User talk:Richard Stephen Sinclair

Dear Stuart Jamieson, Thanks for responding, but I do not want that info about me on the French Wiki, as it is causing problems for me and I do not like the picture either! I spent much time writing more to my 'Bandography' on the English Wiki, the day before, where there is more adequate and accurate information, last time I looked, better that this be translated into French and then put up on the French Wiki? don't you think It is a factual history of my life's work after all. Publishing false information about me, is a violation and gives me more work to do, writing to explain the wrongs and people think that the Wiki, as published information, is correct. So I can say, that the Wiki is just a sham, as anyone can edit my information.

Someone has put several of my musician friends, from a genre of music that's quite specialised, on facebook, with a Musician catagory page, with Wiki information. Most of those musicioans do not do facebook, because of all the problems it causes, invasion of an artists privacy, so that's ok. So I am due an explaination and to have that person revealed to me, for my personal security. Now that I am wanting to communicate to people on facebook, I should be able to take the right to my name and representation, in the correct catagory.

Anyone searching to find me on facebook, will look in the musician pages catagory first, so it is a Facebook violsation, that the people are not actually getting to me. Rather like having your mail diverted to somone else. Difficult to understand maybe, if you do not have a few thousand 'followers' from many parts of the world.

I have written to the Wiki legal department, Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, for some months to Facebook, got my facebook friends to also report the page, the Privacy authorities here in my country of residence and also the police force, who deal with fraud, Guardia di Finanza.

All I want is for this imposter page, using my name and picture, to be removed from facebook. Now I am wasting my time, Regards,

Richard Sinclair. Private email: (Redacted)


 * Richard, I appreciate your complaint that this is causing a problem for you, however that problem is down to Facebook not Wikipedia and blanking Wikipedia articles in order to fix the actions of Facebook is harmful to this encyclopaedia. (we have a specific guideline advising you not to do this POINT and french Wikipedia has a similar one fr:WP:POINT) While the French Wikipedia is slightly inaccurate you are right that the correct process is that the English article should be translated and copied across there are processes for this and I've put in a request fr:Discussion:Richard_Sinclair/Traduction in hopes it will happen for you - Blanking was not an appropriate solution in any case.
 * All those facebook pages based on wiki material have been put there by facebook they automatically copy content over from us with no action on our part - You can still create your own oficial facebook page and whilst it may be slow for specialised artists to build up a facebook fanbase that supersedes that, I can assure you from personal experience it is neither impossible nor even difficult.
 * If you dislike the picture, then feel free to provide our sister project Commons with a suitable replacement - note you will have to agree to release it under a creative commons license though, which means you give up some of your rights of ownership to the image, if you didn't take the picture with a timer/shutter release then you will also have to provide evidence to the OTRS team that the person who took the photograph did so under contract to you or released rights to the image to you so that you can re-license them. Doing so will help the encyclopaedia and it's coverage of you no end. Of course we want to help you, but there is no Fraud being committed here - it's just a process that Facebook has that all artists need to understand if they want use Facebook effectively. BTW when you finish writing just ad 4 tildes ~ and the wiki software will add an appropriate signature rather than giving your name and email each time. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 21:55, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello, this is Richard Sinclair (musician from Canterbury UK), now living in southern Italy. Is anybody out there still buying CDs? or going out to see live concerts? I wonder?

Facebook/Wikipedia
Richard,

I've reverted your edit to your biography on French Wikipedia. Please see the replies I've given at the Biographies of Living Persons Noticeboard here. if you need further advice, you can either continue the discussion there or follow the talk link after my name to talk to me personally and I'll try to give you further advice to resolve your problem. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 16:14, 24 January 2012 (UTC)