Talk:Geeta Novotny

In reply to a "other" (as suggested by Michael Bednarek, not random -- other) users modifications to this page

Publishing biographies can be a hard task to-do and I understand that. I may be a little rusty at authoring an article like this but I do understand the rules and what is required for pages like this one. I plan on removing the tiny links and inter-wiki links that do not relate to this article. I also plan on revising the usage of the subject's name through-out the article. There is a Talk Page, and as hard as I have worked on this article, I really wish that the recent modifications were discussed here before just making them. Help with the article and collaboration is appreciated but I have combed over this article 100 times. Discussion is open. (Especially to any moderator or another editor who is nice and understanding and wants to make this article work.) Josh Canfield | Userpage 02:58, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup

Copied from User talk:Simplycreative/Sandbox/geetanovotny article

Before moving this article into the mainspace, please start the cleanup by removing the massive amount of links to disambigution pages (classical?) and removing trivial links (father?); I recommend to read Wikipedia:Your first article, and more specifically, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking), Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) and Wikipedia:Citing sources.

You should immediatley remove the interwiki links; I checked four and none did have an article on Novotny. The categorisation as Category:American tenors, caused by the use next to "Christopher Campbell", is wrong. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks buddy for getting this over here. As it is important to keep all documentation when moving an article. Josh Canfield | Userpage 18:11, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Collaboration

This page was not ready to be moved into article space as none of the concerns above had been addressed. If you truly welcome contributions by other editors you would not revert constructive edits which try to make this article compliant with established Wikipedia guidelines; calling them "random editors" is uncalled for. Those interwiki links to non-existing pages have to be removed immediately, as do the gazillion of links to trivial terms. Referring to the subject by first name is a guaranteed way of attracting banners like Template:POV, Template:Advert, Template:Fanpov. In addition to the guidelines mentioned above, you might also familiarise yourself with WP:OWN.

PS: Don't ever edit other editors contributions to talk pages, as you did here. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

This all sounds good to me. Thanks for the suggestions. I am more than welcome to other editor's contributions. What's really funny about what you typed is the fact that I really didn't mean to come off that way. But that's how you took it and I am fine with that. 'Random Editors' was me not having the time to actually look at who made the changes. Thanks for all of the suggestions and changes. Appreciated. Josh Canfield | Userpage 18:09, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Revisions for May

Within the next day or two, I will be making modifications to this article such as removing inter-wiki links and revising how the biography was written such as using the subject's first name as many times as I initially did. (Thanks for everyone's patience, it's been awhile since I have written a full article.). There have been a few editors who have actually reviewed this document with me and I appreciate their help. You know who you are. Those changes will be published soon. Josh Canfield | Userpage 18:17, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Added new Notable press articles with references to websites. Other minor revisions were made. There was a lot of information that I noticed is inconsistent with other musician's Wikipedia articles such as how the Infobox appears and capitalization too. Interesting. Wikipedia really has changed over the last few years since I was editing articles. (I hate to admit this, but people are less friendly on Wikipedia now a days. That's too bad folks -- it's about collaboration and presenting correct and accurate information. That would be why I am here and occasionally editing. I still love Wikipedia and their standards, there are just a few people who could ease up which would actually make collaborating with them easier.) Josh Canfield | Userpage 06:44, 15 May 2011 (UTC)