Joannpowers

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September 2015

Hello, I'm I dream of horses. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one or more of your recent contributions to Music of Detroit because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 19:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tom Powers - Detroit - Musician Extraordinaire (September 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sam Sailor was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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-- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 09:43, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Joannpowers, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! -- Sam Sailor Talk! 09:43, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

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-- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 07:56, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation

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Joannpowers (talk) 21:35, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

I went to the teahouse and left text message that I am looking for someone with experience in adding an article to wikipedia - I need someone with experience to help me compose and cite references - Joannpowers (talk) 21:35, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi Joannpowers, I have responded to your question at the Teahouse. We need to figure out, first of all, whether an article about the Tom Powers you want to write about would be able to follow this policy. Feel free to respond either here or at the Teahouse, but whichever place you choose to respond, please copy and paste {{U|GrammarFascist}} somewhere in your response, so that Wikipedia's software will alert me that someone is talking to me. Thanks in advance, GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 22:27, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

To respond, click here, and add your response at the bottom of the window right after where you see two colons next to each other ::

So, if you wanted to start by saying "ok can I send u", then you'd type that right after the 2 colons so it looked like:
::ok can I send u — I hope I've made myself understood this time.

By the way, yes, you can simply list the information about the articles you have. Preferably, this would include, for each article:

• the title of the article
• the author of the article
• the date of the article
• the name of the newspaper the article appeared in
• if the article says "Associated Press", "Knight-Ridder" or "UPI" near the title
• the page number or numbers the article appeared on

I look forward to hearing back from you. Please do me one last favor and finish your response by typing "~~~~" at the end of what you have to say; the ~ key should be just left of the 1 at the top left-hand corner of your keyboard. —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 22:59, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Joannpowers, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Draft:Tom Powers (musician) has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:09, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to especially highlight this point from the message above:

"If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials."

The trouble is that Wikipedia can't simply accept that the person using the account "Joannpowers" here and the person who wrote the content on your husband's website is the same person. There is no way to tell, because anyone can make a Wikipedia user account and claim that.

I added my own paraphrasing of what you wrote on your husband's website in the draft of the article about Tom. This way, there is no apparent copyright violation. What I wrote will be a bit more dry than what you wrote on that site, and in a different style of English, but you can change it after I add it. In order to stay encyclopaedic, Wikipedia tries to be neutral about the subjects of its articles, hence the comparatively dry language that I use. Instead of describing him as "amazing" and "extraordinary" (which Wikipedia calls peacock language), I let the facts prove that in itself. Take a look at the articles of some other musicians as examples. I hope this helps. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 20:56, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

While you were looking for your article over on Wikidata, it appeared to me that you had difficulty using Wikipedia, so I took the liberty to resubmit the article for review. I'm not exactly sure how the review process works, but I'm pretty sure you can still add things to the article if you want. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 21:08, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

edit: I withdrew the submission I made because I saw that you were still going to list some newspaper dates as references in the article. Having more references would make it more likely to pass a review, on notability grounds. If you want, you can just list them here on this talk page and I can add them to the article. Or you can read Help:Referencing for beginners to see how to do this yourself (putting the newspaper names, headlines, authors, and dates at the bottom of the article is fine). --BurritoBazooka (talk) 23:28, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi Joann,

I saw your note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council. I know that Wikipedia is a complicated and confusing place. I don't know what the notability standards are for musicians, so I can't help directly. ("Notability" is our jargon for deciding whether a subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone page. As I'm sure you know, there's a huge range among musicians, from world-famous to the garage band that's still trying to get their first paid performance, and the line has to be drawn somewhere in between. Also, we sometimes think that an album is more notable than the performer [or the other way around].) The most specific list is at WP:MUSIC, and if I understand things correctly, the second item in the WP:MUSBIO section is the one you'll want to check first.

So instead of being actually useful ;-)  I want to suggest that you stop by Wikipedia:Teahouse to ask for help. The Teahouse is a group of editors who specialize in helping new contributors like yourself, and they might know the right answers to your questions. Good luck, WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:07, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

This says "One of the cuts from his first album, "Love & Learn", hit the Billboard 100 charts". I think what you need to do next is to find the name of that song and a reliable source that proves it was on the Billboard 100 charts.

I'll update the page to explain about the state song. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:10, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Joan!

(Charles R. Knight, 1922)

Joan, I wish you and those dear to you golden days of love and joy in a Happy New Year 2016! Best regards, Sam Sailor Talk! 03:02, 2 January 2016 (UTC) Pass on! Send this greeting by adding {{subst:User:Sam Sailor/Templates/HappyNewYear}} to user talk pages. Automatic level-2 heading and auto-signing included.

(Unknown artist, Norway, 1916)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 01:32, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Tom Powers (musician) concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Tom Powers (musician)

Hello, Joannpowers. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Tom Powers".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 07:15, 26 May 2016 (UTC)