User talk:Restawhile

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Hello, Restawhile, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Help How to write a great article Manual of Style

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See WP:PIC tutorial
There's a tutorial for adding images to articles - read WP:PIC. The really, really short version is edit the page and replace the generic image with the name of your image (say Mermcover.jpg) where it says IMG= in the text. That will put the picture in the infobox at the side. Hope that helps. If you haven't done so already, read through the introduction at Help:Contents/Getting_started Delicious carbuncle (talk) 22:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Quick tip
I've replied to you on my talk page, but just wanted to mention that with the : to indent, don't put quotes around them, just type one colon for each level of indent you want. It's not smart enough to maintain the indent which is why most people tend to write in single paragraphs (or you can just add colons at the start of every paragraph). Regards. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 02:24, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
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Spam
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My apologies in advance
There are now enough reliable sources for a new section on Bellinghaus' various disputes with Monroe fans and collectors, so I have started one. I'm not sure that what I have added will be allowed to stay, based on a very aggressive enforcement of WP:BLP for that particular article, but it is properly sourced and, I like to think, fairly neutral. I have deliberately omitted mention of the attack website and of the restraining orders even though they are mentioned in reliable sources.

I know you will as usual be blamed for this, so let me apologise in advance. The article was too one-sided and self-promotional for me to let it stand as it was. Sorry. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:27, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi DC - I like what you did - but looks like again its all been toned down. Never mind. What really needs changing on his site is the bit about his "debunking the Travilla Exhibition". He absolutely did not get the exhibition shut down nor did he debunk it at all. He just says he did - very loudly. This is a genuine exhibition of genuine, historical articles of clothing designed by Travilla. Mark thinks everything, except his own stuff, is "fake". It is totally inaccurate to say he debunked the exhibition. It has just started in a new location. The original one that was shut down only to do with an issue to do with the Hilton wanting full and sole rights to the exhibition for an entire year, but the Travilla Estate wanted more flexibility, his blogs are chock full of lies and some have made their way to his page.

Restawhile (talk) 06:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)Restawhile


 * Furthermore, I cannot believe that self-proclaimed journalist Jennifer Dickinson (she has no actual education in this area) is allowed to have her articles sources on the Bellinghaus page as she is clearly one of his business partners and is not a proper or reliable source as anyone can write for the "PR Insider" website, its not a proper journalistic site at all.

Restawhile (talk) 06:18, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, the article written by J Dickinson is no longer even on line about the Travilla Exhibition so it can definitely be cleaned off the page and anything it supposedly supports should be removed.Restawhile (talk) 06:25, 18 November 2008 (UTC)Restawhile

Please see WP:DEADREF for what to do with dead links. WP:BLP is strictly enforced on all articles. See WP:BLPN. Sites without editorial oversight, i.e. ones to which anyone can post anything, are not normally suitable as wikipedia references.  Ty  07:00, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Restawhile, I'm trying to move the article towards something that is a little more balanced - please give me some time to get some agreement about the new content before we start looking at the self-sourced puffery. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 11:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:BLP
Study WP:BLP carefully. Do not make defamatory comments about people on wikipedia and link to sources which clearly fail WP:RS. This is a very serious matter. Continuation of this may lead to being blocked.  Ty  07:08, 18 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't really get it, am not much of a Wikipedian, but thanks for fixing the ref to Travilla on the Bellinghaus page. It now reads much more correctly. Restawhile (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I didn't notice you had so little editing experience, so overlook any harshness here, but we do have very strict policies regarding what can be posted anywhere on wikipedia - articles or talk pages - about living people. Material must come from a reliable source. Feel free to consult with me or any other established editor if you are not sure about this. You may email me if you wish. Please note that I am not interested in off-wikipedia disputes, only that which is relevant to the project. I performed a delete on your last but one edit for privacy reasons. I presume that you would wish this, but let me know if not.  Ty  07:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again Ty. In that case the talk section about Travilla on the Bellinghaus page is due for a good pruning as it is full of dead links to pr-inside articles and now irrelevant "fraudulent speak", which need removing or archiving? That's my interpretation of the Talk Page Guidelines anyway Restawhile (talk) 08:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You will have to be more specific. I can't see anything that is overtly problematic. See also WP:DEADREF.  Ty  09:11, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Guide to referencing
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Ref formatting
I've placed guide to referencing above. I've formatted your ref on Mark Bellinghaus. See. The mistake was a / at the end of the first ref tag. The / goes at the end of the closing ref tag. You don't need to give the ref a name, unless you are going to use it more than once, in which case it can be used as a short cut, instead of typing the whole ref out again. It doesn't go any harm though.  Ty  05:04, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Tyrenius, I think you've confused Restawhile with someone else. That wasn't their edit. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Links to your page
I gave up on keeping a link to your former page because the discussion was just becoming too toxic for me. I was going to restore the user box with a link to your main page, but then I saw that you had deleted it from my talk page. If you'd prefer that there's no mention of you at all, I'll just leave it as is. Thanks for your words of support. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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