User talk:The Whole Truth Now

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:The Whole Truth Now

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A tag has been placed on User:The Whole Truth Now, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Contested deletion

This is the page of a living internationally know actor, author and artist as well as social activist. It is well sourced with websites and other professional sources. Giul ano is well known actor and author and simply lists his accomplishments and public works as with any other entertainer. For years it has been used as a foruem to attack the actor author for his sometimes controversal books by readers and now that it is being updated to include his popular film work vandals are again attacking this artist.

While some may not enjoy works his works he is an internationally know celebrity. Wikipedia is not a popularity contest nor a place for unabashed promotion. Indeed most of what is in this article is slanted against the artist. Everytime his books are listed they are removed. Evertime his films are listed theyare removed. This is motivated vandalism.

http://www.geoffreygiuliano.net/portfolio/

http://www.iconcatalogue.com/#/50

There is a link to his 27 internationally published books.

Here is a link to his films:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321325/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

He IS a famous and celebrated artist. His page should stay within the rules of Wikipedia and the public interest.

No THE WHOLE TRUTH NOW is not GEOFFREY GIULIANO. Nor was the article written by him. It has been up for about 10 years. Mr. Giuliano has NOT made any changes to this page as far as we are aware. [[unsigned|The Whole Truth Now}}

• Please don't be naive or assume that people here are naive. And why are you referring to yourself as "we"? --Randykitty (talk) 07:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

In any event, it is copyright infringement regardless. -- dsprc ^[talk] 07:20, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Note from deleting admin The reason I deleted the article was not because of promotional reasons (although it did read like a CV), but purely because it was a blatant copy of someone elses work. As a teacher, I am sure you would not tolerate your students copying each other's work. Likewise here at Wikipedia, we take an equally strong stance against it by removing it immediately. I have posted some information in the section below that will give you guidance as to what is and (more importantly) what isn't acceptable. Stephen! ^Coming... 09:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014

Hello The Whole Truth Now, and welcome to Wikipedia. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Stephen! ^Coming... 09:22, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Stephen! ^Coming... 09:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi it is not a PERSONAL website as I am not Geoffrey Giuliano. Listing an actors credits is NOT promotion. Is not advertising. It is a record of their works. Are you telling me bibliographies are NOT allowed for authors on Wikipedia. Show me that please. So under Ernest Hemminmgway you MAY NOT list his literay works? No mention of his books? I am sorry with real respect I do not buy that. Second an actor, Antony Hopkins may NOT have a listing of his films? That cannot be. No mention of his work as an actor and what films he appeared in. I am not this Giuliano, nor do I know him but fair is fair. He has a reight as a published author to have a LISTING OF HIS BOOKS and as an ACTORa listing of his films.

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Your edits, and why they are being reverted

There is a reason why your edits are being reverted. I have undone most of your edits, and will put an explanation as to why here, in more detail than I can do in the edit summary:

1. This one was reverted because you inserted a spam link (iconeditions.net), and removed referenced text. The reveiws may have been negative, but they are referenced from reliable sources, so they should remain.
2. This edit was originally removed en masse with the rest of the edits because it included a spam link. I have left the bulk of the text in place now by creating a Biblography section, but the spam link is still removed.
3. As a rule IMDB is not used as a primary source, because (like Wikipedia) anyone can edit it and thus the reliability goes down. In addition, the WP:PEACOCK phrase "According to the well repected Hollywood website Internet Movie Data Base. Com" is extremely promotional, and thus not permitted.

By all means, ADD to the article, provided in doing so you do not:

1. Add promotional links;
2. Remove referenced material;
3. Write as though you are creating advertising copy.

We are not here to prevent this article being expanded; we want to see it improved, not converted into an advert. Stephen! ^Coming... 11:43, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014

Your recent editing history at Geoffrey Giuliano shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Randykitty (talk) 12:26, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

TO RANDY AND STEPHEN: Okay those answers make sense. Got It! All I was looking for was the reason behind things. I will oblige. Sorry I was not asware of the rules. Thank you so much for cluing me in! Now one question how is the publishers website of Geoffrey Giuliano's books considered SPAM? Can you explain that please guys? Also how can we put a photo of Giuliano up there. Can you help with that? Best ever.

Another issue. No one copied that article. That was the original that has been there fior years. I expanded it with the new info on Giuliano's books and films. Tell me pleaase where I lifted or stole that from? I wrote it myself. It was only a couple of paragraphs. Not difficult at all. To say it is stolen text you must kindly tell me from where? i wrote it. I cannot fathiom what your answer can possibly be, Thanks so much! Best