User talk:Doctorteddynewman

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MY COMMENT

Who is user Ryulong? He deleted and blanked out my contribution to this article and accused me of being a vandel. What I added was not spam, in fact this article is far better after my subtractions and additions. I removed many of the name dropping and added links to verify the information that could be backed up and I indeed "cleaned up" the article. Furthermore, I'm not a sockpuppet of user bluecanoe, I do not know who this is. I also do not know joseph, however I've seen him perform with his group on several occasions.

Yesterday, I signed up as new user so I could start submitting articles and links (I should point out that I've been using Wikipedia.org for sometime researching medical information). I'm an amateur bass player and started looking up some of my "bass heros". When I came across jpm's page, I was disturbed by the "discussion" concerning him. I decided to "cleanup" this article partly because of the invitation to do so: "You may wish to contribute to the review" (as stated at the top of the article). I did so and user Ryulong deleted my contribution.

Is this the policy of Wikipedia.org? If users of your site can't contribute and add information to articles, you should re-examine your policies.

user:Doctorteddynewman

What's going on...

Recently, the article on Joseph Patrick Moore has been the subject of some debate, include a deletion review; some editors have questioned whether Moore meets the encyclopedia's guidelines for inclusion of articles on musicians and bands. Unfortunately, several folks from Blue Canoe Records, Moore's record company, have been posting to Wikipedia using multiple accounts, in a manner which some editors consider an attempt to manipulate the process and unduely influence the debate. While this was going on, you showed up; one of the editors in questioned assumed that you were yet another record company employee (or a "sockpuppet" account; the term refers to multiple accounts created by the same person in order to emulate a plurality of opinion) showing up on Wikipedia to generate artificial "support" for Moore's article.

If you are indeed an independent user of the encyclopedia, please accept our apologies. As your account was created after this debate started, Wikipedia editors had no way of knowing for sure. Your pattern of edits (minor edits to numerous articles on other bassists, significant edits to the article on Moore) further raised suspicions. That said, the insertion of lots of links to Moore's own website and publicity raises eyebrows; generally an article should contain only a single link to a particular site. Far better would be links to sites independent of Moore (such as reputable jazz or bass-related publications, print or online) which offer commentary on Moore.

--EngineerScotty 17:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)