User talk:ThirdPicardy

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Re: Charles Boguinia
Hello ThirdPicardy I have added projects Art, Biographies, to your article. You may wish to join them, check their to-do, and meet new people with interest in these topics. Cheers, --Gryllida (talk) 01:21, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you please shorten the article to one paragraph only. It is currently too large for working on it efficiently. And you need to remove opinions such as "become a musician by the most unlikely path". Leave only 1-2 paragraphs please and we can improve them, then we will be able to restore additional content from the article history.
 * Remove external links from the article body also please. They go to an external links section at the end.
 * These two requests are urgent, in the present form the article is not very encyclopedic and may be tagged for deletion. --Gryllida (talk) 01:23, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * At my talk page you said, "hi Gryllida,
 * thank you for the feedback, really appreciate the helpful suggestions, i shortened and removed the external links
 * cheers,ThirdPicardy — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThirdPicardy (talk • contribs) 01:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC) "
 * This looks better now. Smiley.svg Thank you a lot for these changes. I really appreciate it. --Gryllida (talk) 04:06, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Charles Boguinia
Hello, ThirdPicardy,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Charles Boguinia should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Charles Boguinia.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Dom from Paris (talk) 09:30, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Re: Help with Deletion flag
Hi ThirdPicardy,

At my talk page you wrote,


 * "Hi Gryllida,
 * I was wondering if you could please help me, the article I am working on was flagged for deletion. Thank you for your help on the page, and your edit suggestions, I am continuing to edit it, it has WP:HASREFS and WP:MANYLINKS and meets the WP:BIO criteria, as well as the WP:GNG, the sources are in fact verifiable in reliable sources. Would you help me and consider voicing your support in keeping the article, ""Keep"" comment to the deletion discussion? I notice the "delete" comments are posted by musicians/DJ who are may be biased. This Russian American composer and pianist, certainly meets the criteria for keeping the article. I would really appreciate your help and support. dhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Charles_Boguinia — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThirdPicardy (talk • contribs) 18:14, 6 December 2018 (UTC) "

The best way to improve the article is by searching sources at Google News, Google Books, etc which are not affiliated with the subject. There is no problem with article length it can be 2-3 paragraphs long or more.

I think you should discuss the possibility of moving the article to the Draft namespace, as there you may have more time for completing it. Please ask about this at the deletion discussion.

Please seek assistance of the Art and Biographies projects which I linked above as they know the topic well and may be able to offer help. --Gryllida (talk) 20:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

December 2018
Hello ThirdPicardy. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:ThirdPicardy. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. — billinghurst  sDrewth  09:52, 7 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Billinghurst, thank you for you message, no I am definitely not a paid editor. I am a regular visiter with interests in contemporary classical music and have wanted to be a part of the wiki community. It’s a fantastic source that provides insightful information, as it welcomes everyone to contribute I also want to share the topics that are of interest to the contemporary music community. I’m new to wikipedia and learning how to use it. May I ask for you help with the process, I do not want to be turned away from Wikipedia, and would like to continue collaborating on articles time to time. There is always room for improvement, we as a community already contributed a lot to this article and sources, and this is what it’s all about. Thank you for your help. - ThirdPicardy — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThirdPicardy (talk • contribs) 21:32, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * As another reply, may I extend to you my warmest welcome!, and if you need some assistance in making contributions I may be able to provide links to guidance or offer a little advice. cygnis insignis 03:28, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

If you don't mind me saying so, I don't find that response credible. From your uploads at Commons you claim to be the photographer of images that show a clear relationship to brothers of the Boguinia family over numbers of years. Here at enWP you write and rewrite articles about members of the family. So I would suggest that an open conversation declaring your interests rather than this apparent game-play may lead to a more respectful conversation. I guide you to articles like — billinghurst  sDrewth  00:49, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:Autobiography
 * WP:Conflict of Interest
 * WP:Paid editing