User talk:Glenncheney

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Hello and thanks[edit]

Hello, Glenn. I'd like to thank you for taking a look at the little Francis Eaton article I worked on. It's nice to have an expert reviewing things!

It's possible that you are relatively new to Wikipedia. You may find it useful to follow the convention of utilizing your user page, User:Glenncheney, for information about yourself, if you so desire. For purposes of composing articles, it often works best if you create what is here called a "sandbox". Just enter User:Glenncheney/Sandbox in the little "search" box and press "go". When you are advised that no such page exists, request that one be created, and it will be so. You can always go to it using User:Glenncheney/Sandbox.

Feel free to contact me at any time if you'd like assistance with the intricacies of this medium. Tim Ross (talk) 11:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dinky[edit]

hey —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.141.121 (talk) 15:12, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of insterest[edit]

If you have a close connection to 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 from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
avoid breaching 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 conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 01:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2015[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Indigenous peoples of the Americas, you may be blocked from editing. Diffs: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:19, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking over your contribs, it seems that you've done very few edits here that aren't spam. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 18:04, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Estrada Real[edit]

The article Estrada Real has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced, created by COI spammer who cites only himself here.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:55, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for One Week, for continuing to post COI advert/spam after final warnings, and WP:NOTHERE[edit]

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

About your publication[edit]

Dear Gleen, this is about including one of your publications in an article, as shown here. As you may remember (see here; User:CorbieVreccan), you were advised about Wikipedia's guidelines (WP:COI), and though I may understand your position as the article's creator and one of the few experts on the subject, in order to keep WP's scholarly integrity, we should avoid citing your publication, at least, until we could attract a larger number of editors and include other references. However, there should be other ways you can help, and I hope you will stay around. Thanks for understanding. Caballero//Historiador ^☊ 16:21, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked, for WP:NOTHERE[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Hello. Is it possible for me to send a message this way?

I'm not sure what I'm doing here, technically speaking. I want to apologize for what turns out to be spam. I read the wikipedia principles and pillars, and I didn't think that listing references or further reading titles was a conflict of interest. I didn't think it was opinionated or biased or harmful. Self-promoting, yes, I guess, but not in the send of writing about myself in an article. To me the references and titles were just simple fact, additional sources of information that might prove useful to someone. Or so I thought. I didn't get the warning messages (i.e. didn't think to look there on my Talk page), so I kept doing what I was doing. I'm sorry. I have tremendous respect for Wikipedia and never meant to corrupt it. I'm not appealing the decision to block me, though it hurts me to think I'm considered a spammer. I'm not saying the decision was wrong, only that I'm sorry I screwed up. I hope somebody reads this. It isn't obvious to me whether this editing of a talk page is a means of sending a message, but there it is. I don't know what else to do.

January 16, 2016 Glenn Cheney aka GlenncheneyGlenncheney (talk) 23:24, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Glenncheney:, Dear Glenn, I did read your comments, and I think you should appeal the block. We need people like you. Many authors commit the same mistake hoping to contribute rather than to hurt. I have found that there are other ways to contribute and to suggest your publications for appropriate articles. By teaming with other editors, you can do much to help while also enjoying learning about new subjects. Please, let me know how can I help. Caballero/Historiador^⎌ 16:19, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Cheney can appeal if he likes, but I'd encourage you to look at his entire edit history. As he tended to spam a handful of articles in a short burst, he wasn't given an individual warning for every spammy, COI edit, but he was warned sufficiently and chose to neither change his behaviour nor engage with other editors. Instead of learning about WP and policies - that other editors were posting for him - he just reverted others to reinsert his WP:CITESPAM. He was blocked for a week, then came back and did it some more, and never engaged with the WP community until he was indef-blocked. My concern is not just the spam - which took a long time to clean up, on a handful of different language wikis - but that he did nothing else here but spam. He didn't even bother to learn where on the article pages the "further reading" goes so, in addition to the COI the edits were disruptive to the formatting. His edits did not give the impression he was reading the articles he was adding his books to. As happens when people use inline cites as Citespam, he was also unnecessarily "sourcing" already-sourced statements on particulars to his entire books (no page numbers, just pasting in same spam as in "Further reading"). So even if there is relevant content in the additional book, it wasn't particularly checkable; if you're familiar with citespammers, it's a very common tactic. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 17:02, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note to any admin considering unblock: User is also spamming on other language 'pedias. I had assumed the dozens of instances I removed after the initial block were due to other users importing content from en-wiki. Looks like I was too kind. After being blocked here, user went to other wikis to resume spamming. This gives me zero confidence in any promises of reformation: German contribs. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 00:41, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Corbie, thanks for the info. It is really a pity. I suppose you have the instruments and the mandate to oversee these types of activites. Thanks for your hard work (and for your signature style, which I copied and adapted). Caballero/Historiador^⎌ 05:33, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

January 19, 2016 Corbie, Caballero, I'm extremely sorry for all the trouble I've put you through. I didn't try to evade any blocks; I just did what I did in English, then moved on to other languages. You'll find entries for Quilombo dos Palmares, Quilombo, and Zumbi in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, and French. No other languages. I deeply regret doing this. It was in ignorance and innocence, not maliciousness. I won't be appealing the block for all the reasons above, especially my inability to dedicate enough time to fully understand how to make valuable contributions in proper ways. I can't tell you how sorry I am to have caused all this trouble. No need to respond to this. You've wasted enough time on me already. Glenn Cheney glenncheneyGlenncheney (talk) 10:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]