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Hi. I noticed that you attempted to submit a request for adminship, but I reverted because it was malformed and non-existent. Please follow the instructions at WP:RFA/N if you wish to nominate yourself. Regards, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Denbigh Baptist Christian School

A tag has been placed on Denbigh Baptist Christian School requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Timneu22 · talk 16:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, but with copyright issues, we need to be very strict. Before that content can be used on Wikipedia you will need to follow the steps from Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. It's good that you already have oral permission, but to protect Wikipedia and it's re-users that isn't enough.
If you have any questions about this, feel very free to ask. Kind regards, Amalthea 17:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Of course, it is usually easier to just rewrite an article from scratch, since text from an official website of any organization is almost never compliant with Wikipedia's guidelines and policies (WP:NPOV and WP:VERIFIABILITY, mostly). With a perfectly neutral article it's said that a reader should not know whether the author had a favorable or an unfavorable opinion about the topic. That was certainly not the case here. Amalthea 17:08, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

... and now I notice that another editor is doing just that already. :) Maybe you should get in contact with him. Cheers, Amalthea 17:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant 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. — Timneu22 · talk 16:47, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Denbigh Baptist Christian School, a page you have created yourself. If you do not believe the page should be deleted, you can place a {{hangon}} tag on the page, under the existing speedy deletion tag (please do not remove the speedy deletion tag), and make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Thparkth (talk) 16:48, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 17:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

How Wikipedia works

Regarding this edit, you seem to be under a misunderstanding about how Wikipedia works. All users are potentially editors, which means that all users can create articles, improve articles, or request that articles be deleted. This is a very common practice; there are not enough admins to patrol every page that is created so many non-admins take on that task. When a page is tagged for deletion, this helps an admin concentrate his attention on pages that other users have already identified as problematic. Timneu22 (talk · contribs) is one such editor who actively patrols new pages to keep problematic pages from being dumped into Wikipedia. His actions are legitimate. If you are uncomfortable with this mode of operation, perhaps Wikipedia is not the place for you. However, if you would like to continue contributing to the project, please do so in accordance with existing Wikipedia policies.

Regarding the page you created that got deleted, your claim of copyright permission is not sufficient. Anyone can claim anything, and without valid proof, the claim is meaningless. There is a proper procedure for donating copyrighted materials, but that may not help you because material copied intact from an organization's website will likely be too promotional to be allowed to remain. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

And just a notification: I've written a stub article with the relevant info from the source. Beware of neutrality issues- I would advise you against inserting promotional material into the article again. ALI ^{nom nom} 17:16, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

See also my response at User talk:Timneu22#DBCS Article. JohnCD (talk) 17:39, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Signature

Hi, Comppro! I notice that when you're signing your posts, it just leaves your name but no link. Please could you add a link to your userpage or your talkpage or your contributions page, as per Wikipedia's signature policy? Thanks in advance! (If you need any help in doing this, feel free to let me know!) ╟─TreasuryTag►Speaker─╢ 20:44, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. ╟─TreasuryTag►assemblyman─╢ 16:53, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

As Amalthea noted at the above discussion, you probably just need to uncheck the "Sign my name using the provided wikitext" box. –xeno^talk 17:42, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

• Please add at least one link to your signature (linking to your user, user talk, or contributions page) or you will be blocked from editing until such time as you do so (signing without a link is a form of disruptive editing). If you need help with this, please see Wikipedia:How to fix your signature or ask here. –xeno^talk 17:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

This is the final warning you will receive - please fix your signature to include at least one link or you will be blocked from editing until such time as you do so. –xeno^talk 12:18, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

A lot of advice

Thank you for your message on my talk page.

Copyright - whatever a lawyer told you, that text was copied from a website which carries the notice "Copyright © 2005, Denbigh Baptist Christian School". Wikipedia cannot accept copyright text on the basis of mere assertion of permission to use; for one thing, we have no way to know that you are who you say; for another, release to Wikipedia involves more than just permission to publish, under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, it also gives permission to anyone to copy it from Wikipedia, alter it, and use it for any purpose including commercial, and the copyright holder needs to understand and agree to that. Therefore we will not accept any copyright material unless the procedures have been followed which are explained in Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials (if you own the copyright) or Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission (if someone else does).

Encyclopedic nature - but it is probably not worth your while organising a copyright release, because material copied from a website is unlikely to be suitable for an article. Much better to write what you have to say in your own words. Wikipedia should not be thought of as a notice-board where announcements, prospectuses and advertisements can be pinned: it is an encyclopedia, and content should be suitable for the general reader. The text you posted contained lengthy lists of fees, details of payment plans, etc - suitable for the school website, but quite unsuitable for an encyclopedia. The rest had the promotional tone expected in a prospectus - "high moral and academic standards", "genuinely concerned for the individual student", "quality Christian education" - but not in an encyclopedia, which is only for facts verifiable from reliable sources. See WP:PEACOCK.

The article has been rewritten as a short "stub" by another user. Rather than try to reintroduce material from the website, I suggest you try to expand that with small amounts of neutral, factual material - number of students, for instance. Before editing the article you, or anyone else connected with the school, should read the guidelines WP:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest and remember, no Wikipedia article is owned by any user, certainly not by anyone connected with its subject. If in doubt, suggest on the article's talk page changes you would like to see, and for which you can cite a reliable source.

General advice: - when you become part of an established existing community like Wikipedia, it is prudent to tread cautiously at first, watch what more experienced members do, not issue demands or assume that everyone else is wrong. I am sorry if you had a bad day yesterday, but you should not take it out on others, especially people you have never met who are trying to help you. Everyone here is a volunteer, and a collaborative effort like this only works on a basis of civility and assuming good faith - assuming that other users are also here to improve the encyclopedia. There are relatively few administrators and their tasks are mainly maintenance (the administrators' emblem is a mop); they certainly are not able to check all the new articles, which arrive at the rate of more than one a minute. So the other user was not "barging in" - he was working as part of the unofficial New Page Patrol, without which Wikipedia would rapidly become unusable. Other users will no doubt also chip in to help improve the article or to give advice - that's how Wikipedia works

Your signature - as an example, you have been asked many times above to sort out your signature so that it provides a link to your user or talk pages, but you have not replied or taken any notice. If you don't understand what is being asked of you, ask the user who has sent you a message; but don't just ignore the requests. This has already caused a discussion about you, and a request to block you, here at the administrators' notice-board. All you need to do to make your signature comply with the rules is to click on "My preferences" and then "user profile" and uncheck the box marked "Sign my name using the provided wikitext" and then sign messages on talk ages with four "tilde" characters ~~~~. If you want to make yourself a customised signature, make sure it includes a link as required by WP:SIGNATURE.

I am sorry that you have had a rough start here; sort out your signature, and read some of the guidelines I have linked. The WP:Welcome page, the WP:Five Pillars and the guide to writing WP:Your first article are worth reading, too. I hope things will go better and you will enjoy being a Wikipedian.

If you have any questions, you can ask them below here - I will watch this talk page.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:48, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for ignoring repeated requests to fix your signature, after final warning. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. JohnCD (talk) 21:58, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I do not like to do this, but a block seems necessary to get your attention. Indefinitely need not mean for ever, you can be unblocked, but read on.

Any community, such as your school, has rules, and people who ignore the rules, after they have been politely asked several times to observe them, are likely to be excluded. How would a new pupil at your school get on, who assumes that the rules do not apply to him and that he can tell more experienced members of the school what they should or shouldn't do? Wikipedia is no different.

One of Wikipedia's rules, to make conversation on talk pages easier, is that users' signatures must contain a link to their talk page or user page. See WP:SIGLINK. There is no reason why, as a new user, you should know that; but in the section "Signature" above another user explained and asked you to fix your signature. When you ignored that, this discussion at the administrators' notice-board was opened, and you were notified of it; administrator xeno (talk · contribs) warned you. The next day it was reported that you had still not corrected your signature and xeno gave you a final warning, saying that you would be blocked unless you fixed it. The same day I spent some time writing advice to you, and once again explained what you need to do. Three days later you are still using an unlined signature.

One of two things is going on here:

• You are simply not reading all the advice and instruction people are giving you, or
• You think the rules don't apply to you.

In either case, you are not going to get on well in Wikipedia, a collaborative effort which depends on people communicating and observing common, agreed standards. I repeat, this block is not intended to be permanent; you will be welcome to contribute to Wikipedia if you make some effort to understand and fit in with the rules and customs of the community.

If you want to be unblocked:

• Read carefully through this talk page and think about the advice you have been given
• Fix your signature so that it contains a link. The easiest way is to click on "My preferences" and then "User profile", uncheck the box marked "Sign my name using the provided wikitext", and make sure that the box marked "Signature" is empty. Then sign your posts on talk pages either by ending them with four "tilde" characters ~~~~ or by clicking the "Signature and timestamp" button in the toolbar above the editing box - it looks like the end of a pencil. If you have tried this and it doesn't work, or you don't understand it, explain why below here.
• Post an unblock request below here - you can still edit this talk page. It should look like

{{unblock|your reason}} and then your signature.

If that signature does not contain a link to your talk or user page, it is unlikely that the unblock will be granted.

JohnCD (talk) 22:01, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

{{unblock|First of all, I would like to apologize about my signature problem. My preferences were checked to include a manual sig. I have fixed it and now using the four tildes. I ask i fi may be able to come back to Wikipedia. Once again, i apologize.}} --Comppro (talk) 14:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

I trust that you have read through this #A lot of advice section above. Most importantly, if you are left a note on your talk page in the future, please don't ignore it. Try to always reply, if only to acknowledge the message. Amalthea 14:51, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! --Comppro (talk) 21:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Warning to blocked user

What was this about? That user was blocked last year. Just wondered what has come to light! - Fayenatic (talk) 19:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Allen Todd Paxton

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A tag has been placed on Allen Todd Paxton requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to Grand Theft Auto 5, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you. Kinaro^{(say hello) (what's been done)} 22:50, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello,

I was in the process of adding information to Grand Theft Auto 5 . I was not going to leave the article blank. I am going to add information, that is why I removed the redirect. --Comppro (talk) 22:53, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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I have requested an account on The English Wikipedia Internal Account Creation Interface.--Comppro (talk) 02:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 05:48, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ogglie Booglie

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A tag has been placed on Ogglie Booglie, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article that does not provide sufficient context to identify its subject. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the article's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. SKATER ^{Is Back} 14:49, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

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