Brudger

The note you left on my page

I have put a copy of the note you left on my page below as this discussion will concern you more then it concerns me.

(refactored from User talk:Richard-of-Earth)

You have blocked my updating of the page on Alice Diamond. The biographical information in the page has been taken from my book Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants which I listed as a source. I am the author who uncovered the history of the Forty Elephants gang and significantly enlarged the page on Alice Diamond. Now that you have removed my update and source you have created a less than complete page and you have left sources which are credited with my information instead of crediting it to me. Please reinstate the changes or take the page down. Please reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brudger (talk • contribs) 17:00, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! Please know we are thrilled to have a published author contributing to Wikipedia. I have added your book as a citation to the first line of the article as I assume that information is in your book. You are welcome to contribute and cite your books. (See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Citing yourself.) Please do not include any promotional like statements in the articles. (See WP:PLUG) If you use the template:cite book or template:ISBN in your references the ISBN will link to a book sources page that has links to Amazon for your book. (e.g. {{ISBN|978-1-908479-84-6}} produces ISBN 978-1-908479-84-6.)

Your articles should cite other sources than just your books. In addition to citing your book, your should cite where your information came from.

Consider creating your user page declaring that you are an author and that the articles you edit are in your specialty.

When posting to talk pages, Use the "new section" tab at the top to create a new discussion and add a title/subject/headline to the discussion. Also add 4 tilde marks (~~~~ to the end to sign your posts. Use colons (":") at the beginning of a paragraph to indent.

Again welcome to Wikipedia. There are templates that get added to new user pages welcoming them, but somehow you didn't get one. See Category:Welcome templates to browse the different ones as they have useful links. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 20:46, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

(refactored from User talk:Richard-of-Earth)

Thank you for replying and re-installing my source. I have contributed frequently to Wiki pages, sometimes receiving warning notices for putting up correct information. I realise editing Wikipedia can be difficult and puts demands on contributors to be more informed how to make changes. All of my edits have been in 'good faith' and I would appreciate it if the warning notices could be removed from my page. I am currently intending to expand a stub on Kate Meyrick, but I certainly do not want another warning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brudger (talk • contribs) 11:33, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

I've removed the warnings notices, as you requested, see new section "Removed warnings" below. Paul August ☎ 13:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

To avoid that, avoid any mention of you or your books in the prose of the article. You can cite them as a source, but mentioning them in the article looks like self promotion.

The people who edit Wikipedia prefer that every factoid be attributed to a source. So if you add to an article "The sky is falling.", you should enter:

The sky is falling.<ref>Chicken Little</ref>

Resulting in:

The sky is falling.

and in the reference section:

This is called inline citation. It is preferable that multiple sources be used to insure the material of the article is not just one persons viewpoint and that the subject matter is notable enough to warrant inclusion. That said, there are lots of articles with only one or two sources. Please try to include newspaper articles and other books as sources as well as your books. Anything you used as a source in writing your books would be good.

Please add to the Kate Meyrick article and do not worry about the warnings. They are just warnings and anyone can put them on your page. The people who have the authority to block you from editing are quite reasonable and will recognize good faith when they see it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 21:09, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

(refactored from User talk:Richard-of-Earth)

OK, got it. Brian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brudger (talk • contribs) 12:02, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Majora (talk) 21:24, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

This has been archived with no action taken at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive944#User:Brudger if you wish to review it. (Do not add to it now that it has been archived.) Richard-of-Earth (talk) 22:37, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Removed warnings

Hi Brian, welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your contributions. I've removed the warnings, from this page, as you requested above. Once you've read, and perhaps responded to them, you may remove any comments posted on this page, as you see fit, see WP:userpage. Regards, Paul August ☎ 13:41, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Your recent edit to Kate Meyrick

Thank you for this edit. Can you tell us which newspaper? Do you have the article date and perhaps page number? It is OK if your do not. I will put a citation needed tag on it and somebody else will look it up. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 07:13, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

(refactored from User talk:Richard-of-Earth)

Source given, hope it's now OK.

Brian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brudger (talk • contribs) 19:07, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes much better. I was able to find the exact date and fill out the citation. I merged your additions with the upper part of the article. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 21:17, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Mary 'Polly' Carr moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Mary 'Polly' Carr, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. ... discospinster _talk 16:22, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Mary 'Polly' Carr

Hello, Brudger. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Mary 'Polly' Carr".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia 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}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:40, 28 November 2020 (UTC)