User talk:Monelisa

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Monelisa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016[edit]

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Peter Rice (executive). I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An additional note on Peter Rice (executive)... Your edit summary did not match up with the large number of changes you made to the page which included a substantial and unexplained removal of content. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:08, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Peter Rice (executive), you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  @Zackmann08: What do I need to put on the edit summary to be able to delete those paragraphs? The owner of the page wanted the bio streamlined and edited.

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Peter Rice (executive). Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 01:43, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for persistent disruptive editing. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:56, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Monelisa (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I understand that I was blocked for disruptive editing. I was updating a page with accurate info and streamlined a bio for someone and put info in the edit summary, but I was still blocked. I'm new to editing an existing page and maybe I misunderstood what should be in the edit summary. Please reconsider the block.

Accept reason:

Unblocked per below discussion Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Oshwah: I think you've called this one wrongly. It looks like Monelisa was making a good-faith attempt to trim a biography of a living person that was over-long and a bit self-congratulating. Indeed, on the talk page I see an IP wrote in 2013 : "Is it me, or does this read like a corporate biography? This page needs some seriously-NPOV changes to be done to it" so you can't really blame Monelisa for doing what was asked three years ago! Therefore this was a straight out edit-war; in fact Monelisa didn't even violate the three revert rule. An indefinite block for "persistent disruptive editing" (which an account created today with three live mainspace edits plainly is not) is plain and simple punishment. Can I unblock, please? Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:18, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, while I'm here, can I deliver a family-sized helping of seafood to Zackmann08 - who needs to read THIS right now and remember that no amount of Twinkle template notices can beat a good personalised message. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:18, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ritchie333 - Uh oh! If it's possible that this was good-faith editing, then yes absolutely please unblock! ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 17:31, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ritchie333:@Oshwah: Thanks guys!

I would also add that the old version of the article had a substantial amount of copyright violations, which the trim has helped resolve. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 17:48, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Monelisa - Please accept my humble apologies. Good faith editors should not have been blocked as you were. In the end, when bad assumptions are made and mistakes occur with warning and reporting users to be blocked, it was up to me to identify that and decline the report. The buck should have stopped with me, and that didn't happen. I'm sorry. If you need any assistance with editing or Wikipedia guidelines, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. Happy editing :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 17:54, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oshwah no worries. Thanks!

Peter Rice[edit]

I had to revert this edit as it is a copyright violation of text elsewhere on a website. Wikipedia text is covered by a license that isn't too common; essentially it allows anyone to reproduce the work and even sell it. That means somebody could create a book on Peter Rice using the text from his Wikipedia article and sell it online for $250 - it sounds morally dubious but it's not disallowed by the licence. Since most websites don't have this, we can't simply copy verbatim from sources online - we have to create our own text based on the information. (Cast you mind back to creative writing classes in school where the teacher said "write this in your own words" - it is like that). Copyright violation is serious as it's against the terms of use (which is why you can see "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted" at the top of the screen when you make an edit, and "you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL" at the bottom) so administrators have to take action against it. However, we realise most users add copyright violations in good faith and without malice, contrary to popular opinion, we're not ogres :-) Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:00, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]