understanding how wikipedia does things hello mike i see you have some concerns about the article first off i want to note that this is exactly why we always tell people don't try to write your own article on wikipedia i was willing to write one for you because i think you're an interesting subject but you really need to stop trying to work on your own article it is absolutely impossible for you to be objective about your own work and also you keep trying to make edits which are not properly sourced to answer a few points why are the links to the national traditional country music association pages and the library of congress recorded sound reference center underlined in red as non existent these sites do exist they are non existed on wikipedia we aren't saying they're non existent in general just that nobody has written an article about them here yet the red means someone should write an article about them before they were blue because you were re routing the link to go to their own homepage but we don't allow such external links to be used in the middle of the page like that and also because that obscures the fact that we need somebody to write those articles regarding your nickname if you say plantenga is wrong i've removed the nickname however you cannot simply go and fill in whatever nickname you want in its place unless you have a clearly cited source you really need to read our guideline warning wp autobiography to understand exactly why you shouldn't be messing with your biography you should not be making any edits on that page except to remove blatant vandalism again you are literally the last person on earth who should be editing your own biography on wikipedia because doing so compromises the neutrality of the project lastly i really suggest you read wp verifiability not truth the long short is that a given fact is only useful if it can be cited to a good source and no matter how true a fact is it's no good on an encyclopedia without citation so while we of course recognize that in the larger world accuracy is the goal on an encyclopedia our concern is how documentable a fact is so on a certain level we literally don't care whether a fact in plantenga's book or in a washington post article is completely accurate we care that it's clearly documented whereas if you make corrections based on your personal knowledge that just makes the article weaker because each such edit decreases its verifiability at this point you really need to just accept that you have a biography on wikipedia and it's sourced to published works and be moderately happy with that wikipedia is absolutely not here for you to get the rest of the story out or build your brand or whatnot we're just here to compile and organize information that has already been published by neutral experts so please refrain from trying to edit your own article it always ends badly and wastes time for everyone involved to have to change things back and forth and just trust the wikipedia community to do our best to keep things running smoothly