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Happy editing! Jalen Barks (Woof) 05:06, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

November 2025

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that your recent edit to Mike Seeger did not have an edit summary. Collaboration among editors is fundamental to Wikipedia, and every edit should be explained by a clear edit summary, or by discussion on the talk page. Please use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit and/or to describe what it changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

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Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. When logged in to your Wikipedia account, you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary), and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! NOLA1982 (talk) 05:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Jimmy Keane. When removing a maintenance template, please either ensure that the problem that the template refers to has been resolved, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as this change has been reverted. Take a look at getting started to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 23:26, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Balalaika, you may be blocked from editing. --Altenmann >talk 11:06, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Ads

I like Wikipedia pages not having them.

Zeke Zekesmukler (talk) 01:23, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

They're not ads. They are maintenance templates. Sundayclose (talk) 23:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Sorry I removed some of the maintenance templates. Zekesmukler (talk) 00:22, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

December 2025

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Art Rosenbaum when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:45, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I heard Art Rosenbaum play banjo and harmonica on a CD of “The Young Fogies”. It’s a CD of various artists. I heard him play fiddle on a YouTube video and heard him on a banjo CD where he is playing just banjo. Zekesmukler (talk) 19:40, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

And Art Rosenbaum played fiddle with Ed Teague on banjo on YouTube. I meant “Po’ Boy” when I wrote to you about “Poor Boy”. Zekesmukler (talk) 19:46, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Kevin Burke (musician), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources to see how to add references to an article. Please stop inserting birth date and other biographical information into articles without adding a reliable source that backs up your text. Just because a biographical article already contains citations near birth and death information does not mean those existing citations include the dates you are adding. This is especially true for biographies of living people which have more stringent criteria on birth information due to privacy etc. concerns. In the past few days, I have seen you insert unsourced birth dates into articles on Kevin Burke (which I reverted once and then you re-edited with a different birth date), Dudley Laufman, and Andy Statman. These are just some examples that I have reviewed due to the artists being on my Watchlist.

Stop doing this until you learn more about WP policies and procedures. Right now you are making more work for other editors. Thanks for your attention to this important matter. NOLA1982 (talk) 18:34, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I just read the links you sent me in your message. I read about when Andy Statman and Dudley Laufman’s birthdays are on their Facebook pages and when Kevin Burke’s birthday is on the internet. Zekesmukler (talk) 21:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

You need to understand the difference between "reading something on the internet" and citing reliable sources. Facebook is NOT a reliable source for wikipedia editing, per WP:RSPFB. There are lots of WP policies and procedures that you should familiarize yourself with.

I see that you are relatively new here, and I would strongly suggest that you listen to more experienced editors when they tell you how to be a better editor either here on your talk page (you have only started to routinely add an edit summary to your posts today, but thanks for doing that and please keep it up) or in others' edit summaries when they follow up on one of your edits. I also suggest that you take a tutorial, such as WP:The_Wikipedia_Adventure before you continue to make lots of edits. Thank you. NOLA1982 (talk) 22:28, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to remove maintenance templates without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Kentucky Thunder, you may be blocked from editing. Sundayclose (talk) 23:14, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Alan Bern when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:27, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Glad you fixed the error. Zekesmukler (talk) 04:51, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Bob Carlin, you may be blocked from editing. Sundayclose (talk) 16:12, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Sorry about what I did at Bob Carlin and Mark Schatz. I saw that some recordings on the Mark Schatz discography list have asterisks and some have no asterisks. Zekesmukler (talk) 19:10, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Infobox parameters

Please don't add a parameter to an infobox before checking whether the parameter is valid, as you did here. You were told about this previously. Nonvalid parameters do not show up in the infobox, and the edit just clutters the infobox and edit history. To check the parameters for the infobox for musical artists, go to Template:Infobox musical artist. Follow a similar procedure if it's a different type of infobox. Sundayclose (talk) 22:28, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Also stop adding unsourced content, as you did here. You were also told about this previously. Please don't ignore warnings. It could result in loss of editing privileges. Sundayclose (talk) 22:36, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Some friendly advice

You've edited less than six weeks, but you've already accumulated several warnings for problem edits. Wikipedia gives a little flexibility to new editors, but you've reached the point where that assumption of good faith is coming to an end. i'd hate to see you lose your editing privileges. I urge you to slow down and see how more experience editors edit. I also strongly advise you to seek a mentor to help you learn the ropes. Go to WP:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area for details about finding someone. Sundayclose (talk) 17:16, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

January 2026

Your edits are becoming disruptive. You have been warned multiple times about the need to use preview to check your edits, yet you continue to introduce unknown parameters into articles. You did this again at Peter Alsop when you modified the page, you once again did this. If you continue your disruptive editing, you may find yourself blocked from editing. Please take the time to review your edits moving forward. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:07, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry about the edits. Zekesmukler (talk) 16:44, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Repeatedly apologizing will not prevent a block after your next problem edit. Again, I insist that you to seek a mentor to help you avoid a block. Go to WP:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area for details about finding someone. Sundayclose (talk) 19:54, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

John Vesey

I put John Vesey “The First Month of Spring” on the Paul Brady Wikipedia page a long time ago. Paul Brady’s other Shanachie albums (Andy McGann “It’s A Hard Road to Travel”, Tommy Peoples “The High Part of the Road”, and Andy McGann and Paddy Reynolds “Fiddle Duet”) are also on there. Vesey is an Irish fiddler that was born in 1924 and died in 1995. His real name was John Francis Vesey and he was born in Ballincurry, County Sligo. There was a John Vesey tribute 2-CD set that was made in 1998. That’s called “Sligo Fiddler”. Label on it is Not On Label. Zekesmukler (talk) 22:54, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

The Rough Guide to Irish Music

I haven’t changed the cuts on that page. But I knew that Paul Brady is one of the various artists on the 2005 album, The Rough Guide to Irish Music. All various artists on the 1996 album, The Rough Guide to Irish Music are not him. Zekesmukler (talk) 00:44, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Mike Auldridge

I saw 2 Mike Auldridge compilation albums on your Mike Auldridge discography page and read that there was only 1. So I changed 1 to 2. Zekesmukler (talk) 21:12, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Vernon Derrick

Before I put the Vernon Derrick discography on your website, I read about it on Discogs. They didn't know when Buckskin was released until I told them that it was released in 1972 after reading that on the internet. Zekesmukler (talk) 20:43, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

April 2026

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced or poorly sourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Eric Nagler. Particularly solid sourcing is needed for family of biography subjects.—Odysseus1479 01:37, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Before I did that at Eric Nagler; I wrote to Talk: Eric Nagler to say that Eric had a wife named Shelley McCarthy who he divorced and children named Christopher and Lauren Nagler. I did not put Shelley on Eric Nagler. Zekesmukler (talk) 01:52, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Even that Talk-page posting was improper, because it doesn’t say where the names of those private individuals have been published. The BLP policy applies to all pages on the project, not only articles.—Odysseus1479 02:04, 9 April 2026 (UTC)