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September 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Alfred Zappala has been reverted.
Your edit here to Alfred Zappala was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com/PassingTheMultistateBarExam) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Zappala, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Closed deletion discussions are closed deletion discussions/ Please leave them alome Fiddle Faddle 15:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Zappala, you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. If you disagree with the deletion please follow the insyructions at the head of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Zappala to take the matter first to the closing admin, and then, if not satisfied, to Deletion Review. Removing the closure has precisely no effect and makes you look less adult than you might wish. Fiddle Faddle 15:14, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfred Zappala, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Doing the same thing repeatedly expecting it to have different results WILL result in a block. Follow the rules. A closed discussion is a closed discussion. You may NOT add to it, however good your intentions. Fiddle Faddle 15:19, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

This forum is new to me. I apologize. I was simply trying to add support for my position, and did not realize I was deleting comments of others. Please advise where I should have posted this stuff so that I may direct these comments in the proper way. I have limited time and resources. Per the guidelines, I attempted to "undo" the deletion of Alfred's page after an editor deleted the page too quickly, in my opinion.Johnjgillis (talk) 15:26, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

See the section below. Also see the top of the closed deletion discussion. Equally there is nothing to prevent you from creating a substantially different article from the prior one, one that asserts genuine notability. Tp do this with success, the more so since you are new here and have limited times, I commend the WP:AFC process to you, including every step of the review process. Or you may ask for the currently deleted article to be placed in your user space to be worked on. Again I commend the WP:AFC process to you if you choose this route. Fiddle Faddle 15:37, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

To contest the outcome of the deletion dIscussion

First, talk to Crisco (the link goes to their talk page in the right place), the admin who closed the discussion. Please do not attempt any further edits to the closed discussion. Fiddle Faddle 15:27, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Just to make sure you see the reply, Crisco has replied. You will need to watch that talk page so that you know when he's replied and whether you need to reply to him.

Good luck with the article. Fiddle Faddle 08:59, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Alfred Zappala, in Lawrence, MA speaking about The Sicilian Project, May 2013.jpg

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