Bojarsjk

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Mayte Garcia

Hi Bojarsjk. I'm very confused by your attempts to change Mayte Garcia. Could you explain? Do you realize that her book is already being used for the content you've been changing? --Ronz (talk) 04:14, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Ronz,

The reason I’m trying to make these changes is because there are some inaccuracies on this page. For starters: Mayte Garcia was not sixteen on the “Diamonds and Pearls” tour. She was eighteen. She was born Nov 1973 and turned eighteen in Nov 1991. She talks about being hired for the “Diamonds and Pearls” tour when she was eighteen in her book.

Secondly, Mayte Garcia never moved into Paisley Park, and she never says she does in her book. When she moved to Minneapolis, Prince set her up with her own apartment. He became her guardian for a brief period after she graduated high school because she was a few months shy of her 18th birthday and she wanted to travel to LA to work on videos. She traveled back and forth between LA, Minneapolis and Germany, where she lived with her parents. She also graduated high school in Germany. It even says so in another section on this page.

I think it’s important that information is as clear and accurate as possible. Therefore, I believe it needs to be made clear that: a) Mayte Garcia did not live in Paisley Park, and she never says she does in her book. I can site page numbers if you like; b) Mayte Garcia was eighteen years old on the “Diamonds and Pearls” tour; and c) Mayte Garcia had her own apartment in Minneapolis until she and Prince got married. Once again, I can site specific page numbers of her book if you’d like, especially the part where he proposed over the phone and it took her by surprise since the most that she had hoped was that he would ask her to move in with him (pg. 181).

Hope this clears it up, and I hope we can get on the same page with the necessary edits for this page. Bojarsjk (talk) 09:03, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for responding.

There have been ongoing disputes about this, so I want to make sure that we're not introducing anything that won't hold up.

Citing page numbers are almost a necessity, while short quotes would help as well.

Thanks again. --Ronz (talk) 15:36, 13 March 2019 (UTC)