User talk:Maniainc

February 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Mischa Barton. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute 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. I'm not sure why you keep undoing other edits; your version seems to be making only aesthetic changes. As a general stylistic rule, we do not capitalize "Film," "Stage," and "Television" as you have. I've reverted your changes, please discuss on the talk page before reverting further. GlassCobra 03:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These reversions are hardly nonsensical. You only seem to be changing the first few lines. As I said above, I'm not sure why you keep undoing other edits; your version seems to be making only aesthetic changes. As a general stylistic rule, we do not capitalize "Film," "Stage," and "Television" as you have. Please see Wikipedia's Manual of Style. GlassCobra 03:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mischa Barton

I have protected this page due to edit warring between you, GlassCobra, OverlordQ and JetLover. You and GlassCobra have both broken the three-revert rule I'm not blocking you or anyone else, but I was very close to doing so. Meanwhile, please read WP:COI, and if you do represent Ms. Barton, please see Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) for the correct procedure to follow if you feel her article is inaccurate. Stifle (talk) 09:31, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
and you must always:
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 15:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I did report the problem last night I beleive to the correct source. we are personally connected with Mischa Barton, and wish to add correct factual information to this page which will be substantiated by links. My understanding is that we surely have the right to do this, but we could not get past the first paragraph of the bio because it was immediately reverted. It would seem there are people monitoring the page constantly to prevent even the smallest addition. Surely this is contrary to Wikipedia guidelines? Why would we not be able to include that she is a stage actress in the first line of the bio? We have many details we wish to add, and there are also some factual corrections. We wish to edit the site today and will be open to any suggestions any one has as long as everything we write is not immediately reverted just for the sake of doing that.15:47, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Maniainc

Thanks for contacting me. Did you know you can type ~~~~ at the end of a message which will sign it with your name and the time and date?

There will be no editing of Mischa Barton for 10 days due to the revert war - it has been protected. In the meantime, why not discuss the edits you'd like to make at Talk:Mischa Barton?

Once the protection expires you are free to edit as you wish. Here are some pieces of advice on editing:

Use the manual of style. Rather than "Film, Stage and Television", write "film, stage and television". None of those words are proper nouns so they should not begin with a capital letter.
Cite your sources. Even if you are or personally know the subject of an article, material in Wikipedia is required to be verifiable. We aren't able to verify it unless you provide a source that everyone can access, whether that's a newspaper article, a website (which can be Mischa's website), a TV program, or a speech.
Don't just revert. The talk page is there for you to discuss any edits which are not agreed by all the editors at a page.

Thanks again for your message and I hope you enjoy editing here. Stifle (talk) 16:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]