Balthazar12345

Deleted image from Rob Fishman article

Hello! I just thought I'd let you know that the image you added to Rob Fishman was deleted from Wikimedia Commons as a copyright violation. The image appears to be this frame from this YouTube video, yet you claimed that it was your own work.  Rebbing  19:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Rob Fishman article

Hello. I notice that all your edits have been on topics related to Rob Fishman and his relatives. If you are connected to Mr. Fishman in some way, you must disclose this immediately. I attach an explanation of this below. All the best, any questions just let me know and I'll try to help. Blythwood (talk) 21:38, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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April 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Rob Fishman has been reverted.
Your edit here to Rob Fishman was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCtuc6_34X4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5wmhNp06o) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Your recent edits

Hi, there! Just a friendly note to let you know a few things:

• Please don't mark your edits as minor unless they're uncontroversial and don't change the meaning of a page. Per WP:MINOR, "[a]ny edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor." Marking edits inappropriately is a surefire way to attract suspicion.

• Relatedly, please use an edit summary to describe every edit. It doesn't need to be complicated, but it helps others follow changes.

• I see you removed the {{notability}} tag from Rob Fishman. Please don't remove maintenance tags without resolving the underlying issue. In this case, the alternative to that tag is sending the article to Articles for Deletion, which it's will be unlikely to survive. The tag isn't a badge of shame: it lets other editors know there may be an issue so they can try to fix it if they like.

Thanks!  Rebbing  14:16, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Rebbing - sorry for deleting. I added a few more sources; do you think it needs more for you to remove the tag? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balthazar12345 (talk • contribs) 17:37, 7 April 2016‎ (UTC)

Not a problem at all. I took another look, and that's probably not going to help. To quote our notability policy for biographies:

People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

Having one's work cited doesn't usually count towards notability: as our general notability guideline explains, the kind of coverage we're talking about discusses the subject (here, Mr. Fishman) "directly and in detail . . . . Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it need not be the main topic of the source material." Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I've seen many biographies with much more coverage than this get deleted. If you're curious, have a look at Jennie Fife, an article with fairly solid coverage that looks like it won't survive its AfD.

A couple notes about references: WP:RS, our reliable sources guideline, establishes certain criteria for sources used in articles. Generally, self-published material including social media profiles (including CrunchBase) isn't acceptable; the exceptions to this rule are given at WP:SELFSOURCE; you could probably use it for the subject's birthdate if you wanted. Also, references always need to be inside <ref> tags. We don't have a mandatory citation style, but I recommend sticking with the "Citation Style 1" templates; you mostly only need {{cite web}} (quick examples).

I realize this is a lot to process, and I apologize: Wikipedia isn't that easy, but it's still a lot easier than getting hired by a print publisher.  Rebbing  18:44, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Rebbing: I added in several other references from the New York Times that discuss the subject directly and in detail. Is this helpful? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balthazar12345 (talk • contribs) 22:29, 7 April 2016‎ (UTC)

I would say so. Good work! If I were you, I'd work on incorporating the relevant material from those into the article itself (using those as references instead of further reading material).

I'm not going to lie: that photograph is pretty impressive. However, I have a hard time believing you took it. You should change the author information to reflect the photographer and follow these directions for submitting a permissions statement.  Rebbing  01:30, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

File:Rob Fishman and Arianna Huffington.png

Hello, Balthazar. I nominated your image File:Rob Fishman and Arianna Huffington.png for deletion. My reasons for requesting that it be deleted are given at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Rob Fishman and Arianna Huffington.png. If you'd like, you're free to offer reasons why the image should not be deleted.

Also, I had left you the standard message about this on your Commons talk page, but I thought you might be more likely to see the notice here.  Rebbing  23:43, 16 April 2016 (UTC)