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Speedy deletion nomination of ContentBridge

Hello 009o9,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged ContentBridge for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

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

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Trivialist (talk) 16:58, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of ContentBridge for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article ContentBridge 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/ContentBridge 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. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:42, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of interest disclosure

Thank you for the disclosure statements you made on your user page.

I noticed, however, that ContentBridge was conspicuously absent from any mention on your user page, yet your contributions and comments on that article's talk page indicate that you have an association with that company.

Would you please update your disclosure statement? Thank you. ~Amatulić (talk) 16:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

@User:Amatulic Due to well-founded concerns about stalking, I have elected to comply with the Foundation's policy located at: Here
As part of these obligations, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. You must make that disclosure in at least one of the following ways:
  • a statement on your user page,
  • a statement on the talk page accompanying any paid contributions, or
  • a statement in the edit summary accompanying any paid contributions.
I have in the past had vengeful editors, visit my user page and contributions list in order to disrupt and/or destroy otherwise non-controversial contributions. I would have no problem with honoring your request, but my understanding of sock-puppetry rules do not allow me to maintain separate accounts (so that my voluntary edits are not also attacked).
I understand that that Foundation's, June 2014 ruling, can have additional or alternative paid editing rules at the project level that I will also comply with. It appears that the Talk page disclosure complies with WP:PAY, WP:NOPAY and WP:COI, which has been modified to reflect the changes.
I hope you understand that the Talk page disclosure is the most transparent way for me to make my disclosure, avoids creating an obvious list of articles for WP:WIKIHOUNDING attacks and for editors who cannot accept the Foundation's ruling. I hope you understand my concerns, Thank you! 009o9 (talk) 17:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Updated my user page, but still not interested in presenting a WP:WIKIHOUNDING a roadmap for newbies to follow. I hope you understand my preference for disclosing on Talk pages instead. 009o9 (talk) 23:49, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Question about WikiHounding

I weighed in the ContentBridge discussion and I've found two articles I authored have been redirected to other pages (Albert Okura: The Chicken Man with a 50 Year Plan and Bytemarks Café). In addition two other articles have been flagged for notability (FLOW MMA and Yellow Green Beret: Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling Around U.S. Army Special Forces (series)). I've noticed that these changes were made after I voted on the ContentBridge article and it was done by the same user, Randykitty (who also voted on the article, albeit opposite of the position I voted for). These changes are distressing as it seems like retaliatory WP:WIKIHOUNDING. DependableSkeleton79 (talk) 18:32, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

@User:DependableSkeleton79 I see that instead of going through the deletion process, your articles appear to have been blanked and redirected by the same editor involved in my article's Notability challenge that you supported my position on -- voting directly against the now retaliatory editor. [1]
It appears that User:Randykitty has administrative privileges and was approached by the editor who nominated ContentBridge for AfD (User:Tokyogirl79 also an administrator) and RandyKitty responded to have parsed my contribution list also.
  • [2] (see Discussion between Randykitty and Tokyogirl79, see ContentBridge section)
It appears that there is some kind of agenda here when those with administrative privilege go around the AfD process and retaliate against editors for voting against them. Thank you for vote supporting my article's notability claim.
I believe that the real agenda here is that I am to be taught a lesson for complying with the Foundation's new paid editing disclosure requirement as Tokyogirl79 mentions it (my disclosure) in many discussions including one that might be considered Wikipedia:Canvassing
Additional info: prior to editing your articles, User:Randykitty states does not have time to nominate for deletion within the policies and guidelines? Source section and Permalink009o9 (talk) 21:05, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

L.A. events on October 7 and 16

Upcoming L.A. events: Wik-Ed Women edit-a-thon (10/7, 6-10pm) and UCR edit-a-thon (10/16, 10am-4pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

The Southern California Wikipedia community has two exciting events coming up in the next few weeks: a Wik-Ed Women editing session downtown designed to combat systemic bias, and a Wikipedia Loves Libraries event at UC Riverside!

Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. This second session will take place on Tuesday, October 7 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

The UC Riverside Wikipedia Loves Libraries event is an edit-a-thon targeting articles related to UC Riverside, SoCal, and beyond. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Thursday, October 16 from 10am to 4pm at UCR's Tomás Rivera Library. Again, RSVPs are requested here.

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Now can you help me?

Trying to de-orphan articles and I apcame across these articles. Should they be merged, redirected, ...? American Dad (season 12) and American Dad! (season 11). The author of 12 is treating the TBS episodes as a new season. Postcard Cathy (talk)

@Postcard Cathy that is an odd one, it looks like American Dad (season 12) (note the absence of the "!" in the title) started out as a redirect to List of American Dad! episodes#Season 12 (2014) a non-existent section. (It appears that Season 11 is 2014.)
Another oddity is that there is already another redirect American Dad! (season 12) correctly spelled that links back to the list article: List_of_American_Dad!_episodes.
I notice that User:AmericanDad86 is an active editor on American Dad! (season 11). For housekeeping purposes, I'd say that the poorly named and sourced, American Dad (season 12) could be put up for WP:AfD, or even a Speedie WP:A10 and invite User:AmericanDad86 to comment. Thanks again for your help!009o9 (talk) 22:11, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
You taught me something. I never noticed that option. I coulda done that for you on Eringer had I known. Postcard Cathy (talk)

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SoCal edit-a-thons on October 21 and 25

Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thons: UC Riverside (10/21, 10am-3pm) and Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

The Southern California Wikipedia community has two more events scheduled for the month of October: a water-related edit-a-thon at UC Riverside, and an Unforgetting L.A. event at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar in conjunction with L.A. as Subject!

As part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and to celebrate Open Access Week, UC Riverside is participating alongside other Western Waters Digital Library members in an edit-a-thon focusing on water issues. Join students and faculty learning how to edit! This event will take place on Tuesday, October 21 from 10am to 3pm at UCR's Orbach Science Library (map). RSVPs are requested here.

The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at the USC Doheny Memorial Library (map). Beginners welcome! Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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L.A. event on November 11, and a new Facebook group

Wik-Ed Women editing session (11/11, 6-10pm), and join our new Facebook group!

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

The LA Wikipedia community has a new Facebook group! Become a member to keep up to date with all of our upcoming events and to connect with local Wikipedians!

In addition, we have one upcoming event: the third Wik-Ed Women editing session will take place on Tuesday, November 11 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists. Please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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L.A. event on November 11 CANCELED

Wik-Ed Women editing session CANCELED

Due to health issues affecting one of the organizers, the third Wik-Ed Women editing session (originally scheduled for Tuesday, November 11) has been canceled. We expect the series to pick up again sometime in December. Sorry for the inconvenience, and hope to see you in the near future! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:08, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

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L.A. edit-a-thon this Sunday, December 14

L.A. meetup: December 14 edit-a-thon at the California African American Museum

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East of Borneo's "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon series continues this weekend at the California African American Museum! Please join us this Sunday, December 14 from 11am to 4pm. Beginners welcome! You'll learn to create new articles that improve Wikipedia's coverage of African American art in Los Angeles, past and present. Please click here for full event details and to RSVP if you plan to attend.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Jason Peterson has been accepted

Jason Peterson, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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009o9 (talk) 19:08, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Accidentally-created user page

If you want to move something into your own userspace, you need to put "009o9/<title>" in the right hand box on the "move" form, not just "<title>", so that the result is "User:009o9/<title>". In this case, you did not actually need to move the draft, because as the notice above says, the article has been created at Jason Peterson.

What you did created a new user page User:Jason Peterson. If there were no such account, it wouldn't actually have made a new account, only a userpage which could be deleted by WP:CSD#U2 Nonexistent user.

In this case, as it happens, there is an account with that name. That account's contribution history shows that it has not edited for three years - three years to the day, by a curious coincidence. There has never been anything on the account's user page, so I have deleted what you accidentally put there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:50, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

@JohnCD Thanks for your help with that, really odd that the account was already in existence and last edit three years ago to the day, I believe that this pre-dates my involvement with the Wikipedia. (Except for one IP edit years ago, I've always used the 009o9 handle.) Again, I apologize, I was juggling three different articles at once, trying to comply with a related AfD merge consensus, so a little frazzled. There are a couple other delete requests from my goofups this morning. Thanks Again! 009o9 (talk) 21:03, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
No worries! I think I have cleaned them all up. The "Move" form causes a lot of confusion. The usual trap people fall into is to have "Wikipedia" rather than "(Article)" in the left-hand box. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 21:14, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Frustration level rather high this morning, Thanks Again!009o9 (talk) 21:48, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 20 December

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MfD nomination of User:009o9/Billy Block

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MfD nomination of User:009o9/Chloe Temtchine

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L.A. event on Tuesday, January 20

Wik-Ed Women editing session (1/20, 6-10pm)

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LA edit-a-thons on February 14, 17, and 21

Redondo Loves Wikipedia (2/14), Wik-Ed Women (2/17), and Unforgetting LA at the Getty (2/21)!

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The LA Wikipedia community has three events in mid-February -- please consider attending!

First, we have a Valentine's Day edit-a-thon appropriately named Redondo Loves Wikipedia, which will take place at the Redondo Beach Public Library from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, February 14. Join library staff, the Redondo Beach Historical Society, and others to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of Redondo Beach!

Second, we have a Wik-Ed Women editing session on Tuesday, February 17 from 6pm to 10pm at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive downtown. This series of informal get-togethers is designed to encourage Los Angeles women-in-the-arts (though all are welcome!) to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding content about women artists.

Third, we have an Unforgetting LA event put on by East of Borneo in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute. Come help improve Wikipedia's coverage of LA design and architecture, and have an awesome free day at the museum -- parking will be validated for edit-a-thon participants! If you'd like to use particular books from GRI's great collection, be sure to email before 2/13 (instructions at event page).

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LA edit-a-thons on March 18 (tomorrow!) and 28

Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28)

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Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library!

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Thanks @User:Calliopejen1, I might be able to make it on the 28th.009o9 (talk) 23:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Abandoned drafts

Information iconHello, 009o9, I saw that you made a draft for a new article at User:009o9/Computer-related occupations. According to WP:STALEDRAFT, "Short term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable (the template {{userspace draft}} can be added to the top of the page to identify these)." But in this case, you haven't edited your draft for a long time. If you are done, please donate it by moving User:009o9/Computer-related occupations to a Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts subpage (a participant may help). If you are not done, please finish it and move it. If you abandoned it, you may request it for deletion by putting "{{db-u1}}" or donating it. Thank you. SD0001 (talk) 07:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Similarly, you have 4 other drafts (User:009o9/Cooper Smith Advertising, User:009o9/Lindsey Stirling discography, User:009o9/Never Gonna Be the Same Again and User:009o9/Topher Straus) listed at Category:Stale Userspace drafts that were last edited more than one year ago. Please consider donating them to the WikiProject or improving them yourself. SD0001 (talk) 07:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Never Gonna Be the Same Again (March 31)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Oo7565 was:
This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of music-related topics and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Draft Mitchell Kriegman (April 8)

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Please read: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and WP:NOPAY.
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Managing a conflict of interest

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. CookieMonster755 (talk) 00:45, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

@User:CookieMonster755 The rules you've provided here apply to article space and have been clarified by the Foundation in June of 2014 Terms_of_use#paid-contrib-disclosure. Wikipedia does not have additional policies at Alternative_paid_contribution_disclosure_policies.
Possible COI is exactly why I submitted to AfD instead of moving the article myself. I respect the rules and input from other writers. Kriegman is disclosed on my user page and in the note I left in the top of the draft. I also provide a Template:Paid article on my paid works, but in this case, the talk page should not travel with the draft, because there is an existing article and that talk page should sustain. While I'm on the subject, I will add the additional declaration to the existing Talk:Mitchell_Kriegman talk page. Thanks, resubmitting -- 009o9 (talk) 03:57, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Draft Mitchell Kriegman (April 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:
You seem to be adhering to the precepts put forth in COI and NOPAY. I'm willing to work on this article over the next several days (say finish by Sunday PM). I've copied the draft below to my sandbox: User:Onel5969/sandbox, since it doesn't really belong in AfC. I'll work on it there, and make changes to the existing article as I go along.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Never Gonna Be the Same Again (April 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Worldbruce was:
This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of music-related topics and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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5th Annual Wiknic

5th Annual Wiknic (Saturday, July 11, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian,

You are cordinally invited to the fifth annual Los Angeles Wiknic!

The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible!

I hope to see you there! Howcheng (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:40, 21 June 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lo Mein (book) (June 28)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Winner 42 was:
Decline pending an explicit declaration of a COI on your userpage and article talk page in compliance with the Terms of Use. Additionally the article doesn't seem to show that it passes any Wikipedia:Notability (books) requirements in its current state.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Winner 42 Talk to me! 01:39, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikinic rescheduled

5th Annual Wiknic rescheduled to Saturday, July 25, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm

Due to a conflict with the Redondo Loves Wikipedia edit-a-thon, the fifth annual Los Angeles Wiknic has been rescheduled. As before, the location will be at Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2015 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible!

I hope to see you there! —howcheng {chat} - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Solutions for Dreamers has been accepted

Solutions for Dreamers, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Sulfurboy (talk) 22:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
@Sulfurboy, Thank you, for reviewing the article and doing the move. Under the rules for COI and paid writing, I have to use AfC for submission -- thanks again for your work. -- 009o9 (talk) 23:33, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Request on 20:03:18, 19 July 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Carvic65



Carvic65 (talk) 20:03, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Carlos Vicioso, Abelardo Vicioso's son. I'm just noticing that my article about my father was denied to publish because it's a translation of the article about him in Wikipedia in Spanish, which it's true, BUT I WAS THE ONE WHO CONTRIBUTED WITH WIKIPEDIA.ES GIVING ALL THAT INFORMATION. So, of course, it has to be the same article, but translated. That's the biography of my father, not only because I'm his son and I knew him while alive, but also because he's a very renown person in my country, the Dominican Republic, and beyond, and his life is publicly debated in several Dominican books and articles, by the way reviewed for me.

@Carvic65, I've formatted the article Draft:Abelardo_Vicioso, which should give you a head start, you should provide links, even in Spanish in your references. I'm not fluent in Spanish, so I doubt if I can be much more assistance, but feel free to ask. You might try Help:Other languages. Regards -- 009o9 (talk) 21:13, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lo Mein (book) has been accepted

Lo Mein (book), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Sulfurboy (talk) 03:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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Request on 14:36:14, 25 July 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Carvic65



Carvic65 (talk) 14:36, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Carlos Vicioso, trying to submit my article about my father Abelardo Vicioso, Dominican writer, and I want to send you some pics (photos) of documents, degrees, certificates, etc., that may contribute to raise the credibility of the text. How do I do? Can you please give me a contact e-mail where I can send you the referred pics, if possible?

@Carvic65 if you own the license to the images (i.e., you are the photographer) you can upload them to Wikimedia. You will need to keep track of the file names, then we can create a category to make them easier to find. Again, the copyright owner must do the upload and give a release.
Additionally, if Abelardo Vicioso is a Spanish language writer, do we need a full biography in the English version? It seems to me that a short stub article, linking to the Spanish biography would suffice. If you need to email me. there is a link in the left column on this page "Email this user" -- Regards -- 009o9 (talk) 16:49, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
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