User talk:Amyanda2000

Guiding Light: Can anyone help?

I am a lifelong fan of Guiding Light. I was dismayed that their were so very few articles about the Bauer Family and Rick Bauer (Dr. Fredrick "Rick" Bauer") so I created them. However, now thay are tagged for deletion because notability has not been established. Perhaps somebody with more time and resources than me can establish nobability and save these articles. If the Bauer's are not notable, how can any soap character be notable? They were created to be the premiere family to the first soap and longest running program in broadcast history. I know that Guiding Light is strugging right now, but it is a show with a glorious history- the forerunner to the genre. Please help if you can! amyanda (talk) 22:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Current Project: Beth Raines from Guiding Light

Beth Spaulding Bauer

Part of wikiproject: soap operas - Trying to make this a good article, establishing notability for this long time Guiding Light character, and make a well rounded character with both a proper character history AND attention to other sections of the article. I spent a lot of time trying to build this up, and I know it still needs a lot of work. I would really appreciate some participation both on the article and the talk page. I'm feeling kind of lonely and I know I can't do this on my own. 208.53.116.182 (talk) 02:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC)amyanda2000[reply]

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Jennifer Rhodes

I added an entry to Talk:Jennifer Rhodes that you may want to respond to. — ApolloCreed ^{(comment) (talk)} 18:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: talk page

Well, you found my talk page. ;) Welcome to Wikipedia! I'd be happy to help you with any questions you have. You can edit my talk page or yours, and we'll have a little conversation. :) (I've replied on both your talk page and mine, by the way, to make sure you see my answer.) Hbackman 06:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't been very active in editing in quite some time. I am sorry because I'm having a hard time remembering how this convo started. Can you refresh my memory?

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On Cupid

I'd say BE BOLD and start working on the article in your user space (if you need help, just ask me :)) and we'll see if we can move it into the wiki. CaveatLector^Talk 19:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To start an article in your namespace, you would edit it under User:Amyanda2000/(name) so you'd create the page User:Amyanda2000/Cupid (holiday character) and then edit it up there before moving it to Cupid (holiday character). Hope this helps :) CaveatLector^Talk 19:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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And in the first mentioned context: "Hey, big O, you want to play beer pong at my place?" -"Yeah sure." -"Tough titty. You're not allowed over."

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One of the things to learn is that articles need sources. See WP:V and WP:RS. Also, you can create and edit articles unmolested in your user space. Just create a link User:Amyanda2000/like this and edit away. When the article is ready for introduction into the encyclopedia, you can move it there. And as for being a deletionist - I am following the guidelines about what should and should not be in the encyclopedia. A list of 2 lakes for a state with numerous great lakes looked like less than a half-hearted start. If you have much to contribute, and I truly hope that you do, when you start such an article, do so in user space until you have the time and expend the effort to muster a little more content or you can expect someone to nominate it. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:41, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice which is usefull and helpful but not manditory. Here is a quote from "Ignore all Rules"

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Personally, I don't think that the spirit of the rule is to delete articles before they have a chance, or articles that are created as stubs or even articles that are created by inexperienced, clumsy, or even inept contributers. The ineptitude of the contributer does not automatically speak to the encyclopedic nature or lack thereof of an article created by said inept editor. (assume good faith) Perhaps my article was was less than half-heartedly started, and I did very little except get the ball rolling, but what a fantastic ball it has become! Other editors have done an excellent job with it. If I had put it in my sandbox until I had more complete information and sources, it might never have gotten going. As it was, other people had the sources and were able to contribute and improve the article vastly, with just the smallest push in the right direction. Since the deletion was snowballed, I would think that you could see that you where in too much of a hurry to delete at least one article because it was not (as yet) up to standard. As I said, wikipedia is a collaborative effort. In my view that means that we compensate for each others shortcomings. I guess we all chose the rules that we most value and follow. In my case, I chose Be Bold (the first one that I was introduced to upon coming here) and I believe in improving substandard articles rather than deleting them. amyanda (talk) 03:31, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to The Secret Life of Bees. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Ward3001 (talk) 01:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This webpage that you cited as a source has nothing about themes and symbols. Please do not add the information again without a proper source. Continuing to add it without a proper source is considered vandalism. Thank you. Ward3001 (talk) 02:17, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the quote from the page:

"In this New York Times bestseller, a young girl's search for the truth about her mother leads her to three beekeeping sisters who take her into their mesmerizing world of bees and honey and of a mysterious Black Madonna. A novel about mothers and daughters and the women in our lives who become our true mothers. A story about the divine power of women and the transforming power of love."

Although the webpage does not explicitly use the words THEMES and SYMBOLS it states that this is what the book is about. A theme of a book is a larger idea expressed ("A novel about mothers and daughters... A story about the transforming power of love"). The quote also showes some of the symbols used to express the theme: bees, honey, Black Madonna.

It is not an incorrect summery to express and summerized this information as "themes and symbols". Personally, I think you are being overly pedantic, but would it prevent you from deleting the material if I changed the heading to "See Also"?

I have to admit, I am frustrated. It is not original reserch. It is not commentary. Saying "One of the themes of this story is motherhood using bees as symbolism" is another way of saying, "This is a story about motherhood and involving bees." Original reserch or commentary would be if I started writing about my own ideas of what the bees were symbols for. The fact that they were the tools that the author used to tell a story about motherhood is clear from the source. amyanda (talk) 02:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is synthesis of research to reach your own conclusions, also not allowed. If you find published reliable sources that discuss themes and symbols, you might be able to summarize that in the article. But you are taking a few bits and pieces of information and imposing your own interpretation. That, indeed, is original research. It's one thing for you to state that the author describes the book as being about "motherhood and involving bees". It's quite another thing for you to come to your own conclusion that the novel has "themes" or "symbols" of motherhood or bees; then it becomes your own conclusions. I also saw little or nothing about some of the "themes" or "symbols" you identified, making the stretch into your own interpretations even more pronounced. To state a book is "about" something is not equivalent to stating that those things are "themes" or "symbols". I could come up with a dozen or so different "themes and symbols". For example, I could use the fact that a jail is discussed at least twice in the book and then add my own interpretion that novel has a theme of "the atrocities of our penal system", but then I have stepped over the line into my own interpretion. Other editors might come up with hundreds more. If we allowed that the article would be nothing more than an overbloated list of "themes and symbols", all of it original or synthesized research. Now, if I find a reliable source that discusses how a theme in the novel relates to our penal system, then it might be appropriate to summarize that.

Sorry you're frustrated, but we have rules and guidelines. Wikipedia has no professional editorial oversight. It relies on editors to maintain its policies. Without that, this would not be an encyclopedia; it would be a huge mess of opinions. I have had to fight this battle many times on different articles. It is based on clear and unequivocal Wikipedia policy. If you disagree, I suggest that you raise the issues on the article's talk page, but don't add the information again without a clear consensus to do so, or with some solid, reliable sources that are unambiguous so that you don't add your own interpretations. For ideas on how to use published research to write about themes, look at articles identified as good articles on books or films. An example that comes to mind is Pulp Fiction (film); there are others. Ward3001 (talk) 14:56, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose I could have used the word "subjects" instead of themes in order to eliminate confusion, however:

theme THēm/ noun 1. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. "the theme of the sermon was reverence" synonyms: subject, topic, subject matter, matter, thesis, argument, text, burden, concern, thrust, message; More 2. amyanda (talk) 13:28, 19 September 2016 (UTC)amyamda2000[reply]

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