User talk:Geoff Whistle

Edit summaries

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. Yves (talk) 14:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hit Quarters links

Hi, I have reverted your addition of the Hit Quarters external link to Sire Records as linkspam.diff I looked at the link and found the information minimal and any further info took one through a paywall. I do see that you have added several such. If you were a new user, or a single purpose account, this would be open and shut - see #5 on WP:LINKSTOAVOID. However I also see that you an editor of good standing making many valuable contributions to label articles with a very low reversion rate. So I give you the opportunity here to justify the inclusion of the Hit Quarters links, which I will take into account and, possibly, undo my reversion. Wwwhatsup (talk) 07:34, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I can understand why you would consider these links to be problematic and I appreciate you giving me chance to justify my actions. My reasoning is that although the site uses a partial paywall, the information the links are said to provide – namely a updated list of the A&R team for that particular record company – is still accessible to all users. Who is currently working with the artists at a label is actually very valued information to many music artists/fans because and these details are very hard to come by on the web without obtaining a dedicated directory, which is unecessary for non-professionals. One potential idea would be to list the A&R on the Wiki page itself but this would be too specialist and also as the staff are constantly moving around this would be difficult to keep updated. Providing the information in the "External links" section is an ideal answer. The links I've added provide regularly updated lists of the current A&R team for a particular label – along with their company position, breakthrough credits, current artists etc. – and therefore provide the most accurate, up-to-date "open" source for this information on the web. It is just very unfortunate for justifying its inclusion on Wikipedia that there is a paywall section to these pages containing the company address and email, particularly given that this information is actually much less important; if anyone wants to contact the label then address and telephone numbers are on the official website and they use a standardised email address system. If this is still not acceptable by Wiki standards then it is disappointing because I think I am providing valuable and valued information but I would accept your judgement without question. If you have any queries then please let me know. --Geoff Whistle (talk) 10:06, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Shamora Crawford

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Does not satisfy WP:BASIC. Been in CAT:NN for almost 12 years.

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