User talk:Bookmarkg
November 2015
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Hello, I'm EightTwoThreeFiveOneZeroSevenThreeOne. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Dennis Elsas seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Wikipedia articles need to written in plain disinterested English, and not the kind of promotional puffery you tried to insert into this article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an outlet for your marketing efforts. 823510731 (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
I picked up on the comment you left at User talk:Crystallizedcarbon. I'm afraid your changes to the article were written in an inappropriate style for an encyclopedia, and were unsourced.
You say you are very familiar with the career of Dennis Elsas and the rise of NYC radio, and I don't doubt that. But Wikipedia cannot accept material based on your personal knowledge, as it is not a publisher of original works. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and it should only aggregate information that has already been published elsewhere in reliable sources (see WP:CITE and WP:RS for how to do that). Essentially, everything (within reason) contained in an article must be capable of being verified by the reader by following up the cited sources, so even if you know something based on your own experience, if you can't find it already published in a reliable source then it can't go in.
Even if you do provide citations, you would still need to avoid what is often referred to here as WP:PEACOCK terms - a Wikipedia article must not be written in a way that praises its subject. So, for example, Wikipedia would define Dennis Elsas as "a New York City disc jockey", and not as "a cornerstone of New York Rock and Roll radio" - the former is a simple factual statement, while the latter is puffery. Much of your addition, unfortunately, was written in the latter style. Basically, leave out the emotion, the drama, and the punchy praise, and just state plain facts supported by reliable sources. 823510731 (talk) 10:34, 3 November 2015 (UTC)