LOUISAVELIS

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Hi LOUISAVELIS: Your name has been mentioned at the Administrators' Noticeboard for Incidents in a thread regarding edits by the IP 64.60.14.2. The thread is: [Howard editing his own article.2C or a friend of his.2C or someone impersonating]. Just to inform you of this; and as the IP editor has previously been advised, information on Wikipedia, particularly about living people, needs to have references so that it is verifiable. So I recommend you post at Talk:Ron Howard, as is best practice where an editor has a conflict of interest, and which will allow you to explain the reasoning behind the change you want to make (edit summaries are not the most effective location for this); but you should also supply a source for the date of marriage - such as a newspaper mention - and ideally a third-party source characterizing her as a writer. I hope this helps you navigate our system, which has developed in large part to protect living people from unreferenced allegations. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:17, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Ron Howard

Please look at Talk:Ron Howard and discuss your concerns there. While Wikipedia tries its best to respect living persons, it's an encyclopedia; articles reflect what reliable sources have said about subjects, rather than what those subjects may wish to showcase. It's also a collaborative effort. Up to this point, you have been edit warring, especially if you previously edited as the IP. Seen from that perspective - and because a major reason for the requirement for sources is to protect living people - others have in fact been quite accommodating toward your changes. But you need to start talking to those others. Our suggested model for cases of disagreement over edits is: bold - revert - discuss - under which you should have posted to the article talk page after being reverted, rather than reinstating your change and trying to justify it purely in edit summaries. If you look at the article now, you will see that I have provided a reference for the year of marriage, making a little "Personal life" section in which it belongs better than under "Early life". Have a look and see whether that is an acceptable solution. But either way, please do join the discussion on the article talk page. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:41, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Re your message

I live in England. I can't call you on that number. There aren't enough digits to connect. I've redacted it from my talk page. Anyway, what would a private conversation prove? We have article and user talk pages. If you wish to convey something privately you can email me (use the "email this user" facility in the section "tools" at the left of my talk page). However, if you really want to speak directly to me, you can call my office. Information here: [1]. If Mr or Mrs Howard wants to express their own views about the contents of the page they should contact the Wikipedia Foundation. Paul B (talk) 20:11, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I should add that Cheryl Howard [Crew] might be eligible for an article in her own right if there is sufficient coverage of her work as a writer, combined with the fact that she has had acting roles. However, as far as I can tell, she's written only one book. Is that so? Paul B (talk) 20:39, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I think other editors have explained what to do. You need a source. We now have a source, which I have placed on the talk page. The problem is that you just kept adding stuff with not source and asserting that you were speaking for Mrs Howard. Unfortunately we have no way of knowing whether or not that is true. Paul B (talk) 21:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)