User talk:Tessa Souter

Billy Drummond

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I encourage you to "step back" for a second and take a break to look over the article before proceeding. I don't wish to "do battle" with you over the state of the article, but some of your changes are decidedly for the worse. I have attempted to update the discography using the information from your edits, but much of the other content you have added is unacceptable based on Wikipedia's guidelines about neutral point of view, and tone. Please respect these before continuing. Chubbles (talk) 21:03, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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her own lyrics to jazz arrangements of classical gems, and was picked by the London [[Times]]) as one of the Top Ten Jazz CDs of 2013. She also appears on legendary bassist [[Charnett Moffett]]'

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If...

If you really are Tessa Souter (I have no way of knowing for sure) you should familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's rules. There's plenty of documentation to keep you busy. One of the rules is WP discourages people from writing about themselves. You can find that at Wikipedia:Autobiography.
–Vmavanti (talk) 17:08, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I see this

Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict of interest editing and is strongly discouraged. Editing a biography about yourself is acceptable only if you are removing unambiguous vandalism or clear-cut and serious violations of our biography of living persons policy.

Wikipedia has gone through many prolonged disputes about the significance, factual accuracy, and neutrality of such articles.[1] Avoiding such editing keeps Wikipedia neutral and helps avoid pushing a particular point of view.

HOWEVER ... what I wrote is merely factual. It is also accurate and neutral. I deliberately avoided POV of any kind.

Reply...

Yes, I really am Tessa Souter. I deliberately did not flatter self or write any quotes or reviews. I merely added news and updated the CDs in the bio section. And corrected/elaborated on some information. I think you are allowed to do that. You are just not allowed to create your own profile right? But who are YOU? Sorry, but I don't know how to contact or respond to you except like this. I hope you get it. If you would like to email me my email is my first name at my website address. I can then verify that I am myself. Hopefully, you agree that it is reasonable to want to be able to edit/update a public profile about oneself.

Adding material to Wikipedia

All material in Wikipedia must be sourced. The material you entered in the Billy Drummond article was not. In the jazz project we have been following the trend of the rest of the site in adding citations to every sentence. If you need help with how to write, edit, add citations, find sources, and so on, let me know, click on my name, or read the documentation. Thanks.
–Vmavanti (talk) 17:19, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

Hi. Thank you again. I have now added the citations to every sentence that was added (I think only two). I tried clicking on your name but that doesn't seem to lead to anywhere that lets me talk to you other than like this. Again, I merely added neutral factual information to this article. And I do have my real name as my user name. I don't know who you are, though.

At the end of every message, we enter four tildes as a signature. Time and date appear automatically after you click "Publish". When you click on the user name, you are taken to that person's User Page. On the User Page, at the upper left, there is a tab where you can click on Talk for the person's Talk page. You can write to people there, though matters about articles belong on the Talk page of the particular article. It's not a big deal to me, but to some people it is. Every article has a Talk page for discussing that article. Also, "talk" appears next to the person's signature to take you to their Talk page.
–Vmavanti (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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Thanks for uploading File:Billy-Drummond-w-Grestch-ph-©-Roberto-Cifarelli.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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