There's a diference between a biography and a press release, my friend. Look it up yourself. Alternatively, I will request that several thousand of Peter's fans modify the entry as he would wish it to appear.
I note this edit of yours, which has the summary Changed complete entry to official biography of Peter Lindbergh. The change is made at the request of the artist by one of his employees, John Conley.
Wikipedia is not a place for official biographies. Lindbergh is welcome to put his official biography on his own website.
What you added is exemplified by this paragraph:
- Those words were written by Wim Wenders, who recently handed his close friend Peter Lindbergh a Lucie Award, colloquially known as the photographers Oscar. Someone once described Peter’s work as a collection of love letters to women he considers beautiful, be they fashion models or actresses like Gena Rowlands and Jeanne Moreau. It is an elegant salute to Peter’s essential romanticism but he has also photographed a lot of men and male icons, including James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson and Mick Jagger, to name just four.
I'm going to cut it, and most of what you added. Alternatively, I could retain it, but if I did I'd alter it in the short term to something like this:
- Those words were written{{cn}} by Wim Wenders, who recently handed his close friend{{fact}} Peter Lindbergh a Lucie Award, colloquially known as the photographers Oscar. Someone{{who}} once described Peter’s work as a collection of love letters to women he considers beautiful, be they fashion models or actresses like Gena Rowlands and Jeanne Moreau.{{fact}} It{{vague}} [the award? the collection? something else?] is an elegant salute to Peter’s essential romanticism{{dubious}} [original synthesis?] but he has also photographed a lot of men, including James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson and Mick Jagger.{{fact}}
I hope you'll realize that an official biography such as this is very different from an encyclopedia article. Please also read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Autobiography. -- Hoary ( talk) 15:05, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article
Peter Lindbergh, you may have a
conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's
neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Wuh Wuz Dat 15:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to
Peter Lindbergh.
Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "
soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the
welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Wuh
Wuz
Dat
15:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
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- Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?
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There's a diference between a biography and a press release, my friend. Look it up yourself. Alternatively, I will request that several thousand of Peter's fans modify the entry as he would wish it to appear.
I note this edit of yours, which has the summary Changed complete entry to official biography of Peter Lindbergh. The change is made at the request of the artist by one of his employees, John Conley.
Wikipedia is not a place for official biographies. Lindbergh is welcome to put his official biography on his own website.
What you added is exemplified by this paragraph:
- Those words were written by Wim Wenders, who recently handed his close friend Peter Lindbergh a Lucie Award, colloquially known as the photographers Oscar. Someone once described Peter’s work as a collection of love letters to women he considers beautiful, be they fashion models or actresses like Gena Rowlands and Jeanne Moreau. It is an elegant salute to Peter’s essential romanticism but he has also photographed a lot of men and male icons, including James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson and Mick Jagger, to name just four.
I'm going to cut it, and most of what you added. Alternatively, I could retain it, but if I did I'd alter it in the short term to something like this:
- Those words were written{{cn}} by Wim Wenders, who recently handed his close friend{{fact}} Peter Lindbergh a Lucie Award, colloquially known as the photographers Oscar. Someone{{who}} once described Peter’s work as a collection of love letters to women he considers beautiful, be they fashion models or actresses like Gena Rowlands and Jeanne Moreau.{{fact}} It{{vague}} [the award? the collection? something else?] is an elegant salute to Peter’s essential romanticism{{dubious}} [original synthesis?] but he has also photographed a lot of men, including James Coburn, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson and Mick Jagger.{{fact}}
I hope you'll realize that an official biography such as this is very different from an encyclopedia article. Please also read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Autobiography. -- Hoary ( talk) 15:05, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article
Peter Lindbergh, you may have a
conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's
neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
- editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
- participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
- linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).
Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Wuh Wuz Dat 15:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to
Peter Lindbergh.
Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "
soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the
welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Wuh
Wuz
Dat
15:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Why can't I edit Wikipedia?
Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. You have violated one or more of our rules, including rules against adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements, using Wikipedia for promotion, and editing inappropriately with a conflict of interest. This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia's policies. Although Wikipedia has a great many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, it is considered inappropriate for such groups to use Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.
- Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?
Probably not. See Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, or organization. If this does not fit in with your goals here, you will not be allowed to edit again. Consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.
- What can I do now?
You are still welcome to write about something other than your company or organization. If you do intend to make useful contributions on some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:
- Add the text
{{ unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}}below this message box. - Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
- Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
- Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.