User talk:Paul Erik

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[edit] Hey, you haven't got a welcome message yet. Here you go!

Hello Paul Erik! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! – PeaceNT 05:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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[edit] Rename

As requested, I have changed your name. You can now log in using the new username. Warofdreams talk 19:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Letter

Dear Paul Erik.

To clarify things.

I own the copyright for the Matthew Jay biography. I wrote it. Therefore there is no legal necessity for me to 'submit a new version of the article.' The copyright notice was actually put there solely for your benefit, merely to indicate the origin of the piece, in order to attest to the article's authorised source, in the hope that you would respect its legitimacy, and refrain from deleting it repeatedly.

I created the entry for Matthew on 10 September 2006, and it remained there until you deleted it and over-wrote it with your own entry recently, (which incidentally, no offence intended, contains mistakes).

To be very clear: I am the Promotion's Manager for Jay's Music Ltd, Matthew's current record label, and as such I am his officially sanctioned and authorised representative, with specific responsibility for maintaining and monitoring Matthew's public profile. This includes the running of Matthew's OFFICIAL web site www.crookedsmile.com, as well as Matthew's OFFICIAL Myspace profile, which your text erroneously refers to as 'fan tribute' sites. A visit to each URL on your part will verify that these are NOT fan sites.

Much of my work for Matthew's label includes writing customised biographical pieces on Matthew, as well as press releases and promotional literature. As such, the creation of Matthew's Wikipedia entry comes under my professional remit.

I would like to stress that the biography contained in the Wikipedia entry I created for Matthew is completely endorsed and authorised by Matthew's record label and family, and all its content is entirely accurate, up to date, and verifiable by his family, friends, colleagues, current label, and also EMI, with whom Jays Music Ltd retains connections and enjoys consultation privileges (which include advice on artist representation).

When I restored the text last night to its original version, I placed the copyright message there as a friendly hint for you to realise that the biography I have placed there is from an OFFICIAL source. I had hoped therefore that you would respect its authenticity and official status, and consequently leave the text as it stood. As unfortunately this has not been the case, I would now like to politely request that from this point on you cease your editing of this entry and allow it to stand in its original form.

If you feel this request is unfair in any way, and indeed you have a legitimate connection to Matthew, or access to verifiable information beyond the text included in his official biography, please feel free to get in touch with me to discuss the matter further. I will be happy to forward any correspondence to the appropriate personnel at both his previous and present record labels if you wish.

You can get in touch at: contact@crookedsmile.com Please make sure that the words 'Matthew Jay' appear in the subject line to avoid delays within our spam filtering software.

In any event, I would like you to contact me so that we may resolve this issue in a friendly informal manner.

I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, R Magowan Promotions Manager, Jays Music Ltd.

Paul Erik, after seeing your message on Village Pump, I thought I should chime in and mention that this Ms Magowan really shouldn't be editing such an article in the first place, as that would most likely fall under our Conflict of Interest guideline. That is, if she does legitimately represent the subject in question. There's also the problem of submitting copyrighted material to the article, as you covered in your message on her talk page; unless, of course, this manager consents to releasing said text to GFDL or other free license. I'm certainly not an expert here, but I definitely believe you are justified in reverting the article, and also believe that a fairly close watch might be in order for this Ms Magowan's edits of other articles in the future. I also cleaned up the minor mess that was made of your talk page...hope you don't mind! -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 23:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avalon (disambig)

Why do you feel that no descriptions are needed for ONLY the Places category, whereas you left in descriptions for the Books, Cinema, Comics, Games, Graveyards, Music, Organizations, Schools, People, Technology, Television, Theaters, and Vehicles? Alvis 05:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, that's a good question. First of all, I think I was too hasty in editing away your description of Avalon, New Jersey. Your description would help people who typed in Avalon and knew they were looking for a seashore resort but did not necessarily know it was in New Jersey. As for the other entries on the page, I think many of those descriptions ought to be shortened, as per the guideline on MoS:DP, which says, "The description associated with a link should be kept to a minimum, just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link." --Paul Erik 13:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)