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Hi Stifle,

I'm one of Marcus Goldhaber's publicists and he asked me to create a wiki on him.

Although he is not of the stature of Michael Buble or what not, I really don't understand why his page was deleted.

He is a signed artist, and his first album was reviewed by People magazine (among other noted publications).

None of the content is a violation of copyrights because it was written by myself and another publicist.

Please provide an explanation for the deletion of his page....

If you find it too PR-y, I will most certainly make edits. But otherwise, I think he deserves a wiki page.

thank you. Termeh ( talk) 19:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)termeh reply

I will restore the page but you will need to make it a bit less promotional. Stifle ( talk) 19:30, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

hi again,

i did not intend on the page coming off as promotional. i made it factual. but obviously, you disagree. can you please be specific on what i should remove from the page, or edit?

thank you

Termeh ( talk) 19:43, 25 July 2008 (UTC)termeh reply

You would, at least, need to remove puffery like "has received noteworthy praise", "inspired by his upbringing", "foster his flair", "unique story-telling approach", etc. I would strongly suggest you look at an established article in the Category:Jazz musicians and try and bring it to a similar style.

I am sorry, but I can't help you to improve the article you wrote. If you need further help, please try asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jazz, Wikipedia:Help desk, or Wikipedia:Requests for assistance. Stifle ( talk) 20:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

I made the edits to Marcus's page. I hope you will approve them.

With regards to the 'puffery' you mentioned, you may want to also warn the following pages who used the same 'puffery' style phrases:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Canter - inspired by his upbringing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_petit_Nicolas - unique story telling style...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_for_sad_children - unique story telling style...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Browne- flair for composition rarely seen ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Termeh ( talk • contribs) 20:36, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your message. In future, please sign your messages by typing ~~~~ at the end.

Neither I nor anyone else is responsible for approving edits on Wikipedia.

If you feel another article needs to be changed, feel free to edit it. Stifle ( talk) 20:44, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

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By your user name, it appears that you represent a company or organization. Please read our conflict of interest guidelines. We welcome your contributions here, but please refrain from writing about your own company's services and personnel. Thanks, and happy editing! AKRadecki ^Speaketh 02:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC) reply

The above is a canned COI note. Let me expand - you've made it clear that you're a publicist, and that's fine. But you need to clearly understand our conflict-of-interest policies, and need to understand that this precludes your editing or creating articles about people and organizations that are your clients. Offering to write wiki articles about your clients (ie, being a "professional" wikipedia article writer) is one of the fastest ways to get banned around here. You are more than welcome (urged, in fact) to write about subjects you have an interest in but are not professionally or personally connected to. What concerns me is that you were notified some months ago about the COI issue, and that doesn't seem to have stopped you from using Wikipedia to publicize your clients. AKRadecki ^Speaketh 16:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC) reply