Thomasmarino

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Speedy deletion nomination of Local ghost haunts

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Local Ghost Haunts. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. Sarilox (talk) 04:55, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

February 2010

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Local Ghost Haunts. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Swarm^(Talk) 05:55, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you remove a speedy deletion notice from a page you have created yourself, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Swarm^(Talk) 07:17, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Your comment on Talk:Local Ghost Haunts

I am copying the following discussion from Talk:Local Ghost Haunts, in case you don't see the response there. I hope the answer to your query is helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:12, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Go ahead and delete it, but I think this is BULLSHIT. We are a paranormal investigation group that offers up complete episodes of our investigations just like Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, Paranormal State, The Othersiders, and Ghost Lab (just to name a few). Yet, these shows have a page. What makes us different? The fact that we are not on a network? What else do we need to qualify for a page? We have made valid points and discoveries in our paranormal investigations, and yet we are not considered to have made a contribution? Local Ghost Haunts was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, and will be part of a feature story due late Feburary. Is that good enough? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomasmarino (talk • contribs) 05:36, 1 February 2010

I suggest reading Wikipedia's notability guidelines to see why the article is being considered for deletion, and also the conflict of interest guidelines to see why you may not be the best person to write such an article. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:10, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Use of more than one account

You should be aware that for one user to write comments purportedly coming from more than one user to create a misleading impression is not accepted on Wikipedia. It is known as "sockpuppetry", and can lead to users being blocked from editing. This applies whether the attempted deception is carried out by using more than one account or by editing without logging on as registered user. Getting another person one knows to edit and pretend to be an independent editor is regarded as no better: this is known as "meatpuppetry". JamesBWatson (talk) 08:56, 2 February 2010 (UTC)