User talk:ReggieHerc

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Hi ReggieHerc, unfortunately other editors have had to revert your contributions to articles. I've had a look at your edits and you are adding unsourced and unverifiable information about living people and this is unacceptable on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a cornerstone policy known as Biographies of Living People policy and it requires that information about living persons must be able to be sourced to reliable, secondary, published sources (such as a newspaper, journal article, etc). We also only report what reliable, published sources have already published and we don't engage in any kind of original reporting or publishing personal or first hand knowledge. I have posted a welcome message above which includes links to some introductory pages but it's important that you only add information that has been published by reliable sources first. Additionally, adding information about Paul Yalen to other artist's articles is not really helpful and not likely to be accepted. The problem is that someone like Sid Bernstein has worked with many entertainers and we can't list all of them or the article would be an unmanageable mess, so we only mention a small number of those who are notable and whose connection can be verified by reliable published sources. Likewise, I'm sure Clive Davis declined to help a number of artists who sent him their recordings and unless it's a notable incident verifiable by published sources, it's just not suitable for Wikipedia's article on Clive Davis. And I'm sure that Kenny Rogers' manager passed on many songs, as most artists' management do so in search of the right song for their client's next album and, again, unless it's notable and supported by sources it's not suitable for Rogers article. Please just be very careful that you have published sources, such as newspaper or journal articles, for the information you add. This is very important here especially pertaining to living persons and you are likely to end up being blocked if you continue adding unsourced information about living persons to articles. Regards, Sarah 01:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)