Agringaus

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About your page...

Hey, Agringaus! I just wanted to explain in a little more detail why I decided to delete your page. The first problem was that it was directly copied from http://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/266420, which means that the article was a copyright infringement. All of the text on Wikipedia must be freely licensed, in accordance with the terms of the CC-BY-SA license that Wikipedia uses. The material you copied isn't released under such a license, so we are unable to use it.

Even without the copyright problem, though, the page was too promotional in tone for Wikipedia. Our articles are supposed to be neutral, and refrain from being unduly positive, and your article read more like a self-promoting advertisement than a neutral encyclopedia article. Wikipedia isn't a place for advertisements.

Now, don't worry about it too much! These kinds of mistakes happen all the time, and nobody will hold it against you as long as you learn. Wikipedia's rules can be tricky at first, but it's important to try to go along with them as much as you can. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask me on my talk page, or you can ask the Teahouse, which is a place for new users to get any help they need in a friendly environment. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 16:03, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was procedural close. To move the contents of your user page to mainspace (article space), just add {{subst:submit}} to the top of the article. --BDD (talk) 00:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

User:Agringaus → Jess Cagle – Mistake agringaus 23:08, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jess Cagle

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Huon (talk) 01:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jess Cagle

The article Jess Cagle has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

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Nomination of Fran Hauser for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Fran Hauser is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Hello, Agringaus. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Fran Hauser, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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I am not affiliated with Time Inc. and none of information in this article related to me or helps me in any possible way. --agringaus 08:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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By no means I have any intention to remove the marked for deletion comments. Instead, I am learning from all of you on how to improve the content I contributed. --agringaus 08:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

• Avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

I linked the article to Time Inc. where Fran Hauser is working. I don't work there, so, all the comments about conflict of interest are redundant --agringaus 08:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

• Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

I am trying. It's very overwhelming to be a new contributor. --agringaus 08:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Please do not bite me, give me a chance. Follow the policies that you created yourself.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Web Technology Fellows at Time Inc. should not be pulling this kind of crap. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:41, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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I've replied in detail :) Hope it helps. Charmlet (talk) 04:27, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Jess Cagle for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jess Cagle is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jess Cagle until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Orange Mike | Talk 01:45, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

There is nothing left off the original article. I'll ask my former colleague about what do they want to do with it, but I think I'll leave it for now as I don't have any more information to add. (agringaus 02:00, 30 June 2013 (UTC))

re: Fran Hauser

First, thanks for the flower :)

Now, onto the stuff that I feel bad having to tell you, but must anyway. "Fran's biography should be treated with special care as she's a high-profile public person" - We don't treat any biography different than others. All must be notable, and all must follow the biographies of living persons policy. You gave some facts, and while I agree that she's doing great things in her life, if she doesn't have significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject then she's not notable, and can't have an article. I'm sure that if all the things you are telling us are true that she'd have some pretty major coverage in some pretty major sources. Aside from that, there's not much I can help you do to prevent it's deletion. Remember that it's deletion is not anything bad about her, just that it's not time yet for her to have an article. Charmlet (talk) 02:48, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. I'll go over all available sources again, and will read about significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject which I haven't done yet. I went through some other articles and found plenty like this: Alyssa_Apsel, or, this: Margaret_Martonosi, and many others. If anything, Wikipedia should have some consistency, right? I think Fran has done a lot more for the society and people than some of the others whose articles exist with no notices from 2012... I'll try to get more information on Fran, just to be fair. Thank you so much, so far! --agringaus 03:12, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

See, that's the thing. You say "I think Fran has done a lot more...", and if we relied on "I think he's great and amazing and the best ever" we'd have articles on everyone, their dog, their mother, their teachers, etc. etc. That's why we have to rely on the significant coverage in (yadda yadda). I've proposed Alyssa Apsel for deletion. For the article on Margared Martonosi, I find these examples, while not all significant coverage, in my opinion they leave enough to be notable: [1] [2] [3] among others. Thus, I don't feel comfortable doing anything at this time (with regards to deletion of her article), but if I get a chance (busy me) I'll look even further into it. And it's no problem helping :) Charmlet (talk) 04:18, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

• I removed all your pretty boxes as you have no right to give your comments more status then the votes of other users. Thanks. Spartaz ^Humbug! 18:17, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. I am trying new things every day but agreed. --agringaus 03:47, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Your edit to WP:REFUND

With this edit earlier today, you caused a major disruption to the WP:REFUND page. I guess what happened is that some time on 28 or 29 June you copied the whole page, edited it offline, and today pasted it back. The problem with that is that other things were going on during that time. If you click on "this edit" you will see the "diff", the comparison between the page before and after your edit, which shows that as well as making your own changes you brought back 14 threads which had been archived since you took your copy, and more seriously removed seven new threads which had been added. Fortunately, everything is recorded in the history, so I have been able to rebuild the page, but please don't do that again. With a long page like this, it is best to click the "edit" link in the header of the section you are interested in, which lets you edit that with no danger of disturbing the rest of the page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion

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