User talk:Statute

August 2014
Hello, I'm Binksternet. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Years of Living Dangerously because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. ''Please do not promote just one of the many co-producers on the TV show. Emphasizing just one of them is promotional and it is also a violation of WP:NPOV. The text and sources would be better used on a biography article about her.'' Binksternet (talk) 20:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

I just reverted your change again at Years of Living Dangerously. Please use the Talk page there if you wish to join the conversation about this issue. Continuing to insist on an edit that has been objected to by other editors is disruptive editing and may result in your being blocked from editing. This is not a good way to start on Wikipedia. Please see WP:Edit warring for more information. -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:51, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Years of Living Dangerously
Hello. Thanks for your message on my Talk page, but the place you need to post is at the article's Talk page. There, you will see that two editors have already stated that it would be inappropriate for the article to list the producers. The long list of producers is, IMO, simply not encyclopedic. It appears to me that listing the names of these people would not improve the article, but in fact would make it worse, by distracting readers from getting to the *important information* about the TV series. We also do not list the writers, the directors of the episodes, or a host of other individuals who were far more involved with production than these "co-producers". Those people did important work on the series, but what our readers want to know about is what the show was about – what information it conveyed about climate change science and solutions, and how it conveyed that information (through the celebrity and journalist investigators). This encyclopedia is not the place for this list; you can find that sort of info on IBDB and other websites that have comprehensive lists of things about TV shows, or on the DVD's notes. For more information about what not to include in Wikipedia articles, see, for example, WP:RAWDATA and more generally WP:NOT. See also WP:BALASPS, and WP:TRIVIA. It seems fairly obvious here that you have a personal interest in Rena Shulsky David, so please also read WP:COI. If I may give you a piece of friendly advice, first edit some Wikipedia articles with which you have no personal connection, learn your way around Wikipedia and see our editing policies in practice. Then, in a few months, after you have learned a lot about contributing to the encyclopedia, if you still think we're wrong, then come back and persuade us on the article's talk page why this information would be a net positive in the article. That is, why readers would think that this list of names (or any of them) is helpful to their understanding about the TV series. -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:49, 29 August 2014 (UTC)