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September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Joyce DiDonato has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bblogspot\.com' (link(s): http://www.yankeediva.blogspot.com/) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 16:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Joyce DiDonato‎

I notice that you have been trying to improve the article on Joyce DiDonato‎. Some of the changes you have made however are not appropriate for wikipedia. The first being the copy pasted material from [1]. Wikipedia has a strict policy against using material that is identical or significantly similar to another source. This is viewed as a copywrite infringement and all such material must be immidiatly removed. Wikipedia also has strict policies on what is considered a reliable source. Sources must be independent from the subject in question and reliable. DiDonato's website and that of his managers or record labels is not viewed as a reliable source as it is not independent of the subject. I would suggest finding sources in newspapers and other reliable sources for use in the article. For more info see WP:Sources. Also, the language used in the edits you have made are too self promotional. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and the language must reflect that. Wikipedia is not meant to be used as a form of self promotion or advertisement. For more info see WP:What Wikipedia is not and WP:BIO. For an example of a quality article on an opera singer see Harolyn Blackwell. If you have any questions or problems feel free to contact me on my talk page.Nrswanson (talk) 02:23, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Your edits

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Please don't add links to your own site, we are not an advertising service. Discuss them on talkpages instead. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

User name

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: corporate names are not permited. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you.

Your counterproductive edits to articles on EMI artists

Hello EMIClassics, Adding overtly promotional material, complete with unsourced PR-Speak terms like "renowned", "acclaimed" etc. and adverts for forthcoming releases as well as link-spamming to pages where an artist's recordings are available for sale does a great disservice to the artists you represent. Such tactics reduce rather than enhance an article's credibility and can be spotted a mile away. I strongly suggest you refrain from further edits on the following articles in which you have a clear conflict of interest: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Emmanuel Pahud, and Joyce DiDonato. Thanks, Voceditenore (talk) 09:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Persistent copyright violation

Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder, as you did to Leif Ove Andsnes. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. This also applies to your additions or re-additions of copyright material to Jonathan Biss, Emmanuel Pahud and Joyce DiDonato.Voceditenore (talk) 11:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)