User talk:Books2read

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Hello, "Books2read". I see you tried, quite correctly, to replace Colorado review by Colorado Review, and fell foul of misinterpretation of what you were doing. For future reference, a better way of achieving the effect you wanted is to use the "move" button at the top of the page. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:10, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Forrest Hamer[edit]

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barnstar[edit]

		The Writer's Barnstar
		For your tireless efforts to create authors' biographies Pohick2 (talk) 23:39, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

not at all, i see we are covering the same ground, hope you don't mind my bio style which differs in tiny respects from yours. cheers Pohick2 (talk) 00:50, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Style[edit]

well there is a WP:MOS, WP:Manual of Style (lead section) but it's clear as mud. as you see, i tend to have a single sentence lead for stubs, and have a life section, awards, works, etc. adding 4 sections gets you a table of contents, and makes the article look bigger, unlike a magazine article. they talk of using summary style in lead, and then detail in sections, but that's too topic sentencey for me. i tend to have a "powerpoint" bullet style, while you tend to be essay style (i will go to the essay, when i have more source material to fill out) -- it appears to be personal preference. Pohick2 (talk) 15:20, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can't advertise yourself here[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, your account has been blocked; you are welcome to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice. Thank you.

--Orange Mike | Talk 13:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Orangemike,

I am a good faith editor of Wikipedia articles, and not representing any company. I was working to address the New Rivers Press article issues because of the invitation on the page to do so, and because I care about literature. I don't have any affiliation whatsoever with the press. Is it my "Books2read" handle that is the problem? I chose it randomly. I discovered later that it seems to be a bookstore in England (I am in the USA), but figured that the handle would not have been approved had it been a problem for Wikipedia. Please tell me what to do to address this, and keep in mind that I have trouble understanding Wiki instructions...I find them complicated (I'm not sure I've correctly figured out how to respond here)! Books2read (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC)Books2read[reply]

You put a link to that company on your userpage; that seems like a pretty solid indication that you were willing to advertise it! --Orange Mike | Talk 19:39, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, Mike, I looked at a number of their recent contributions and found no evidence of promotional edits. This seems like an honest mistake by an inexperienced user to me (the book store link was added by an IP 11 months ago). —DoRD (talk) 19:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I am not representing a company. Books2read (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Sorry, but we don't allow usernames that match a company's name, even if you don't represent that company. There is no system for approving usernames prior to registration, so we simply block inappropriate ones. Please create a new account with an appropriate username. Sandstein 19:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I utterly disagree with this block, and am reversing it. This person has been editing in good faith, without any promotion of any business; the fact that some random business in the UK happens to have this rather generic name is hardly a disqualifier, any more than it would be if there happened to be an unrelated business called "Sandstein" (oh, wait, there is -- http://www.sandstein.de/ is one, or for that matter http://www.sandsteine.de/, or maybe a promotion for http://www.saechsische-schweiz.de/start/click.system?navid=123). Further, the business name was not put on the page by this user; this user is not from the UK. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 01:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i agree, what is the point blocking a productive editor? is it WP:pointy or WP:bite? Accotink2 talk 04:08, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The block, while a mistake, was in good faith. I was not paranoid enough to discover that the spamlink to a vendor of that name had been added by somebody else and never removed by this editor; it's the first time I'm ever heard of this being done. The unblock was rightly done, and I have no complaints. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:22, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello All,

Thank you for the consideration and informative discussion! I'm glad that you could see I didn't put the link on my user page...I had no idea that someone did that, so it didn't occur to me to delete it. It sounds as if I should change my handle, which I'll be glad to do. According to Jpgordon, I am now unblocked (thank you for that). Does that mean that I don't need to perform the unblock request as DoRD instructs above in order to change my handle? Do I just sign onto to Wikipedia using a new handle or is there a formal procedure I need to follow to do it?

Thanks, Books2read (talk) 19:36, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Books2read[reply]

Hi there. No, you don't need to use the unblock template I suggested above, and there really isn't any need for you to change your username as it would only violate our username policy if you actually were promoting something. If you do want to change it, however, you may make a request here. Cheers! —DoRD (talk) 20:14, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DoRD,

Thank you...I'd rather not have to change my username, especially since it risks unintentional breaking of rules. Not wanting to break rules was why I offered to change it (per Sandstein's comment)! Would you be willing to remove this category currently at the bottom of the page: "Categories: Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names?" I don't see where/how to do it, and if I'm no longer blocked it seems like it shouldn't be there.

Thanks again! Books2read (talk) 21:22, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Books2read[reply]

September 2011[edit]

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Hi CutOffTies,

I have attempted to do as you suggest in adding information to Patricia Smith (poet). Please let me know if I have not done it correctly--and if not, how (in layman's terms, please) I can correct it. I find Wikipedia instructions difficult to understand.Books2read (talk) 22:42, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Cavankerry Press[edit]

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Thank you for creating Cavankerry Press.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

The Cavankerry Press website is a primary source, as such it isn’t independent and therefore isn’t considered a reliable source. I would suggest that you find an alternative reference to support the information.

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Dan arndt (talk) 22:54, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

{{Re|Dan arndt}} Hi Dan, thank you for responding. I do have questions. I added 12 secondary source citations to Cavankerry Press, so 17 out of the 20 citations are now secondary sources. I see that the maintenance tag is back, so apparently that isn’t enough? Are no primary sources allowed in an article? ~~~~

{{Re|Dan arndt}} Hi Dan, I'd still like to know the answer to my primary source question above, but want to let you know that I've now deleted all of the primary source citations and replaced them with secondary source citations, as well as adding a ton of other primary sources, so I'm going to go ahead and remove the maintenance tag, since I've resolved the problem 100%, as I understand it. ~~~~

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