C.Fred

Sorry

His last words were not said by him, but by John I of Johnsburg instead, who also happened to be a Nazi. So, I confused the two. It will not happen again, thank you.

- TrueReveration TrueReveriation (talk) 01:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

John Paul (scientist)

Hi. Thank you for commenting on the speedy deleted article. I'm a beginner on Wikipedia. I spent months writing an article then hours editing the article in response to comments made by Wikipedia editors. It was about a scientist who worked in Scotland and was deceased at the end of last century. I still am not sure how it breaches copyright violations but certainly no-one stands to gain in any way, publicity or otherwise from the article. I would prefer not to have to rework the entire article. Is there not an old copy of it on Wikipedia somewhere? Gcwcd (talk) 16:38, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

P.S. Thanks for being available to talk. I doesn't seem possible to talk to the person who speedy deleted it. Gcwcd (talk) 16:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

@Gcwcd As I noted, the old copy was speedy deleted because of copyright concerns. It is still in the system archive and accessible by administrators. You can ask at WP:Requests for undeletion if somebody is willing to mail you a copy of the text. I don't email old text myself. —C.Fred (talk) 17:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi C. Fred. Thank you very much for sending on this WP:Request for undeletion link. As a beginner this was quite a shock. I will make a request that someone can email a copy of the text. This is good news that I can request this. Gcwcd (talk) 17:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

World Runners Association disruption moved to other articles

Hi C.Fred, the disruption has moved to Russ Cook and Project Africa. mostly by an IP who is adding their own commentary to the articles (ex. [1] and [2]). Can you please watchlist them and keep an eye out? S0091 (talk) 17:34, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

@S0091 The Cook article had made my radar; Project Africa is on it now. —C.Fred (talk) 02:14, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of an addition to Franklyn Harvey's Wikipedia page on 24 February 2024

I was surprised as the de-facto executor of Franklyn Harvey's estate to discover the other day that you have deleted my catalogue of contributions Franklyn made under the Publications heading of his page without notifying me. You seem to have implied that they were not sourced. Yet you have not removed two of the three publications above my addition which do not have links and therefore presumably "not sourced". I have copies of all of these referred works/contracts and many of them are already stored in the archives of Concordia University in Montreal. They are not digitized and not online and I don't believe the organizations he worked with would necessarily want their internal documents made public. The list is an effort to demonstrate the broad impact Franklyn had on a wide range of NGOs and was taken from a copy of his resume that he distributed while working as a consultant. I have added the list again and would ask that if you are going to delete them you at least advise me of your action and suggest why you are taking such action. Bthomson (talk) 16:33, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

@Bthomson Wikipedia is not a CV. We do not need a catalogue of community consulting projects that Harvey undertook. Further, if the projects were not written about in independent sources, they may not be significantly notable to be included. Finally, thank you for declaring your conflict of interest with Harvey; based on that, you should refrain from directly editing the article. —C.Fred (talk) 19:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

So as the holder of Franklyn's library and historical work I am not eligible to make his contributions to world development public? Bthomson (talk) 20:33, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Certainly not. That is not the purpose of Wikipedia. We aspire to be a compilation of published information from impartial reliable sources unrelated to the subject of the article. (That is not "Franklyn Harvey's Wikipedia page" but rather an article in Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, about Franklyn Harvey.) "an effort to demonstrate the broad impact Franklyn had on a wide range of NGOs" is pretty much a taxtbook example of the kind of promotion which has no place here, no matter how admirable you deem his contributions to have been.--Orange Mike | Talk 20:55, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Gurdeep Singh Deepa

Hi Can you explain the reason for restoring this source here . It looks lika a Self published book, which failed to verify the information provided. Regards Sid95Q (talk) 10:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sid95Q The appearance was the article was undergoing death by 1,000 paper cuts. Had your explanation of a self-published source been in an edit summary, I'd have left your edit intact; without that context, it looked like part of the pattern of what was going on last night. As a result of your explanation, I have re-removed the source. —C.Fred (talk) 10:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Request action

An editor you recently warned (Wicorbottt) posted material that contained personal information about me. It's been oversighted (love those guys) but I'd appreciate some sort of action being taken. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:36, 16 April 2024 (UTC)