Krenda5

Mike Manning (actor)

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to Mike Manning (actor), as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept unsourced material or original research (in particular the material you added to the beginning and end of the section on Manning's acting career, and to the section on his Personal life). This includes material lacking cited sources, or obtained through personal knowledge or unpublished synthesis of previously published material. Wikipedia requires that all material added to articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here.

In addition, please do not remove valid, sourced information without citing a rationale for doing so in an edit summary. That Manning is an actor does not mean that his work in reality television should be removed from the Lead section, since both can be mentioned.

Lastly, biographical subjects of articles should be referred to by their surname, and not their given name. Referring to subjects by their given name breaches the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia. Please see WP:SURNAME.

If you have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 09:33, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Regarding the message you left me, allow me to address the two concerns you raised:

Sites with user-generated content like imdb cannot be used as sources, as indicated by Wikipedia:USERG.

While Wikipedia is certainly amenable to working with article subjects in cases of vandalism, false information or material that is defamatory or exhibits undue weight or a non-neutral point of view, it is not going to remove information because the subject dislikes it or wishes to de-emphasize it for aesthetic reasons or career concerns. Since Mr. Manning is both a reality TV personality and actor, the article must naturally include both facts. Since the Lead section is a summary of the article's most salient points, and in particular, of the reasons why the subject is notable, it is not reasonable for the Lead of Mr. Manning's article to omit the fact that he is, among other things, a reality television personality, especially when you consider that the public likely knows him more for his time on The Real World than in his TV and movie appearances (at least at present).

You should also understand that Wikipedia is very particular when the editing of an article by a particular editor represents a conflict of interest, and this includes editing of articles by close friends of the articles' subjects. While this does not mean that you can't edit the article on someone whom you know, please take care that your edits not carry the appearance or have the effect of serving to promote the subject, as this is strictly prohibited.

I'm sorry if what I've told you frustrates you or Mr. Manning, or makes it harder for you to edit the article. If there's anything else I can do to help you with your edits, do not hesitate to ask. Nightscream (talk) 00:41, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

No apology necessary. In fact, one way Mr. Manning can improve the article is by uploading a photo of himself to accompany the article. I tried contacting him on Facebook some time ago to ask him if he had one he'd be willing to upload, but never received a response. Nightscream (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

First, select a good photo that would be a good representation of him in the Infobox at the top of the article. A portrait shot is generally preferable, color, if possible.

Next, decide upon the Permission/Licensing limits with which you want to allow its usage. There are two options:

• You can enter the image into the public domain, which means you give up all copyright to it. (An example of this would be the Mona Lisa.)
• You can free-license the image, which is what I do with my images. I myself use the Attribution 3.0 License, which means that anyone outside of Wikipedia can use one of my images, modify it, publish it, free of charge, as long as they credit me, or "attribute" it to me. (An example of one of my images that I uploaded with this license is this one. Note the permission info in the Summary section.)

Which do you wish to do? Nightscream (talk) 04:54, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Ack! Sorry about that. I didn't look carefully enough at the edit history. Both your username and Krismis' username star with a "K", and that threw me off. I wasn't attentive enough. Sorry about that. Regarding the source, though, the source merely quotes Mr. Manning as saying it. We cannot source such an assertion to the subject of the article. But if there are good reviews for it, they should be easy to find in secondary sources. Nightscream (talk) 18:35, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Mike Manning.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mike Manning.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 05:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Mike C Manning.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Mike C Manning.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 05:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Krenda, please do not add unsourced material to articles, as you did with this edit to Mike Manning (actor). Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 06:40, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mike C Manning.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Mike C Manning.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Eeekster (talk) 05:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)