User talk:Shilohnoone

May 2020
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Beggars Opera (band)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 08:42, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Shilohnoone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Beggars Opera (band), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  14:15, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Shilohnoone


A tag has been placed on User:Shilohnoone requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Theroadislong (talk) 09:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Subject matter expertise like yours is valued, especially on an under-covered field
But an encyclopedia has NO place for language such as you put into the Beggars Opera article. We don't want "rock journalism" mannerisms here; the style should be more Encyclopedia Britannica and less Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, or even Paul Cowan or Neil McCormick. Simple, verifiable facts, without adjectives or adverbs or above all else superlatives. -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  14:15, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

You clearly do not know how Wikipedia works
The people asking for donations are the Wikimedia Foundation, who help keep this site online. Everything else, including your edits being removed is done by volunteers such as myself and the other editors on your page. That's it. Leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. Ed6767 (talk) 16:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia
I have to echo the comments above. We welcome your edits, but as with any system in the world, things are expected to be done in a particular way. For Wikipedia, this way has been established for nearly two decades. To come here and try to dramatically change the way we do things, and then complain because we don't accept it? It's as if a person comes into town, says the town has been doing everything wrong, starts changing everything without talking with anybody about it, and then complains when the people don't love his changes. I'm sure you can understand the problem. We have rules here, and those rules exist to create a quality product and to allow a very large group of volunteers work in concert with each other to produce the best outcome. Nobody is saying your contributions are unwelcome. We are saying they need to follow the established policies and guidelines. I would be happy to help you get some content added to the project, inline with such guidelines and policies.

Understand; there is no "in-house staff". We are all volunteers here. Employees of the Wikimedia project do not edit this project in their role as employees. A few (a very few) edit the project in their off hours as volunteers. None of us are paid for our work here. None.

I'm sorry you're having an unpleasant experience here. I can help you get past this. Please, talk with us and tell us what material you think should be added and to what article. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 16:45, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

 * You also have responses here. Please do not ask the same question in multiple places.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:30, 21 July 2020 (UTC)