addition, but removed the editorializing. Apologies for previously forgetting to sign in first (hence the anonymous edit).


 * No problem. Happy editing! - xC -  |  ☎  06:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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