Anndreeea

May 2013

Hello, I'm Dismas. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, Andrea Lowell, but that you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dismas|^(talk) 01:37, 23 May 2013 (UTC) Welcome!

Welcome

Hello, Anndreeea, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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Hi, I took a look at your article and made a few tweaks. The stuff you tried to post would not be allowed for two reasons:

1. It is copied from AskMen - you can't copy/paste copyright material, you have to actually re-write it yourself.
2. Even if you had written it yourself, it wouldn't fly as it's obviously promotional in nature

Compare with this one, which is another lady in the same line of work Anna_Sophia_Berglund - you see how it doesn't have any superlative words (sexy, cute, great, etc), and is just sort of factual and gets to the point? That's what you need in your bio - facts that can be sourced (and AskMen is probably ok for this, but I'm not positive), but written in a way such that the information is encyclopedic in nature, and written from a neutral point of view.

I added some of the bio stats you posted, assuming this is really you, but it would be best to find a published source for those, but I didn't add your birthdate - it's up to you if you want that in I suppose, some people don't include it for privacy reasons.

Again, welcome to wikipedia, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 03:42, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I was going to reply with much the same info but thought I'd just tag my thoughts on to Obi-Wan's welcome here. I'll listify everything to keep things orderly.

• We don't actually know if you are Andrea Lowell. We're kind of taking your word for it at this point but have no proof as of right now. Think of it this way, anyone can sign up for an account and call themselves whatever they want. You're a (minor) celebrity and what's to stop anyone from making an account and saying that they're you. There may be a way to prove that you are who you say you are but I'm not familiar with that process. I know that sites like Twitter confirm that celebrity accounts are created by the actual celeb but I'm not sure about how to do that here. I'd be happy to look into that for you if you'd like.
• Yes, you can't just copy/paste things from other sites. Just like when you were in school and the teacher told you that you couldn't copy things from books but could put what the book said into your own words. It's a copyright violation to copy.
• IMDB is not considered a reliable source for much of anything. Most of their info is fan submitted and there is little to no error checking done by the IMDB staff. See WP:RS/IMDB for more on that.
• Things like birth dates are required to have a reliable source since it is an easily contested bit of personal data. See WP:BLP for more on Biographies of Living Persons.
• In general, it is best for the subject of an article to post their comments and corrections on the talk page for the article in question. In this case, that would be at Talk:Andrea Lowell. Then a neutral editor who does not know you or have any financial ties to you can add the info in a neutral tone. (Like Obi-Wan said, no use of "sexy, cute, great, etc")

Like Obi-Wan, I welcome questions and comments and am willing to work with you given that you can provide published references for information. Thanks for understanding, Dismas|^(talk) 20:06, 23 May 2013 (UTC)