User talk:Jean Henry

Important message at User_talk:Jean_Henry_Mead

I'm guessing that you and the user Jean Henry Mead are the same person. If so, please see an important message from me regarding copyright, at User_talk:Jean_Henry_Mead.

If you have lost your password for the other account, you can press the "Email new password" button on the login page to get a new one (provided that you previously gave Wikipedia a working email address for yourself).--greenrd 22:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello Jean Henry! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. 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 name 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! RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 21:43, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Building consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

John Mantley

Hi. Thanks for contributing the article on John Mantley. It is an excellent and very informative article. However, I was wondering if you could add some references to the article? These would be especially useful for the quotations that you have added and would contribute towards improving the article further. Thanks. ^Tom_Phil 22:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

TomPhil: Thank you for your complimentary feedback. All of the information for the article was gleaned from one interview with John Mantley. I'm not sure what you mean by "adding references." Please get back to me on that.

Reply re inappropriate editing

I am replying to your comment at User talk:Jean Henry Mead here, because I think you are more likely to notice this reply if I put it here.

As a matter of fact, I did not erase anything in the article you mentioned, as can be verified by looking at its History. I did edit the article, but the only thing I did to that article was to add some "tags" (commonly known on Wikipedia as templates) suggesting improvements, which is something that requires no particular special skill. I did not edit any of your text on that occasion.

You must understand that a founding principle of Wikipedia is that anyone can edit almost any article - and in the event of a dispute, Wikipedia policies such as Wikipedia:Verifiability are used to resolve them. We do not prohibit, and have never prohibited, non-experts editing the work of experts. If a random person has a contribution to make that accords with our policy and guidelines, then they can go ahead and make it. I'm sorry, but that's just the nature of Wikipedia, and has been since its inception. This is one of the main implications of the text "You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL" - present on every edit page.

If you can identify any instance where I have contributed in an inappropriate way which diminishes the quality of an article, or is uncivil, of course I would be happy to discuss it. However, please refrain from making any further inaccurate accusations.greenrd 00:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC) ______________________________________________________________________________

Greenrd: I wasn't accusing you of erasing and redirecting the Will Henry article to the heading "Henry Wilson Allen." It was Konczewski who did the deed. Allen was known by everyone as Will Henry (friends, readers, etc.) and few people knew his "real" name, which is why my article was labeled as his pseudonym. And few people knew him well enough to write accurately about his life, so Konczewski did the gifted writer a great disservice with his substituted paragraphs. Jean Henry 23:06, 23 April 2007 (MST)