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Mickey Rooney

Hi and thanks for your additions to this article. I'm a little unclear about some things you put in the edit summaries. Should I suppose that these and this are the sources for the content you added? If so, could you please go back and insert inline citations with the content to show anyone who would care to check where it came from? You can find more on citing sources at WP:CITE. Thank you. Wildhartlivie (talk) 04:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Redlinks

Hi Informationfountain,

Regarding your edits here, you've done a lot of work turning the red links blue by redirecting readers to another article which have more information on the series.

Unfortunately, many of the links you're providing don't actually provide much content about the series in question. For example, you linked The Jo Stafford Show to Jo Stafford. But the Jo Stafford article has only a single line about the series: "Stafford hosted the 15-minute The Jo Stafford Show on CBS-TV from 1954 to 1955 with Weston as her conductor and music arranger." You directed It's a Great Life to James Dunn, which has absolutely no content about that series. You directed readers trying to find content about So You Want to Lead a Band to Sammy Kaye, which doesn't mention that series at all. Etc, etc.

There's nothing inherently wrong with redlinks. They help let other editors know that articles still need to be created. In fact, I frequently use redlinks when creating new articles. They cue me in on areas that need improvement. What you've done for 1954-1955 TV season is remove any hint that a bunch of articles still need to be created, and directed readers to content that won't help them.

Although I know you're trying to be helpful with the links, I've reverted your changes for now. When people click on a link, they should get content they expect; at this point, the links you've provided won't help readers find out about the series they think they are clicking on. Please consider making articles for the missing series instead. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 07:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Italicized quotes

Hi, I noticed that you've been italicizing the text inside of many {{cquote}} templates, so I'd just like to let you know that according to WP:PUNC, "A quotation is not italicized simply because it is a quotation." If there's another reason why you've been adding italic markup to them, then please let me know here. Thanks. —LOL ^T/_C 22:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

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-Phoenixrod (talk) 07:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

TV schedules

Hi Informationfountain,

I have a question for you about the 1959–60 United States network television schedule. In this edit summary, you wrote Brooks & Marsh and Castleman & Podrazik confirm the earlier times for Edwards and Huntley-Brinkley. In the series of edits following [1], you added The Huntley-Brinkley Report to NBC's weeknight schedule at 7:15 PM, citing The TV Schedule Book (Castleman and Podrazik) and The Complete Directory (Brooks and Marsh). I'm looking at The TV Schedule Book, pages 108-109, and C&P only show local programming for NBC weeknights from 7-7:30, with the news programs on from 6:45-7:00. Brooks and Marsh, in their 2007 edition on page 1582, show CBS airing the news from 6:45-7:00, but not NBC. Watching TV (1982, Castleman and Podrazik) shows local-only between 7-7:30 for CBS and NBC on page 132. Where do C&P and B&M confirm a 7:15-7:30 timeslot for NBC news during the 1959-1960 schedule? It's not in their grids; is it somewhere in the text? For now, I've removed Huntley-Brinkley. Firsfron of Ronchester 18:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

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Quotations

Hi there - I have undone the quotes that you have added to It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone). According to our non-free content criteria, which is based on copyright law, quotes can only be reproduced in an article if they are "brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea." The quotes used in the article are too long to satisfy these criteria.--Mkativerata (talk) 23:12, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that the narrations can't be included in the article at all. Such lengthy quotes are violations of our non-free content policy, which is in turn based on copyright law. You really need to stop putting these quotes in - continuing to do so is a ground for blocking an editor.--Mkativerata (talk) 05:39, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 14:21, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

re Bridget Loves Bernie

Good catch! Herostratus (talk) 17:24, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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