User talk:Melodram

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June 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Donald George has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \byoutube\.com (links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5lt43ytle). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections.
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Donald George[edit]

Wikipedia's Policy on the biographies of living persons does not allow the publication of details of the subject's family or residence without an inline citation to a reliable source. The claims to various honors and recognition in the article are not common knowledge, and if as you wrote in your edit summary, they are "found in multiple sources" then please provide them, not simply what George says about himself. And, please do not remove the maintenance tags until the problems they have highlighted have been addressed, either by you or another editor:

No other articles link to it.
There are no references from reliable sources which are independent of the subject apart from cherry-picked quotes of praise (copied from the subject's website without complete bibliographical information)
As a biography of a living person it needs further references and inline citations for the claims made
It does not conform to the Wikipedia manual of style and has virtually no internal links to other articles
It is written as a promotional CV not an encyclopedia article

Once you have written an article on Wikipedia, you no longer own it. It will always have to conform to Wikipedia's policies on content, style and formatting – not to the subject's desired image or marketing goals. Editors who continue to remove maintenance tags without a valid reason as you have done here, here, and here are subject to blocking.

Blocking can also result from repeatedly adding unsourced information about living people, i.e. the names of George's wife and daughter and where he lives as you did here, here, and here. If as wrote in your edit summary it is "necessary information", then it needs to appear minimally on one of his official web sites for verification. If you are writing this from "personal knowledge", it has no place in the article, and is a violation of one of wikipedia's core policies. Another editor asked you to please discuss these issues on the article talk page [1] and instead you simply reverted his edits without discussion or an edit summary [2]

If you have any affiliation whatsoever to the subject (either personal or professional), you must read and scrupulously follow the guidelines at: Wikipedia:Autobiography and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. The tone, content, and nature of your edits strongly suggest that you do have a conflict of interest, and so far you have violated just about all of the guidelines in that respect. Please read my comments on Talk: Donald George and respond to them rather than blindly reverting anything you don't like without discussion.

Relevant key policies and guidelines:

Voceditenore (talk) 15:24, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to assume you hadn't read my comments here before you once again re-added the material about the name of his wife and daughter. Wikipedia requires a reference for this. Please remove it or provide one. I notice that you once again the maintenance tag that the article reads like a promotional news release. There are are three separate editors who have tagged the article as being promotional and/or probably created by the subject himself. Trust me, it is very obvious to any neutral reader, and will continue to impact negatively on the subject's image until that issue is addressed, whether you remove the maintenance tags or not. Voceditenore (talk) 15:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]