User talk:Vernelangdon@cox.net

Welcome
Verne, please see WP:AUTO for our policy on autobiography. As far as I can see, every article you have created so far has been either autobiographical, promotional, or both. You may want to re-read the notice that on the edit form when you create a new page, which reads:
 * Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products; or articles written as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, may be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see Spam.

-- The Anome 05:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Is the article Verne Langdon autobiography?
Hi, Just a clarification - is the article Verne Langdon written by you (Verne Langdon)? Not just a coincidence of names, but actually an autobiography? Thanks Brian 16:51, 2 July 2006 (UTC)btball

Article is looking better
Hi, the article is looking better (IMHO). I'm still concerned about whether this is autobiography or not. Can you please let me know? Thanks, Brian 16:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)btball

The article is not an autobiography. I am Mike Donaldson, archivist for Verne Langdon, Jaye P. Morgan, and other such personages. I use the vernelangdon@cox.net email address because I also work for the Dejavu Record Company and Electric Lemon Record Company which are VL enterprises. Thank you for youir consideration of my articles. - MD

SPAM or valid Wikipedia article?
Hi, I'm personally satisfied that the Verne Langdon article is ok at this point. It could still be improved and I made some changes as well as left some comments on its talk page. I share the concern voiced by Anome above that some of the articles you've posted are borderline at best. If they are just to promote a person, product or service then they really aren't appropriate here. As I said, I think the Verne Langdon article is ok now, but some other editor might propose it for deletion. Some of the other articles you've posted seem a little thin on the notability requirement. Brian 16:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)btball

Your articles
I've just gone through a number of the articles you posted --- and they could all use some wikification. You seem to be getting the hang of it, based on the Verne article, but it would be really useful if you read the Manual of Style and How to write a great article if you haven't already done so. You might also look at some of the Featured articles to see what is considered the best of Wikipedia. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Brian 16:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)btball

Your request for feedback
Hi there. You left a message for Brian at Requests for feedback. That page is actually for soliciting advice and for collaborating on articles that need feedback from more experienced editors. If I'm understanding the message right, you intended it for Brian only. To leave messages for particular users, each user has a Talk page (like this one attached to your user account). These can be reached by finding the user's User page (usually by clicking their name in their signature at the end of a comment they leave, as you can see for me at the end of this message), and once there clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of their User page to reach their User Talk page. As a shortcut I've provided a link to Brian's Talk page for you: User talk:Btball. ("Brian" is how he signs his comments, but his username is actually "Btball". Clicking his signature goes to the right place, though.)

If you have any questions in the future, Questions is the right public page to find help. If you have any immediate questions about this or something else, you can also reach me at my talk page (User talk:Saxifrage, which can also be reached by clicking the pencil in my signature) and leave a message at the bottom of the page there.

There's a bit of a learning curve to Wikipedia, but working together with others I'm sure you can get the hang of it. The nice thing about Wikipedia is that we can focus on our strengths and, with good communication, others will take care of the rest with their own strengths. Cheers! &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 17:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Verne Langdon
I notice that most of the text of Verne Langdon is in the past tense. Is this because those things are in the past (as in, he no longer co-owns the monster mask company?), or because he's died? From what I can see online he seems to be alive still. In that case, it would be an improvement to the article to have a birthdate as well. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 07:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Please respond
If you don't respond to people's attempts to communicate, it is very hard to collaborate on articles. Just edit this page here and add your reply after mine. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 16:51, 8 July 2006 (UTC) --

Saxifrage:

I am very sorry, I just got back from visiting my family in Tallahassee and just settling down to work again. Verne Langdon is very much alive as you will see by my update on his Wikipedia article. He is currently in production with American comedian Jonathan Winters on a single track CD "Old Folks" to be released almost immediately, and is at the moment in Philadelphia working on a project with James Warren, also one of his collaborators. I'm VERY new to Wikipedia, and to say the least "slow". But I'm working hard on getting more skilled. Thanks for your patience.

- Mike Donaldson, Archivist Associate Producer "Jaye P. Morgan Lately!" Dejavu Record Company (a VL company)


 * Not a problem! I was hoping to mentor you a bit, or at least point out a few resources for getting up to speed. Nothing at Wikipedia is ever an emergency, so don't worry about being on-time or anything. We have all the time in the world to work on this encyclopedia project, so we can take our time.
 * As for helping you get up to speed, in particular, some of the subjects you've created articles about are of borderline or questionable notability. So, familiarising yourself with the notability guidelines for people at Notability (people) will give you the information you need to get the right information into articles of people who are truly notable, and to avoid the frustration of putting work into an article that will just be deleted as non-notable further down the line. When working on articles, keep in mind that not everyone and everything is significant enough to deserve a whole article of their own, and not everything and everyone mentioned in an article needs to have a link. Many people are only significant as passing mentions in an article about something they were involved in, and those shouldn't be linked or have articles made for them.
 * Another resource I wanted to show you was our style guide at Manual of Style. When someone says they are "wikifying" an article in the edit summary, they usually mean they're making style changes to bring it into line with our other articles.
 * A couple of tips that might immediately help. Articles are expected to read as prose, but not as stories. There's a fine line in between that makes an article "sound" good. Other well-established articles such as George W. Bush, Leonardo Da Vinci, and others are good examples of the "voice" that Wikipedia uses. Specific tips for this are:
 * Start the article by saying "Name of person is/was "... and give a brief description of what they are (painter, director, etc). Square brackets shouldn't be used, and it should be prose. Make it the first paragraph, not just a line with a birth date in isolation.
 * Try not to break it up into too many paragraphs. The fewer, more well-integrated paragraphs, the better it reads.
 * Use the discussion pages of article to communicate with other editors. More experienced editors will be more than happy to add their expertise to help you with your edits. (You can get to the discussion/talk page by clicking the "discussion" tab at the top of articles.)
 * That should get you started. Finally, don't hesitate to ask questions! You can leave me questions here or at User talk:Saxifrage, which is my talk page and can also be reached by clicking the pencil in my signature. To reach more people to ask questions of, Questions gives a broad range of more special-purpose places to ask questions. And, as I mentioned, article-specific questions can be left on the talk/discussion pages of the article in question.

My talk page
Actually, that didn't go to my Talk page. A good try, but it missed the mark a bit. My talk page is at User talk:Saxifrage, while you left the message at SAXIFRAGE TALK PAGE. Click the pencil after my name in my signature and you'll see my Talk page, or click my username and then the "discussion" tab at the top of the page that brings you to. You'll know you've found the right place because there are a lot of other messages for me there, and the title is "User talk:Saxifrage". In the meantime, I've moved the message you left to the right place. Shall you try again and I'll report back whether it works? (And don't worry, there's no rush.) &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 00:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * That message was at the right place! Talk pages are just like regular article pages: to "leave a new message", we just "edit" the page and add the new message at the bottom. If you'd left your old message as-is and added your new message right below it, that would have been exactly how it's done. So, next time you need to leave a message for someone, just find their talk page and edit it to add your message.
 * Talk pages also have a small extra convenience feature: beside the "edit this page" link, there should be a small tab with a plus sign on it. Clicking that will give you an empty window and a place to put a subject line. It will take what you edit there and seamlessly add it to the page as a new section with the title you had in the subject line. It's a good way to visually separate your new message from old ones.
 * As for the "pencil", between "Saxifrage" and the time-and-date stamp in my signature I have a small pencil icon that, when clicked, is a link directly to my Talk page. (It saves people from having to click my name to get to my user page and then having to click again there to get to my talk page.) If it's not showing up for you or looks like something else, then maybe your equipment can't show it. That's understandably confusing! However, you did find the right place without that small convenience, so no matter.
 * Anyway, congrats on finding the right place! &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 20:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Chris Bearde
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your creation of the article, Chris Bearde, but we cannot accept copyrighted text borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Please see Copyright problems for more information on this topic, or generally, Policies and guidelines. Please do not remove the copyright violation notice placed in the article or repost the suspected infringing text. However, if you would like to rewrite the article in your own words, follow the link in the posted notice to create a temporary subpage. If your new article is appropriate, and not a further copyright violation, the reviewing administrator will move that new article into place once the copyright status of the original has been resolved. Happy editing! Whpq 15:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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