User talk:Kaaren Ragland

January 2024

Hello, I'm Rehsarb. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Kaaren Ragland, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Rehsarb (talk) 19:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wish to edit my biography as I have now obtained all the relevant references i.e.

newspaper articles, tv/film references, awards, albums etc.

For some reason I have been blocked for threats which I would never take part in.

I just want an accurate posting as I am sure you do. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 08:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Kaaren Ragland, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Rehsarb (talk) 20:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Kaaren Ragland, you may be blocked from editing. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:10, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits to Kaaren Ragland could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. – 64andtim ^(talk) 02:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Kaaren Ragland. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Kaaren Ragland, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Rehsarb (talk) 19:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 22:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Kaaren Ragland) for a period of 48 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Isabelle Belato ^🏳‍🌈 02:32, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I am just seeing this. I am not nor would I threaten anyone. I was just trying to

complete my biography which is significantly more than what you are including. Whoever is

editing my page is misinformed. You can check all my references in theaters mentioned with dates. 50+ interviews om tv shows like the BBC etc. imbd and the site The Sounds of the

Supremes on Facebook. I do not lean on that court case from 30 years ago even though I won it and the countersuit. Those who do, have an agenda. The lack of correct information was brought to my attention by multiple people and I took the time to correct it. You should review the corrected bio which I sent a couple of days ago. Always go to the source when you can, the living person. There were 50 edits by an anonymous entity who knew nothing of my biography but who had an agenda. Thank you in advance for unblocking my biograohy. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 18:02, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, but Wikipedia policy is to not go to the source when you can, because that is not verifiable. A core policy of Wikipedia is that people should be able to look at our sourcing and judge for themselves if it is adequate. That's why we have an entire policy on what constitutes a reliable source. We cannot just take your word for it, in part because we have yet to verify you really are who you claim to be. Even if that becomes verified, we don't just allow someone to say a thing is true. We need it to be in published, reliable sources such as books, newspapers, or magazines. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 18:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Threats, attitude, BLP policy

Ms. Ragland, if you are having issues with people editing your biography, you do not own this site or the article because you did not create it. I am basically cleaning up your biography and you are making threats to others about reporting them to their residence state or city department, which is not sensemaking because that your writing on the article sounded unencyclopedic because that in much encyclopedias, we need a source on what you are saying in this article because poorly unsourced content on the Biography of living persons policy should be removed immediately. I gave sources, but what you are saying in "see courts" will not work because that you do not have no direction to that at all, and you only have to cite a source for that by using any source online which is reliable - like Google Books or LA times. I am not attacking you, or doing something else to you, you are clearly edit warring - so otherwise, do not continue because will you get blocked for that as well. So, all of your contributions are not even erased there, I was clearly correcting it because it did not sound encyclopedic and all of it was unsourced. I removed other unsourced content because of the Biography of living persons policy (which I just mentioned). TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 02:34, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sir/Madam: I will take you at your word that your problem with my edits is the sourcing although as I am the subject of this biography I am the best source. If you are going to

need references I will get in touch with my publicist. I have many theater credits,

newspaper reviews, awards etc. I will also furnish dates. Also several tv/film credits.

As for the the court case, that was over 20 years ago and I won and also the subsequent

countersuit because not only did my attorneys provide my contract as a member of the group

but I received a significant settlement because of the misinformation regarding my

membership. Having said that, although The Supremes was a significant part of my background

that was only 8 1/2 years and I have been blessed to be part of many other major Black

entertainment projects. I will get those sources to you later in the week and perhaps

after that my complete bio will be reinstated. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 08:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise, get sources from books, newspapers, and magazines, like I just did. If this is your own biography, let people edit it, because they just came there to add content, and after the discussion at the Supremes article talk, I do not know if or not you are the real Kaaren Ragland. Also per WP:COI, it says that writing about your own biography and taking full control of it is not permitted on here. But, I had read about it years ago and I wanted to prove the information with reliable sources, regarding the case. Otherwise, your page does not lack much of 1000% notability and it is currently being discussed on the Supremes talk whenever or not it will be merged. Thank you.TheGreatestLuvofAll (talk) 12:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your publicist is not a valid source. See our reliable sources policy. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 14:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will just get dates and publications from my pubicist. He has been accumulating this for years. Thanks again. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 01:25, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 23:14, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action.

You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia while the threats stand or the legal action is unresolved.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 00:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am trying to edit my page so that it is accurate regarding my career. I have all the

requisite articles/references now and am trying to correct the situation. I understand that there are fans that want to undermine my membership in The Supremes, however, The Supremes

was only 8 1/2 years of my life and a small part of my contribution to the entertainment business. Therefore I respectfully request to be able to correct my page. In the alternative, please remove all references to The Supremes, other group members and inaccurate legal references. Also, at no time have I nor would I threaten anyone. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 21:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I continue to try and edit my page accurately but am unable to do so.

There have not been any threats to anyone, just trying to add my credits

references, awards etc. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 23:34, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This block needs to be removed so that I can add a more accurate and

fulsome bio with references. Thank you in advance for handling this. Kaaren Ragland (talk) 21:12, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you are the article subject, I would highly recommend you get in touch with the Volunteer Response Team to verify your identity; if you are someone else, then you should not be impersonating an article subject. Besides retracting the legal threats, I advise you to read the notices above and address the concerns which other editors have told you about. If you continue to make legal threats here, your talkpage access will be disabled. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 00:46, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please send an email to info-en

wikimedia.org including your real name and your Wikipedia username to receive instructions from our volunteer response team about account verification. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editing on your own or someone else's behalf

Please see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help for more information.

Wikipedia's policy on how to handle material about living persons, biographies of living persons, applies to every page on the project, including talk pages. If Wikipedia has published material about you, or someone you represent, and you need help, you can:

post a correction on the article's talk page and ask that it be implemented;
ask for assistance at the biographies of living persons noticeboard;
place {{adminhelp}} on your user talk page, which will attract an administrator;
contact the Wikimedia Foundation's team of volunteers at info-en-q@wikimedia.org, with a link to the page and details of the problem.

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"All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking."

Please discuss content and sourcing on article talk page and achieve consensus for any changes Please make WP:EDITREQUESTs on the article's talk page. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]