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Angela Gheorghiu

Thank you for your message. I am replying here rather by email for transparency. I have edited this article in the past, but I am only one of many editors there, and have added very little of the actual content. I am a member of the Misplaced Pages Opera Project and several of us keep a watch on this page because in the past an editor tried to add material which was in clear violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on the biographies of living persons. You can read about the episode here. The work I have done on the article has been primarily to edit the prose for encyclopedic style and neutral point of view, add references to reliable sources, remove unsourced assertions (particularly if they violate Misplaced Pages's policies on the biographies of living persons), remove inappropriate commercial links, and remove copyright violations.

If you or Ms. Gheorghiu are concerned about the article, you need to read Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons/Help. Also essential is Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons, which is a key policy and contains much useful information.

Before you or anyone with a personal or professional relationship to Ms. Gheorghiu edits the article about her, you need to read Misplaced Pages:Conflict of interest and Misplaced Pages:Autobiography and make sure you follow the guidelines there.

If you wish to donate text or a photograph, you need to follow the instructions at Misplaced Pages:Donating copyrighted materials. Note that to donate a photograph, Ms. Gheorghiu must own the copyright to it herself or have obtained written proof from the photographer that he/she is willing to release the photograph on a free license. This means that anyone, not just Misplaced Pages is free to use the photograph as they wish, even for commercial purposes without having to pay royalties or ask for further permission. As for her official biography, I should warn you that these are usually unencyclopedic and promotional in tone. If added to the article, even under a free license, they will be edited by others to conform to encyclopedic style, neutral point of view (another key policy), and the Misplaced Pages Manual of Style. The Misplaced Pages article will not remain an exact replica of what is on her website or that of her management and in fact will probably be significantly altered. References will also be required to support the assertions made.

I will be away for the first two weeks of April, but if you need further advice, there are several noticeboards where you can seek help or further information from other editors:

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 14:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


Thank you very much. I'll start reading everything you suggested. --Madamabutterfly (talk) 17:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

  • Hi there. This kind of edit is not acceptable, and I see that another editor has reverted it. You cannot remove a huge chunk of an article and referenced information without discussing it first on the talk page of the article, and certainly should not do this without leaving an edit summary. As you have a clear conflict of interest, you must discuss changes in the article on the talk page first, and you need to declare your conflict of interest there. I also note that you have uploaded what is clearly a copyright professional photograph without stating the source, the name of the photographer, or who owns the copyright. As you have uploaded it now, you are claiming that you own the copyright. If you are not the photographer, and and do not have their permission, you cannot release it under a free license. If you are the photographer, you need to state this clearly. I should warn you that if you do not provide the necessary documentation and permission for this, the photo will probably be deleted. As I will be away, I've asked the Opera Project to keep an eye on the article. In the meantime, I strongly urge you to read the guidelines I linked above and make sure you understand them and follow them. And please leave an edit summary for each edit that you make to the article. Voceditenore (talk) 04:29, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

March 2011

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Angela Gheorghiu has been reverted.
Your edit here to Angela Gheorghiu was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.youtube.com/GrandTier) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Misplaced Pages. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Misplaced Pages's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Misplaced Pages's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)