User talk:Heidilaura

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American Girls

I'm having a certain amount of trouble understanding the various types of edits that are being made to this article? Removing this sentence, as you did, seems correct "She is a bully and is a really mean kid and everyone hates her." Other changes, such as the one right after you by anonymous IP 67.80.106.105 about Megan Duger discuss future events, give no edit justification, and seem to come from someone with inside Mattel information. [1] Then anonymous IP 71.232.8.174 deleted the Megan Duger information -- also with no edit justification. What's going on there?

I see from the history of your edits that you have been trying for some time to "remove speculation", "inappropriate commentary" and correcting factual errors about release dates. That's all to the good.

I assume you are just trying to hold back the tide, however your edits are not always given an explanation, and sometimes they are not correct. So, for example, you substituted my edit of "two years" with "2 years" -- which is contrary to the Wiki Manual of Style. In another place, you add the phrase "et cetera", which is also contrary to style. My Web editor flagged this word as being incorrect "facemold", and indeed, it is not in the unabridged Webster's Third dictionary. I changed it to the correct "face mold", and you changed it back again to the incorrect spelling.

I'm an experienced professional editor. This is a long article, where many people would apparently like to add their two cents. Is there some way we can reign in the really wild edits, without too much spinning of wheels? Right at the moment, I happen to be looking at the section "American Girl Stores". I'm not sure that information belongs in this article, or maybe even in Wikipedia at all. It's a pure advertisement statement, with no reference given.

Then there are statements such as this, which I look at and think: How could this be? "However, the prices have held steady with minimal increases over the company's 20+ year history." Piano non troppo (talk) 03:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your considered answer. If I can help in some way, let me know. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 04:08, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, I just had IP 67.80.106.105, who has made many poor edits to American Girl, blocked from editing. This 72 hour block will make it easier to have a longer block later, if they persist. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 20:43, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

American Girl

Hey Heidi, thanks for your efforts cleaning up that article. It is still much too long, in my opinion, and much too detailed, but you brought some sourcing to the article and that's a good start. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to have a List of American Girl dolls, to cut down on the clutter in the main article. What do you think?

I think that could help achieve the goal of brevity. So you're proposing linking out to a new section, in place of all the character descriptions, and moving those character descriptions to the new section? I would be careful to refer to them as American Girl Characters, so as to maintain a distinction between the actual named dolls that AG markets and the generic dolls of the JLY line. --Heidilaura (talk) 04:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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How about Bratz?

Hi, Heidilaura! I see you are still keeping American Girl in check. I don't know whether you can spare a few moments, but the Bratz article could use some help. What's odd? It doesn't seem to be the fans who are contributing, so much as people who are trying to trash them. Doesn't seem balanced, neutral. Best Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 06:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year

Hi! I don't know whether you'd be interested, but My Scene seems to have some of the same issues that American Girl does. Cheers, Piano non troppo (talk) 09:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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