User talk:Aarondm

Hello, Aarondm! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dave1185 (talk) 20:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Welcome, please take your time to read through the welcome page and be familar with WP:MOS & WP:NPOV. --Dave1185 (talk) 20:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

May 2008

First advice

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, you may not know that Wikipedia has a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Using different styles throughout the encyclopedia, as you did in Doug Wead, makes it harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Dave1185 (talk) 18:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Second advice

Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Doug Wead, without explaining the valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Dave1185 (talk) 19:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Third advice

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Doug Wead, you will be blocked from editing. Dave1185 (talk) 19:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Notice of potential 3RR violation

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Doug Wead. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Dave1185 (talk) 19:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Show proof

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions, including your edits to Doug Wead. However, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not be libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article, or any other Wikipedia page, must include proper sources. Thank you. Dave1185 (talk) 20:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

• Please do not attempt to add anymore improperly sourced information without citing a reliable source (WP:RS) as your reference. Continue to do so without heeding my advice will result in you being blocked from editing. --Dave1185 (talk) 20:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I would be happy to provide proof. Would you like an email or phone call from Doug? I currently handle his website and blog.

How can I prove that he has requested this?

Doug Wead

1. I am Doug's webmaster currently. i host dougwead.com. How can I prove to you that Doug has requested these changes? --Aarondm (talk) 20:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
2. Also I would like to know how I can post an image of Doug on his page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aarondm (talk • contribs) 20:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
3. Your response to my deleting material from the Doug Wead page is unwarranted. If you take a quick look at the page which does need an updated biography you will notice that 1/3 of the content of that page is an assault on the character of Doug Wead. The "Secret Taping" section is highly inaccurate and quotes only a single news source that is far from academic. Doug has asked me personally to correct the information on his page. How would you like me to provide proof? --Aarondm (talk) 20:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

• My friend, you came into Wikipedia and dived headlong into writing a living person's biography without first reading through the welcome page which I had provided to you at the top of this page to refer to, for all the resources and the finer points of writing or amending an article. Quite frankly, I am flabberghasted by your lack of courtesy without heeding my advice to research or proper citations before you started your edits. You did mentioned that you are the webmaster of his website and he has instructed you to edit this article, this can be both bad or good in the long run of this article as we wikipedians are guided by the principle of neutral point of view when editing articles, failing which would subject the article or us being placed under close scrutiny. I would suggest that you take your time to slowly read through the welcome page I had prepared for you, go through a few more articles like the list of Presidents of the United States pages, study them closely and note the way(s) they had been written (and the WP:MOS). When you feel you have grasped the whole idea of editing and you are ready, by all means start on your task of editing the "Doug Wead" article again. Is that really too much to ask of you? Another thing, I hate fragmented discussion so please keep this topic under this column as I do monitor your talkpage after I left my message here. We were all newbies here once, please ask if you have no idea how to go about doing things. Thank you. --Dave1185 (talk) 20:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

See my comments on this on the talk page.--Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 20:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems

Hello. Concerning your contribution, All the Presidents’ Children, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://search.barnesandnoble.com/All-the-Presidents-Children/Doug-Wead/e/9780743446334/?itm=2. As a copyright violation, All the Presidents’ Children appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. All the Presidents’ Children has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at Talk:All the Presidents’ Children and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:All the Presidents’ Children with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:All the Presidents’ Children.

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Cquan ^{(after the beep...)} 21:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

FINAL WARNING

Aaron Mills, you are now at the brink of getting BAN by an adminstrator here if you do not heed my advice and stop your nonsense this instant. I don't like to BITE newbies, please don't make me. --Dave1185 (talk) 21:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)