User talk:Patalexander

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Speedy deletion nomination of Patricia M. Alexander, CIC

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A tag has been placed on Patricia M. Alexander, CIC, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Johanna (formerly BenLinus1214)^{talk to me!}_{see my work} 20:01, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Patalexander

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A tag has been placed on User:Patalexander, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Johanna (formerly BenLinus1214)^{talk to me!}_{see my work} 20:06, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I need to find out if what I have entered on this page has resolved this problem. I do not see the Contest this speedy deletion button. PLEASE HELP --PatAlexander 14:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)User:Patalexander

Problems with upload of File:OADH 2015.jpg

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advice and warning

Perhaps I can clarify things a little. According to our Terms of Use, particularly with respect to paid contributions without disclosure, it is necessary to disclose on-wiki, on your user age, and on the talk page of every relevant article, that you have a paid conflict of interest, when this should be the case. This is not optional.

In addition, Wikipedia may not be used for the purposes of promotion-- we are not a directory. Our articles describe the subject, not advocate for it or praise it, and are directed not to prospective clients or contributors, but to the general public, who may want the sort of information found in encyclopdias. See also our rules on what makes an organization notable.

Furthermore, you should be aware that the Wikipedia community strongly discourages articles written by individuals close to a subject because of the difficulty in writing objectively about your organization, yourself, your family, or your work, in line with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline. The acceptable way to proceed is to declare on your user page that you have a conflict of interest with the subject, and then use WP:Articles for Creation. There you can have your text evaluated and worked on by other editors to ensure it meets Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for inclusion. DGG ( talk ) 22:37, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With respect to your user page, there is a difference between describing your background, and praising yourself. You have gone too far in the later direction; please correct it. DGG ( talk ) 22:37, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify the above, you may not post your CV on any page on Wikipedia, including user pages. Wikipedia may not be used for promotional purposes of anyone or anything. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 22:59, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 18:16, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

August 2015

If you want to know why I closed the thread, contact me here. RMS52 ^{Talk to me} 18:32, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Several explanations

This is a comment on your filling at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, which has been properly closed. Several folks at various places have been giving you answers to some of your questions, but I thought I'd give you a more long-winded version:

It would appear that Johanna nominated at least some of your articles for speedy deletion, but she did not delete them herself. The administrators who reviewed those nominations and decided to delete the articles were:

You say that you were not given reasons for deletion, but you were and those reasons were:

All four articles were deleted under speedy deletion criteria G11-click here to read it.
One-Arm and International were also deleted under speedy deletion criteria A7-click here to read it.

Your filing at DRN was closed because DRN does not handle matters which have their own built-in resolution processes. For deletions, read the instructions given here. The first step in that process is contacting the administrators who actually deleted the articles (i.e. those that I've listed, above). If they do not respond or will not restore the articles, you can appeal the matter to deletion review but you cannot skip the first step and go straight to deletion review.

You say at DRN that you don't have the text of at least a couple of those articles. Those same administrators will be happy, more than likely, to be able to give you the text of the deleted articles so that you can continue to try to improve them even if they are unwilling to restore them. They'll explain how they're going to do that. Do not merely use that text to restore the article without correcting the problems which they raised; all that will do is to cause it to be deleted again and if you persist in it you may be blocked from editing.

Before you bother to do that, however, you also say at DRN, "All of the information about these 3 pages is verifiable at their websites" but at least as to the two articles deleted under A7 (and I rather suspect that the other two also suffer from this problem) you need to read the Notability policy and the primary sources policy. An article must be supported by more than one reliable sources as defined by Wikipedia as third-party sources which are independent of the organization and which have a reputation for reliability and accuracy. The existence of such sources is what Wikipedia uses to determine whether or not something is important enough to be in the encyclopedia. An organization's or person's own website is a primary source and articles cannot be based only on primary sources.

Be sure to carefully read what was written in the "advice and warning" section, above.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:49, 31 August 2015 (UTC) (DRN volunteer)[reply]

Thank You

Thank your for recapping all of this in one place and advising who I need to contact on each page. While I did receive clear notification on my User Page and my Patricia M. Alexander page is was not aware that it was affecting these other pages. The One-Arm Dove Hunt page and the International Child Amputee pages were created by others years ago, so even though I have read the references you provided, I am still not clear why they would have been deleted, but I will ask each of those individuals. PatAlexander 19:47, 31 August 2015 (UTC)PatAlexander