User talk:Pbjonathanesquire

June 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Conceptual art, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Please look at Wikipedia's notability requirements freshacconci talktalk 14:51, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, Pbjonathanesquire! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. 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 username 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! freshacconci talktalk 15:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Conceptual Video Art. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. freshacconci talktalk 20:27, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary for your edits. Thank you. freshacconci talktalk 20:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Darcy White

You really need to stop inserting this name in various articles. His notability has not been established. And if you are the artist himself, please read WP:COI. freshacconci talktalk 00:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Conceptual Video Art. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. freshacconci talktalk 00:10, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate your interest, and perhaps at some point Darcy White will become notable. He seems to be on his way. I do need to point out, however, that none of these articles are yours or mine. WP:OWN covers this. If it's not me, it will probably be someone else. An important aspect of Wikipedia is notability. All articles, especially about living people, need to be verifiable. If you're adding a name to an article, it needs to be properly sourced. Don't forget, there are thousands of young video artists out there. Why would one over any other be mentioned? The only criteria we can go by is notability and verifiable sources. Thanks. freshacconci talktalk 00:25, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

On Freshacconci's talk page in connection with Darcy White you have said "I think he is wonderful and people should know about him". Firstly, a particular person's interest is not a criterion which is accepted by Wikipedia for inclusion. Secondly, Wikipedia's policy is that it does not try to publicise a subject which is not already well known ("people should know about him"), but only records information which already has significant coverage in published works. In the same talk page comment you have written "you may restrict Darcy from other pages if you like, but for my own I humbly request that he stay on, all other edits are fair game". As Freshacconci has indicated above there is no such thing in Wikipedia as your page: whoever creates a page it becomes the property of the Wikimedia foundation, and the original creator of the page has no more right to the page than any other Wikipedia user, and no right to instruct other editors in this way. Whatever your personal opinion of Darcy White may be he is not notable in Wikipedia's sense of the word: please stop inserting references to him. JamesBWatson (talk) 07:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)