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Hi, CharlieGillett, Welcome to Wikipedia!  

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Good luck. --A. B. (talk) 04:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply


A word of caution assuming you may be Charlie Gillett or else a very close relative or agent:

  • You're not supposed to be editing your own article (or that of a client or relative) except under unusual circumstances (libel, etc.). See:

What you can do is leave suggestions on the article's talk page at Talk:Charlie Gillett for a neutral 3rd party editor to consider adding. If you do that and get no feedback after a while, then feel free to leave me a note on my talk page at User talk:A. B.

Also, if in case you are Charlie Gillett, you should know that your article gets special treatment as the biography of a living person. Just like Tony Blair or George W. Bush, you don't get an exemption from critical comments in your article, but editors are required to be especially diligent in keeping their wording neutral and any assertions carefully backed up from "Reliable Sources". See this very strongly enforced policy for more information on your rights:

  • WP:BLP - Biographies of Living People

In any event, welcome to Wikipedia -- I wish I was in a location to hear your show -- I enjoy world music.

--A. B. (talk) 04:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)Reply