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Summary of 2017- current comments

I am occasionally looking at Navajo and Southwestern history pages. Most of my edits and monitoring involve pages linked to Lake Street Dive.

- Created a page for Bridget Kearney. Updated content. Added links from other pages.
- Found old LSD picture, cropped it to show just BK
- Created album page, Won't Let You Down (Bridget Kearney album)
- Added a page for Lake Street Dive's 2018 CD Free Yourself Up (Album). Got the usual squawks about the album cover picture from quick clickers. Added links from other pages.
- Tried to update Rachael_Price page. Had great help from other editors.

Summary of 2006-2016 comments

Once in a while I like to submit pictures. And while I do not intentionally try to violated copyrights, sometimes I have and sometimes I did not initially document the source and apply the correct template.
- Image:Annang Map 1950d.jpg resolved by documentation
- Image:Nasa Horn.JPG believed I applied the correct tag
- Image:Peace Corps stamp.jpg Bot is wrong but not important to me [USPS rights and permissions
- Image:Franconia College Letterhead05p.gif Used on my userpage, put something that looked like the logo instead.
- Image:MoodleUser f2.png The old Moodle user avatar, bot won.
- Image:Wsico.PNG was in issue in 2007, did not use.
- File:OBrien WilliamL General Court NH 2011.jpg This image came from NH.gov, since I don't like him, I let the image be deleted.
- File:Liveatthelizardlounge.jpg image from a record company album cover. Gave up
- File:LakeStreetDiveBand.jpe my artistic collage of pictures, deleted
There were some page comments
- Ugly American page, in 2006 had a discussion about the book, what started as a disagreement turned into an agreement
- Apache page, suggested more references be added in 2007. I did.
- Edmund Quincy (emigrant) page nonimated for speedy deletion 2008. This scared me and I let it be deleted. In 2009 the page Edmund Quincy (1602–1636) was created and evidently never nonimated for speedy deletion:)
- A discussion in 2009 about terminated tribes
- A notice that I used a link to a disambiguation page Fort Apache in 1015

More recent entries

2016 Proposed deletion and Nomination for deletion of Carmelite Sarah Brewer

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Hello, Rcollman. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Carmelite Sarah Brewer, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want Carmelite Sarah Brewer to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

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Thanks, Meatsgains (talk) 15:51, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- Nomination of Carmelite Sarah Brewer for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Carmelite Sarah Brewer is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carmelite Sarah Brewer until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Meatsgains (talk) 17:42, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for creating the article. I have edited, added materials and documented as much information as I could find. As I am in Mexico, I do not always have access to the same sources. The items which I could not substantiate with sources available to me, I marked with citation needed templates. However, there should be far and away, sufficient notability shown for the article to be kept, IMO. Good luck. Please feel free to ping me if you have questions with anything I did. SusunW (talk) 00:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Susun. I am in the middle a intense work schedule. I will take a look at what has happened to the page. Rcollman (talk) 01: 32, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Use of IMDB as source on John Shelton (actor) page

I noticed that you added information to the John Shelton (actor) article, using IMDB in the citation. That citation caught my attention because it seems to contradict Wikipedia's guideline: "IMDb may not be a reliable source for film and television information and is generally only cited as an external link." I learned that principle the hard way, after being chastised for using IMDB as a source for some of my early work on Wikipedia.

I'm also curious about the source of the information about the two spouses that you added to the infobox. Eddie Blick (talk) 14:49, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Eddie. Claim ignorance about IMDB. The other source appeared to me to be weak but I left it. I will dig some more to come up with different cites. I spent some serious time on Ancestry.com There were notices in Billboard. I will post a note on the John Shelton (actor) talk page. I can see that IMDB as a reference would be similar to one of my students citing Wikipedia :) I do appreciate sharing your experience and helping me avoid the vicious slashes of the IMDB bots (May they troll in peace)!!!Rcollman (talk) 02:54, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Much improved!

You did a good job of beefing up your references; I have removed the "refimprove" template as a result. Your additional research paid off in documenting Shelton's marriages, especially.

I like your comment on my talk page, "I have worked with oral history and decided to assume that some sort of documentation could be found for all five." That kind of approach results in better documentation, which usually means better articles. Good research is good research, whether it is applied to oral history or articles for Wikipedia. Keep up the good work! Eddie Blick (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Format for citations

I suggest that you try to use the "cite ..." templates as much as possible for your citations. I see that you did that in references 8 and 9. Although it's not exactly wrong to form citations as you did the others, the ones created using the templates look better. (Editors have at times "corrected" my articles in which I used a citation style like most of yours.) Along with that, citations for articles in newspapers and magazines (as in your #3 and #4) should include the article's headline and (if applicable) the writer's name. The "News" template works for both newspapers and magazines, although I sometimes use the "Journal" template for magazines. Just some food for thought as you continue to progress on Wikipedia. Eddie Blick (talk) 19:19, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another confession, sometimes I am lazy or set my priorities to use ref and then go back and insert a template. I know in the long run it is more time, but indicating something that is good documentation is better than nothing. I have been going back to make sure my refs, even others, are turned into templates. I have a user page subpage User:Rcollman/common_references where I put my common citations and a couple of templates. Guess I should add some for a generic journals, newspaper and magazine. I will keep pecking away at this and other pages. Thanks for taking the time to give positive feedback. Rcollman (talk) 14:29, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Album style guide

Check out the WP:MOSALBUM album style guide for better album article formatting. thanks --Jennica✿ / ^talk 08:57, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes expecting a template. Very educational. I usually do not do albums and am very focused upon a few artists. For a newbie I think I did pretty good. I used (against recommendations) Bad Self PortraThanksRcollman (talk) 01:05, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adam Matthew database

Apologies for the delay in responding to your request. I have now emailed you the necessary documentation. --Peripatetic (talk) 15:36, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Holidays Rule (Vol 2)

The only good part about this tag, is that somebody actually read my rebuttal, and deleted the Holiday Rule (album) page that I used as a format for Holiday Rules 2. Not worth arguing about.

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A tag has been placed on Holidays Rule (Vol 2) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/holidays-rule-volume-2-0. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Interesting. First, this is not my first article as stated in the tag, read my contribution list. Second, You did not really do your homework but merely looked at one of my citation. The other citation used similar words. Those words, which I incorrectly attributed to Paul M, were the copyrighted words of Capitol Records. I just bought the mp3 version but believe these are album notes. Thirdly, I suggest you look at Holiday Rules. I followed the same format on Vol 2, with the similar wording, figuring if that format had been around since 2012 on wikipedia it was ok. Unlike the earlier version, I at least tried to cite the words. I am going to bring back the page, delete the comments and give just the facts without comments. I am trying hard to be polite. Rcollman (talk) 02:15, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:LakeStreetDive-free yourself up.jpg

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Collman's comment: I hate this kind of quick bot. Duh, made me put it back because it is an ALBUM COVER! Duh bot, an ignorant human has to load the image in wikicommons BEFORE the human can be enlighted as to the link to place in the wikipedia page. Whew, I feel so much better now. Rcollman (talk) 16:07, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Free Yourself UP

@TomCat4680: Thanks, Please delete that page. My task this morning was to figure out how to tag it for deletion. Appreciate the very polite message. Nice. Rcollman (talk) 11:51, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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