User talk:Rhyging

Guess What?

You're not doing any favors here so stop acting like you are. The pronunciation section is needed to help describe how rhyging is spoken. It's an obscure name/word. Also, stop deleting the Boston band Rhyging from being mentioned in this article. The band exists, and it's NOT falling under the category of advertising by merely mentioning it's existence. You try to come off like you're helping but you're really just erasing valuable information there to help teach the public. If you think it "won't be taken seriously" that's your own oppinion. If you're really that concerned about the 'Rhyging page', then maybe you'd like to help by doing a little research and try and add something instead. Until then, stop being a fuckin' robot. Bless

Why are you reverting Rhyging?

Greetings. I took the time to clean up your article, make the tone more encyclopedic, modify it to the standard wiki format, etc. so that it will be taken seriously and be helpful to readers. Please take a look at the changes I've made, and note that all they do is make the piece more neutral and unbiased, and easier to read and follow. Please do not revert it without a very clear reason, which you can post in the "Discussion" section of the article. MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:19, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Putting in content like "An avenging angel of hope to the people brutalized by the police and ignored by their government" keeps the article from being taken seriously. If people can put in whatever opinions they want, you'd have a constant revert war calling Genghis Khan "a brilliant military" or "a genocidal maniac." Wikipedia sticks with the facts: "Rhyging was a man who did XYZ, Jimmy Cliff said ABC about him, etc." So far as pronunciation, there's an entire phonetic alphabet which can be used to aid pronunciation. Wikipedia has thousands of foreign names for people and places, and instead of including a paragraph to explain them, you just put the phonetic pronuciation next to the name like so: (pronounced /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/ or /beɪˈʒɪŋ/ in English). As for the band called Rhyging, if they're notable they deserve a mention and their own article, but if they don't meet WP:NOTABILITY standards then they don't need to be mentioned. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Look, you can't just go reverting things back just because you disagree. If you have points, bring them up in Discussion for the article. The edits I'm making are perfectly standard Wikipedia formatting changes, and adding personal bias, colorful descriptions, and promotion of a non-notable musical group are simply not part of what Wikipedia does. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:56, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing.

I've blocked you for 24h for edit warring and incivility. Please see WP:CIVIL and ponder how [1] might possibly have broken it. In gneral terms, please slow down and discuss controversial edits on the article talk page William M. Connolley (talk) 07:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Help with footnotes for Rhyging?

I made some more mods, got the article pretty much cleaned up and factual. If you want to help really bring the article to the next level of quality, the things that would help the most would be to find a public domain pic (one that's not copyright, if that's possible), and to add footnotes. Check out any of the other biography articles to see how footnotes are added by just putting <ref> </ref> tags around the footnote info. There are several reputable books with info about Rhyging, so you can probably find some good stuff in just a few minutes online, like here: http://books.google.com/books?q=Rhyging&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC)