User talk:Folkways

Welcome!

Hello, Folkways, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/recordings.html. As a copyright violation, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Kimchi.sg 17:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Smithsonian Folkways[edit]

At this point, Wikipedia has at least THREE articles on the same subject: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Folkways Records, and the brand-new Smithsonian folkways records. As an aside, PLEASE check variant names and spellings (including capitalization) before creating new articles.

That said, there can be only one article, with the other titles redirecting to that page. Please go to Talk:Smithsonian Folkways Recordings for the discussion on what to keep, merge, or expunge. Note that Smithsonian Folkways Recordings appears to have an iffy copyright status. --Calton | Talk 02:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Username, etc[edit]

I'm a big fan of Folkways Records and the work that they do. This is nothing personal against you or them. But Wikipedia does not allow for corporate accounts. You should only be using an account on your own behalf, one which is not shared with others, even in the same office. Wikipedia:Username policy#Company/group names. It would be better if you changed your name to something less corporate sounding to avoid confusion. Wikipedia:Changing username. Also, please avoid activities that would appear to promote Folkways. Finally, if you're adding lists, the standard convention on Wikipedia is to make them chronological, oldest to newest. Please let me know if you have any questions. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would help a lot if you would be explicit on your user page as to whether you are simply a fan of Folkways & Moe Asch, an employee of Smithsonian Folkways, or what. The current ambiguous state of affairs is almost certain to be a problem. If you are connected with the company and have legal ability to grant rights to copyrighted images, for example, we can verify your identity through them, and that becomes very useful. Conversely, if you are connected with the company, it would probably be better to offer proposed article additions about Folkways artists on article talk pages, and let someone with no economic interest in the matter make the judgement of which belong in the articles. On the other hand, if you are not affiliated with them, then this is probably a poorly chosen user name. - Jmabel | Talk 21:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Ceri Rhys Matthews[edit]

The article Ceri Rhys Matthews has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable musician. Fails MUSIC

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. User:Woohookitty ^{Diamming fool!} 05:49, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Ceri Rhys Matthews[edit]

A tag has been placed on Ceri Rhys Matthews requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Proposed deletion of Monitor Records (New York)[edit]

The article Monitor Records (New York) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced since 2006, no notability

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