User talk:Pbdetroit
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RE: Porcelain Black Biography[edit]
Hello there, fellow trainwreck! Indeed, I am @lamebow. The one and only! I apologize for reversing your edits on Porcelain Black. While I'm ecstatic that another trainwreck cares enough about Porcelain to ensure her biography is up-to-date and accurate, but please be aware of how Wikipedia handles biographies of living persons; any contentious statements need to be sourced. In fact, all information on a "BLP", as this type of article is abbreviated as, needs to be sourced by a reliable source. I have added a section about Mannequin Factory being scrapped and mentioned it in the lead. I had to find a reliable source on the topic. Unfortunately, because she's not as popular as she used to be while RedOne actually gave a crap about her career, it's difficult to find reliable sources to prove our addition. Here on Wikipedia, we care more about "what we can prove" than "what we know". Sorry for reversing your hard work. I care about this article very much, and I want to make sure that we're "playing by the rules" on Wikipedia, so our article can sparkle and shine and keep its "Good" status. As I'm sure you notice from the green plus sign in the upper righthand corner, the article is of superior quality, and I've been tending to it for years now. "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" is also a Good Article. Next, we need to make sure "One Woman Army" gets up to that status, so it doesn't get deleted by the community for lack of notability. Well, any way, if you have any recommendations for how to improve the article, I'd be happy to help you find reliable sources and word things professionally. I went to college for Creative Writing, so writing is my forte.
At any rate, I heard from other fans that they disapproved of the lead of the article. Personally, I feel that the lead is the strongest part of the article. When we write lead paragraphs for an article, we need to make sure that it not only summarizes the contents of the whole article, but that it mentions all of the articles key points. Because it's the lead of a celebrity, it needs to mention all of her most prominent achievements in the eyes of the mainstream and general population. Also, we're trying to find a new image for the infobox, if you would like to aid in that process, make sure to check our WP:FLICKR for more details on what we need to be on the prowl for when adding an image. Unfortunately, we can't just add any old image.
I apologize it took me so long to respond to your message. Communicating with me via Twitter (@lamebow) and Facebook (David Petteys) is much easier for me. I rarely check my talk page on Wikipedia FYI. At any rate, I hope to collaborate with you in the future on this article and any other Porcelain Black-related articles on Wikipedia. Au revoir :) --Thevampireashlee (talk) 01:55, 23 April 2015 (UTC)