User talk:CultureGirl

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Speedy deletion nomination of Tracy Miller (Schell)

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A tag has been placed on Tracy Miller (Schell) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.tracymillerschell.com/bio. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Tracy Miller Montalban Theater Benefit Concert.jpg

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A tag has been placed on File:Tracy Miller Montalban Theater Benefit Concert.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.tracymillerschell.com/photos-video-page. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Hi, thanks for message. If you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft,which is good practice anyway. I deleted your article because

it did not provide adequate independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what she claims or interviewing her or her management. Some at least of your references are not really suitable. For example, the Crescenta Valley reference, which I checked at random, seemed to be a very local publication, and the text was basically a puff piece or press release for a forthcoming event rather than factual writing. Note incidentally that I wouldn't list the website in your refs, even though it's an option, use publisher instead. So

Oxman, Steven (30 October 2001). "Dracula, the Musical". Variety., not Oxman, Steven (30 October 2001). "Dracula, the Musical". variety.com.

The article isn't terribly promotional, and might have survived without the copyright issue. However, it deals only with her professional career, and anything that makes it more rounded would help
If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. In particular, if you are being paid directly or indirectly, you must say so, because there is then a procedure to follow.

Some style points

Your article title is not correct. Either Tracy Miller Schell or Tracy Miller (actress) with a redirect #redirect [[article title]] from the other form. Again, best start as draft [[Draft:article title]]
Check where your links go, eg Hairspray, not what you intended, I'd guess
Headings follow normal capitalisation, eg "Early life", not "Early Life"

It was actually a decent first attempt, scuppered by the copyright issue, and if you want me to review a new draft at any time, let me know on my talk page.

Not at all clear why a US actress should support Spurs, other than good taste

cheers, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I've made these changes to your draft, mainly fixing/adding links, formatting (no spacing between punctuation and refs or between refs) filling some refs. Also look at the history for my comments, ask if you are not sure why I've done things. Thank you for replying to my COI query. Two issues still with refs

Refs should not be bare urls. I've fixed some with a bot, but you'll need to complete the ones it doesn't like.
More seriously, your refs remain mostly of low quality. At a pinch, IMDB is better than nothing, and the final ref, a self-serving interview with her husband, actually supports what you have said. However, I can't imagine why you think that [this is a good quality independent third-party source. A random guy's fan page isn't suitable, and this sort of link is more likely to get the article deleted than improve it!

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:50, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to the image, you should be OK to re-upload now, making it clear when and where you took it. I'd also suggest changing the file name so it doesn't flag up as a recreation of a deleted file. It's possible it may re-emerge on the web, but that doesn't matter as long as it's after you upload it here, since it's then free to use anyway. so I do not risk being shut off as a contributor— I don't think you need to worry about that. I block users every day, but it's for blatant spamming, vandalism, using a company or product as a user name, and other gross violations of our rules. Good faith editors have little to fear Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:58, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]