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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Kav2015 (talk | contribs) at 14:01, 10 January 2016 (→‎COI tag). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

G.I.T

I know Dave Weiner went to G.I.T, but I've never heard of Steve going there. Anyone have a source on that?

He didn't, he went to Berklee[1]

Wah pedal

Would he not use the Morley Bad horsie 2? i dont know whether thats worth putting in the article or not.

Length of the article

This is now starting to become a bit of a concern IMHO - see WP:TOOLONG. The article is almost double the size of the Joe Satriani entry and contains quite a lot of detailed information that might be better split off elsewhere. Karst (talk) 23:59, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fully agreed, but handling bio articles of this size is new to me. All I can do is copyedit, but shunting material to new sub-articles is not my forté. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 16:33, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

COI tag

I placed the {{COI}} tag on this article because Kav2015 has admitted on their talk page that they work for via.com The image "stevevaigclef.jpg" is owned by the subject himself (Steve Vai) and we (employees of the subject)were given expressed instructions/permission to use it. The user has made substantial changes since November 2015. Mlpearc (open channel) 04:53, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That would be vai.com. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 13:16, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify, I notified the editor in November 2015 of the issues surrounding WP:COI. Karst (talk) 14:27, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thing is, I see a lot of the additions as good—Vai has done a lot of groundbreaking stuff within the guitar community, for many decades, and it's good to have all of it expanded upon with refs. It's just that right now, the article is starting to read very much like an advertisement, with more material flooding in weekly and making it tricky to keep track of what's acceptable. At some point, any editor heavily involved with the subject should step back for a while and allow the material to be checked over and copyedited by an impartial group of editors. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 15:16, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It needs a hefty copyedit. And with the CoI tag Kav2015 has to cease editing the page and put in requests only here on the talk page. Karst (talk) 15:57, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, We are happy to work with you and step back from editing the page, but please note that the information we have included is cited. The end goal is not to advertise, but to portray the subject in an accurate, well-written manner that is easily accessible to the reader. Thank you, vai.com 16:43, 9 January 2016 (UTC)Kav2015
As you are a paid editor, all your contributions will have be under review. If there any issues then they can be raised here. Karst (talk) 10:24, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,

Mr. Vai had called us and expressed his concerns about the accuracy of the information on his page, so we set out to help update it. Neither of us are being paid for these edits and our only goal is to dispel inaccuracies and bring the page up to date. If you look at the previous page before our edits, it was full of out of order, often wrong, trivial information. Often the first thing done when researching a notable figure is to read their Wikipedia page, so it is important to have one that accurately displays (in a well-written fashion) the subject, while adhering to the guidelines of Wikipedia. It is surprising that we have received lashback for our complete overhaul and fixing of the page, as the page before our edits obviously needed work. Thank you, vai.com 13:58, 10 January 2016 (UTC)Kav2015

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