Luvwomercy

November 2013

Your addition to Lee Roy Parnell has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Also, just because Lee Roy does not want to be called "country" does not mean we can bend to his whims. Other reputable sources call him a country artist, and he did have multiple hits on the country charts, so we can't whitewash the article like that. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:49, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Apart from the copyright point mentioned above, it would be useful for you to read Wikipedia's advice for editors with a conflict of interest. - David Biddulph (talk) 19:17, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:53, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Reply

It's not that he has "no say". It's just that you generally shouldn't remove information from a biography unless it's controversial. Calling him a country artist is not in any way controversial. If he wants to be identified as a blues artist too, then that's fine — just don't remove the instances of him being called country, and ideally, add a secondary source (i.e., something that doesn't originate from him), and present it in a neutral fashion. For instance, a section on his musical styles could quote a reputable source's views on his style — something like "Steve Huey of Allmusic describes Parnell's style as 'as a blend of hardcore honky tonk, barroom rock & roll, blues, boogie, Western swing, blue-eyed soul, and occasional gospel.'" That works because it's attributing the description to someone, and presenting it as someone else's opinion. Present facts as facts, opinions as opinions.

Also, please do not just copy text wholesale from Lee Roy's own site, as that is a copyright violation. Even if you wrote the text on the site too, Wikipedia highly prefers a neutral, encyclopedic tone. Please read WP:NPOV if you're not sure of what this entails. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:22, 12 November 2013 (UTC)