User talk:Dougie monty

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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you to adhere to Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors, which it appears you have not followed at Airplane!. Thank you. AirOdyssey (Talk) 11:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Gordon

Cool ... who were the other Jewish All Stars? --Epeefleche 13:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC) Right-handed pitcher: Ed Reulbach. Left-handed pitcher: Sandy Koufax. Relief pitcher; Larry Sherry. Catcher: Harry Danning (reader)/Johnny Kling (Stein). First base: Hank Greenberg. Second base: Rod Carew. Shortstop: Buddy Myer. Third base: Al Rosen. Center Field: Benny Kauff. Right Field: George Stone (Stein)/Shawn Green (SDMB). Manager: Lena Blackburne. (Explanations: Stein included Kling and Stone; but a reader of Esquire pointed out that Kliong's wife was Jewish, but he wasn't and suggested Danning instead. And someone posting on the Straight Dope Message Board suggested Green instead of George Stone.) Dougie monty 09:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mickey Cochrane

Hi please don't add nonsense to Wikipedia articles. {{unblock-auto|1=66.217.98.3|2= Uh--I'm sorry...what did I say that was nonsensical? The quote from Landis was authentic (Take Me out to the Ball Park.) Dougie monty 09:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Summaries

Hello. Please use edit summaries; it's the polite thing to do. Cheers, Doctormatt 18:28, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Can you give me an example? Dougie monty 09:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

When you edit a page, there's a 1-line edit box below the main editing box with the title "Edit summary (Briefly describe the changes you have made)". This is where you type in an edit summary. You can see examples of my edit summaries (the text between the parentheses) in my "user contributions" page, here. For more information refer to Help:Edit summary. RedSpruce 15:49, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Arturo Toscanini

Your edit to Arturo Toscanini has been reverted. To add imformation like this, you need something can be independently verified. Hearsay from a deceased college professor doesn't cut it. FWIW, I'm very well read on Toscanini and have never heard this anecdote.THD3 23:15, 30 May 2007 (UTC) I regret to say I have no other source. The professor, the late Irl Calvin Greer, was a teacher of Music Appreciation at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. Where HE got the information I have no idea. I suspect that Toscanini used his temperament as a lever to prod his musicians to improve themselves. Dougie monty 09:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please avoid quote lists

Please do not add lists of quotes to Wikipedia articles without any encyclopedic context. If you are interested in maintaining such lists, you may want to refer to Wikiquote, a related Wikimedia project. Thank you, Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hughie Jennings Story - "Jennings--batted for exercise."

The story about Jennings batting during the strike game is interesting. Do you have a source for it? I could not find any reference to such an incident in any of my materials on Jennings. Cbl62cbl62

[edit] Jane Fonda

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Mieciu K 12:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please cite sources

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Casey Jones, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please find and add a reliable citation to your recent edit so we can verify your work. Uncited information may be removed at any time. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing! Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I can only offer the source I mentioned--our family. This was my older brother, younger sister, and me; and our parents (my father is deceased). I may point out that I posted these lyrics at [www.amiright.com] with no objection. Dougie monty 06:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
The problem is, Dougie, that the Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and requires verifiability of notable and neutral encyclopedic information that can be attributed to reliable sources, and cannot constitute self-made references that constitute original research. Your personal observations and activities, and statements from your family members, or something you recall having seen, read, or sung somewhere, no matter how "truthful", is not encyclopedic and cannot stand. Verifiability trumps "the truth" every time in the Wikipedia. Unfortunately the significant majority of your edits cannot be verified or traced to any reliable source, and will have to be laboriously reverted, removed, or significantly re-written. We all appreciate your willingmness to contribute information to the Wikipedia, but again many your edits so far have been very problematic and must be reverted or cleaned up. Please take some time read the policies regarding adding material that is acceptable in the Wikipedia, preferably before making too many more edits. We do not want to discourage you from contributing, only to avoid adding material that cannot be easily or reasonably verified by other users. Especially please avoid adding statements like "This contributor once heard ...". Self-made references of that nature cannot stand in the Wikipedia and must be deleted. Materials of that nature might be appropriate for a Blog page, web forum, or fan page, but not in an encyclopedia, and just because you posted it at www.amiright.com and got "verification" from someone there does NOT make it verifiable or encyclopedic. Thank you for your understanding. --T-dot ( Talk/contribs ) 13:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Very well...I only cited "family references," if that's the right term, because I had no other source to refer to. Where I have a verifiable source I cite it, as you've no doubt observed. :) Dougie monty 21:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Off-topic color edits

I reverted your monopoly entries in Red, Yellow, and Maroon. The color articles are about the colors, not about every place that color appears. Dicklyon 04:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

sigh: Very well; I had added those edits because, after all, Monopoly is such a famous board game and color-groups are critical in amassing a fortune necessary to win... Dougie monty 07:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jim Gilliam

The LA Times note should include the date of the issue, or a different source which mentions the article (in other words, where did you read it?). MisfitToys 20:18, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

I've done a little more checking on the Gilliam story; see the talk page. MisfitToys (talk) 00:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] January 2008

Please do not add unsourced or original content. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. JNW (talk) 15:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Lack of documentation seems to be a long-standing issue. A review of your contributions, as well as much previous correspondence on your talk page, suggests as much. Thank you. JNW (talk) 15:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Specifics on recent contributions. The edit to Pat Nixon [1] claims that 'at one time the Macon News carried the headline', which is not a proper cite. Additionally, it is an anecdote of no value regarding the subject's notability and life. The same is true of this edit to Charles de Gaulle [2], which purports to document graffiti in a Canadian bathroom. An edit to Hi and Lois [3] was not acceptable given WP:NOR, and again, of little relevance...especially considering that comic characters often do not age discernibly. The edit to Archy and mehitabel, [4], also a bit of a non-seqitur, included a self-reference.
These, and many other well-meaning edits, are neither adequately cited, nor of encyclopedic substance. They are anecdotes, often off-topic, and based on personal observations. These concerns were eloquently addressed above by several editors, especially under 'Please cite sources' dating from September of last year. At issue is whether you have acknowledged previous messages from other editors by reading and following the Wikipedia guidelines regarding original research, neutrality, verifiability, and self-made references. I would add to that the suggestion to visit WP:ROC. JNW (talk) 15:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree with the concerns of JNW. If you continue to make unsourced and anecdotal contributions, you will likely continue to run into trouble with other editors. Also, to add a page to a category, you must edit the respective page, not the category page. See Help:Category for instructions. Sandstein (talk) 07:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Running gag

Hi there. Thank you for your recent contribution to Running gag. Consensus was reached (see here) that we should not include any examples in the article; at one point the article was almost entirely composed of examples, and as there were no real criteria for inclusion, it got rather out of hand. I have reverted your edit. -- JediLofty User ¦ Talk 12:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] William Kunstler

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at William Kunstler. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Croctotheface (talk) 22:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)