User talk:BadNewsBear

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BadNewsBear, good luck, and have fun. Cotton2 (talk) 03:59, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Canadian Centre for Diversity has been accepted

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Bradv 04:52, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Michael Bach (businessman) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Bach (businessman) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Bach (businessman) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 06:45, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Michael Bach

Notability, for the purposes of determining whether somebody gets a standalone article about them on Wikipedia or not, is determined by whether the person is or isn't the subject of enough substantive reliable source coverage in media to get over WP:GNG, but the sources you added to support the article aren't meeting that standard. #1 (Women of Influence) just namechecks his existence; #2 is an advertorially-toned press release in the context of him being given an honour by the publisher of that release, which makes it a primary source rather than a notability-conferring source; #3 is the self-published website of an awards program. Whereas #4 and #5 are technically real media coverage, but they both contain a mere blurb's worth of information about him rather than being substantive. So exactly none of them are showing that he's notable enough for a standalone article at all. But again, for Wikipedia purposes the existence or non-existence of media coverage about him is the notability test — there's no such thing on Wikipedia as "what he does is so important that he should be exempted from having to be sourced properly".

There's also a principle on here called WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS: each article has to actually stand or fall on its own two feet. You can't just point to another Article B that isn't any better as proof that Article A needs to be kept — Darren Entwistle's article, as written, is very much not any sort of model for how a keepable Wikipedia article needs to be written or sourced, and the only reason it hadn't already been listed for deletion is that I didn't see it until you pointed it out (but do feel free to look at it again and see what's happened now.) If you want a model for what a good article about a person in business should look like, you need to look at articles that have actually been assessed as solid articles on our quality scales, like Lee Iacocca or Michael Novogratz or Ali Hewson.

When it comes to the conflict of interest issue, we can only judge these situations by what they look like. All contributors to Wikipedia edit under "anonymous" usernames rather than their own real names, and in fact it's very nearly impossible for us to directly determine an editor's real life identity unless they identify themselves in a Wikipedia discussion — so we can only evaluate based on things like whether a person's username implies a direct connection with the article subject, because the appearance of a conflict of interest matters just as much as the reality of one. We have an extremely large problem with people trying to misuse us as a public relations platform or an alternative to LinkedIn rather than as an encyclopedia, so our COI rules have to be strict enough to sometimes catch "false positives", because stuff will slip through the cracks if they're not. But that's precisely why I said a COI was possible rather than confirmed. Bearcat (talk) 14:35, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Pride at Work Canada

Hello BadNewsBear,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Pride at Work Canada for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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Meatsgains^(talk) 15:16, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Unblock Request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

BadNewsBear (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. My IP address is 38.64.139.51. Not sure why this is appearing. My IP address is public and I am not using a web host provider or colocation provider. My ISP is Bell Canada. BadNewsBear (talk) 21:10, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

That IP address is running open services on port 443 and 1723. It's blocked as belonging to "cloud wiz", which I cannot confirm, but I can confirm these ports are open. Please disable your use of Cloud Wiz and try again in 24 hours. Yamla (talk) 21:41, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

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