User talk:Wordsandpictures

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Speedy deletion nomination of Katherine Blanc

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Please see WP:AUTHOR for details. Clubmarx (talk) 02:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Mel Blanc. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Managing a conflict of interest

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A {{connected contributor}} notice has been added at Talk:Mel Blanc to alert other editors to your declared conflict of interest. General Ization ^Talk 23:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Formal mediation has been requested

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You have a message

See the bottom of User talk:Guy Macon. <-- just click on the link --Guy Macon (talk) 00:17, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Blanc Communications

Hi! I am here to help walk you with editing Wikipedia regarding Blanc Communications. (This conversation started on my talk page, but I have moved it here). I am pretty sure that we can make it so that everyone is happy. Sorry that it took a couple of days to respond; I have been dealing with some personal issues that took a lot of time.

You can always contact me privately by going to me by clicking on this link,[1] but I prefer to do everything on public pages where anyone can review my actions.

I know that Wikipedia can be confusing for someone who ghasn't used it before. Please don't feel bad if you make any newbie mistakes. We all do.

Because others will be reading this, I am going to give some background, that you already know, along with my comments.

Wordsandpictures (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) claims to be Mel Blanc's daughter-in-law, Katherine Blanc, married to his son Noel,[2][3] and that together they are the estate of Mel Blanc.

I am pretty sure (correct me if I am wrong), this is the same person as the author I see at https://www.amazon.com/Katherine-Blanc/e/B001K8ZSVM

Wordsandpictures, if we ever need to use you as a source, we will have to confirm your identity. You would be surprised at how often a fan (or perhaps critic) of a particular celebrity pretends to be either that celebrity or a family member. No need for that now -- it looks like everything we want to do here can be verified with other sources -- but I just wanted you to know that we don't just assume that anyone claiming to be Katherine Blanc really is Katherine Blanc. You will thank us if you ever attact a stalker who pretend to be you.

Right off the bat, I see no problem at all with including more information on Blanc Communications on the Mel Blanc page. I am going to do a bit more research and make those edits myself later this evening. I may ask some more questions here as I do my research.

In the meantime, here is an excellent page that will help you: Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations.

More later. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:06, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation rejected

The request for formal mediation concerning Mel Blanc, to which you were listed as a party, has been declined. To read an explanation by the Mediation Committee for the rejection of this request, see the mediation request page, which will be deleted by an administrator after a reasonable time. Please direct questions relating to this request to the Chairman of the Committee, or to the mailing list. For more information on forms of dispute resolution, other than formal mediation, that are available, see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:15, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Mediation rejection followup

TransporterMan-

Thanks for letting me know about the rejected mediation request -- ah, I am such a newbie!

Several seasoned editors have expressed willingness to create a new edit of my original (botched) edit to the Mel Blanc page. Hopefully their expertise and unbiased edit will be approved. Again, thank you for the message.

wordsandpicturesWordsandpictures (talk) 21:01, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update

I just got the first two books I ordered:

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

Melvin the Mouth

MtM was, as I expected, geared for a much younger reader, but I did like it. Nice plot, good artwork. The bio in the back and the dust-jacket blurb are useful sources if I don't find the same information elsewhere. Later I will give it to a friend who has young children.

Thousand voices is fairly thick, so it might take me a few days to get a handle on it, depending on how good the index is.

Thanks for your patience. We have a saying around here; "we may be a bit slow, but we update a lot faster than Britannica!" --Guy Macon (talk) 14:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First, we thank you for purchasing the books; we hope you enjoy them! Although...Thousand Voices is quite a TOME, imo. ;)

In the hardcover edition of That's Not All Folks you can find a good reference to Mel Blanc's production company, Blanc Communications Corporation, on page 258.

In the print edition of Thousand Voices there's at least one reference to Blanc Communications Corp. on page 211 (and possibly a few more pages -- I haven't checked).

As for Melvin the Mouth and identifying me as Katherine Blanc: I can send you a pdf of my publishing contract with Charlesbridge. The contract clearly connects me--as daughter-in-law-- with the book, as it is a private legal document nearly impossible for anyone but myself and the publisher to possess it. Let me know if you wish to view the document (for verification purposes only, of course). wordsandpicturesWordsandpictures (talk) 17:14, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon package tracking says that That's Not All Folks is arriving today.

I see no need for you to verify your identity. I just wanted you to know that here at Wikipedia we know about imposters and would require identification before doing certain things that you wouldn't want us to do if we were talking to an imposter (example: using you as a source). Right now we are just working on improving the Mel Blanc page and using published sources; for that it doesn't matter who you are. I know all of this this sounds silly, and I figure that the chances that you aren't who you say you are are pretty much zero, but we have had dozens of new editors in the last few months claiming to be "the real Donald Trump". --Guy Macon (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]