User talk:Johnmccormick10

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Dismas|^(talk) 04:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tanner Mayes

Regarding your edit summary on the Tanner Mayes article which read "Added a website dedicated to Tanner. I've tried this before and added her filmography but it didn't take. Adult content maybe?". It doesn't have anything to do with adult content as Wikipedia is not censored.

I can't look at the site you posted a link to now as I'm at work but you mention it is "dedicated to Tanner". We generally don't list fan sites. If that's what the site is, it should be removed. If Mayes uses it as her official site, it can be kept. For instance, can you imagine how many sites are "dedicated" to Tom Cruise or Jessica Alba? Hundreds, I'm sure. But we don't list them.

Also, with pornographic actors we don't list their filmographies. See WP:TRIVIA and WP:P*#Filmographies. The first explains that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate list of information. And due to the sheer number of films that a porn actor can produce in a given year/month/week, those filmographies can grow to be huge with films that only dedicated fans will ever have heard of. The second link there explains how those of us who edit the articles on porn performers view the addition of filmographies.

If you have any questions, just let me know. Dismas|^(talk) 04:38, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I happened to see that you are putting comments to someone (presumably me?) in your edit summaries. That's not what an edit summary is for. See WP:EDITSUMMARY. In short, they're to explain what you're doing with that edit, e.g. "Fixed spelling", "Added marriage info", etc. If you'd like to communicate with someone, it's best to post a comment to their talk page as I'm doing right here, right now.

That said, to respond to those comments... You said "But if I add to her profile about here life, I can still recieve a reference?" Fan sites shouldn't be used as a reference generally. References must be reliable and fan sites don't have a history of fact checking. See WP:RS for what is, and is not, considered a reliable source.

Also, you said "Anyway, she doesn't have an official website, but I'm working on it." Does that mean that you're affiliated with Mayes? If so, see WP:COI for our conflict of interest guidelines. Dismas|^(talk) 06:07, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how to talk with you. Is this how it is done?

I put your talk page (this page that you're reading right now) on my watchlist. So if you make an edit to it, which you did just then, I'll see that you've done that. If you'd like to get my attention a little more reliably, you can post to my talk page which is linked at the end of my signature. That will put the "You have new messages" bar at the top of the page for me. That help? You can also sign your posts to talk pages with four tildas (like this: ~~~~) which will automatically expand to your username. For example, I'm putting four tildes at the end here and this is what you see ----> Dismas|^(talk) 07:16, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure why my last post was removed? Wasn't that factual information? What about a list of nominations for awards?Johnmccormick10 (talk) 00:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By "last post" do you mean the last edit you made to the article? If so, it's all in the article history. User:Morbidthoughts removed it because the reference was circular. Your source was using Wikipedia as a source for their info which we were using as a source for our info and so on. It's like saying "It's true because we say it is". Nominations are listed at times but only if the award itself is notable. AVN awards are notable but Freeones Babe of the Month (or whatever they call it) isn't. Dismas|^(talk) 00:12, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Creating lists

When creating a list with bullet points, you don't need to use HTML line break tags. In fact, on Wikipedia, you almost never need to use HTML. All you need for a bullet list is the asterisks at the start, like so:

Point 1
Point 2
Point 3

The same holds true for numbered lists:

First
Second
Third

Hope this helps, Dismas|^(talk) 00:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Porn Star Edits.

O.K. I understand that now and thanks for helping. I also added a couple of AVN nominations for Faye Reagan and they were deleted. Reason why? I want to make sure to do everything properly so as to not waste your time deleting stuff..

- John

Was there something about my edit summary that you didn't understand? I gave my reasoning there. See here. Dismas|^(talk) 03:31, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what that this means "Thehornet: slurpygirl is just using us as a reference, ref is circular." Is that because I put my edits before the div col end Or because AVN is the source of the information which I have re-posted on my site?

Two things:

The reference is circular. Slurpygirl gets their info from Wikipedia. So now we can't use them as a source because they're using us as a source. It's circular. It has nothing to do with the div col or any other coding issue.
What do you mean by "my site"? Are you saying that you're associated with Slurpygirl? Dismas|^(talk) 12:06, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But I don't get all of my information from wiki. I get info from other sources which I'm adding to wiki and posting on slurpygirl. And I did notice that some have their filmography listed yet others don't. some even have a separate article listing them. I could create and provide very acurate filmograhpies for a lot of them. A lot of sites have a large listing but they may miss some films..

See WP:P* for info on filmographies. Dismas|^(talk) 18:50, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice and I followed the posting rules and most have stuck on a few porn stars, but Asa Akira's top selling films was removed. Reason Please?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnmccormick10 (talk • contribs)

Since I have your talk page on my watchlist, I happen to see that you made the above edit. That's not really a reliable way to ask anyone anything though. If you want to ask someone something, you should post to their talk page. As far as answering your question, you'd have to A) read the edit summary of the person who removed the edit or B) ask them for clarification of their reasoning. Dismas|^(talk) 06:10, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

O.K. Thanks...