User talk:Mrophelia

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Hey.

Look. I talked with you on the help channel, so trust me when I say that you're not helping the article this way.

The edit summary I used before said:

"You can't say that sort of stuff here without providing references. You can't copy press releases verbatim. And you can't provide reviews of the album before it's released."

If you want more details, you can come back on the help channel and I'll explain things to you directly. DS (talk) 00:58, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As for unlocking the article... well, I'm not clairvoyant, so I'm going to have to ask explicitly: do you promise to not try that stuff again? DS (talk) 14:33, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. DS (talk) 19:18, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Robbie Robertson

Please do not remove free images from this article, as you did with this edit. I have released the image into the public domain, and there is no reason to remove it from the article. Thank you. Doc talk 03:38, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ack. I've looked at that, and... good lord, that's a really bad photo. Taken by, I note, Doc9871 -- the same guy who told you not to remove it from the article (which could explain a lot - perhaps he's proud of having his photo in the article?). For the record, such an image would only be preferable if it was the only free photo of Robbie available -- which, thanks to your upload, it is not. Since Doc's photo is free, it'll stay on Commons in the category "photos of Robbie Robertson" (or whatever the category is called), but I'm going to remove it from the article myself, and I'll leave a note for Doc. This won't necessarily settle things right away, but it's worth a try. DS (talk) 19:28, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You know what's also worth a try? Actually discussing it at the talk page before deleting it because of your opinions. Your upload... "Permission = Yes". Really?! Where's that source, exactly? It's not a free image. Before I put the image in there was a B&W image of him from 1971 in the infobox, and neither of you seemed to have any problem with that at all. It doesn't look anything like he does today, but it was okay until I had to come along and ruin things, right? You know, Risker accused me of ignoring others' opinions: but I see neither of you expressing your opinions except to delete with either disparaging edit summaries or none at all. Accusing me of WP:OWN is just bad faith: and quite ironic, really. Mrophelia's whopping 79 edits here are 100% related to Robbie Robertson: every last single solitary one. That's a "problem". From the way you've been acting I'm quite happy to bring this to a much larger audience than the talk page that you've been ignoring. You claim to know Robbie personally: take a picture of your own and release it into the public domain. And don't call his work "stirring"[1] without a reference: that is original research and is neither neutral nor "encyclopedic". This is freakin' amateur hour... Doc talk 10:45, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hey doc- i'm new to this whole process. truth is, robbie robertson is my dad and i've just been trying to help out by updating info and more importantly correcting a lot of misinformation. honestly i just didn't think it was a very flattering photo and didn't really want it on the page. as for the pic from 1971 i didn't want that either but it took me a while to learn how to upload a newer, nicer and more appropriate image. i would prefer to not have the image you've uploaded on the page but at the end of the day it really isn't that big of a deal. i hope you understand as you seem angry about this. i'm just learning as i go. all the best.

Hey - I responded on my talk page but I don't know if you saw it. Apparently the image you uploaded was removed as a copyright infringement by User:ImageRemovalBot, so I put in one from the Commons that shows him performing in 2007. WP is very strict about copyrighted material (esp. images), and editors and bots remove images all the time (I had nothing to do with it). If you could get a more recent picture of him that you took yourself, it could be uploaded and used in its place. Check the talk page of the article, where Risker has made some good suggestions on how to improve the article. Cheers :> Doc talk 16:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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