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November 2017[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Donald Watkins has been reverted.
Your edit here to Donald Watkins was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWl-gRULLJY) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:49, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:DerrickH71/Masada.com[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Nabirm Global, LLC[edit]

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January 2018[edit]

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Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:27, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Donald Watkins for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Donald Watkins 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/Donald Watkins 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. -★- PlyrStar93. →Message me. ← 17:57, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

Hi, thanks for message. Please add your messages to the bottom of the talk page, or they may be overlooked; I've moved the message for you. Further to my comments above;

  • I commented at the AfD page]. I won't repeat that here, except to say that that you seem less than transparent about any links with Watkins, even if you are not being paid, which I am prepared to accept
  • If you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft.
  • Please read Wikipedia:Assume good faith, Wikipedia:Civility and WP:No personal attacks. To defend your article through insulting others isn't going to help your credibility, and such attacks shame you rather than those you seek to insult.
  • If you really thing I am deleting your articles because I'm a racist, I am required to inform you that the correct venue for you to pursue that is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:43, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

Thank you for your input, Jimfbleak. My response was in no way meant to imply that you were involved in the deletion of Mr. Watkins's page. It was also not meant to imply that you are a racist. My responses are in no way meant to criticize you personally. I understand that editing is a very complex process that I am only beginning to understand. I admire those editors such as yourself who are highly-skilled and knowledgeable about this whole process. Thanks.````

Thank for the apology. I'm prepared to accept that you didn't intend to imply that I was a racist, but you do need to be careful about suggesting that an article was deleted because of the race/religion/gender of its subject, that's bound to raise hackles. The article about Watkins was nothing like as bad as those about his companies, and I'm content to let the AfD run its course and leave it to the community to decide whether it should stay.
I'm not sure what you meant here: My response was in no way meant to imply that you were involved in the deletion of Mr. Watkins's page. The one incontrovertible fact is that I did delete it, and no other editors were involved until the AfD on your rewrite. What you are querying is whether I should have deleted it, not the fact of my having done so
A few unrelated points.
  • Add links to other articles. I've added a few, but it needs more
  • Try to avoid posting essentially the same message in different places, it makes it more difficult to follow the thread
  • Note that I won't necessarily see messages like the above unless you post them on my talk page. You can alternatively leave a message on this page, and I will know you have done so if you start it with my user name, User:Jimfbleak and sign it with four tildes ~~~~ when you post it. That will send me an alert.
Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:06, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
On your own talk page, you can do what you like, but you should not remove text you have posted from an active thread anywhere else once you have had a response. If you want the text to be ignored, just strike through. On my talk page, I've reverted and struck through for now, I'll remove the thread once it seems to be finished. At the AfD, NatGertler attempted to do the same but made an error, so I completed the process. I've also struck through my comments except for the rationale for my "delete" !vote. I've also restored the deleted version following a request from another editor so that the full history is available Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
JimfbleakThank you for your input. I am just going to back out of this whole process of trying to edit the Watkins page or any other page, for that matter. I will leave the job to the pros who understand all of the protocol and policies. My suggestion (for what it is worth) is that this man's biography be included in Wikipedia as there is much history and a number of legal cases that all can be verified. Thank you again for taking the time to offer advice and guidance. DerrickH71 (talk) 16:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure that he is notable, and that the AfD will probably keep the article, it's basically a matter of making it conform more to our policies Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:30, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018[edit]

Please don't remove well-sourced content, especially not from a controversial article such as Stephen Miller (political advisor), which falls under several discretionary sanctions regimes, see below. And even more especially, please don't change things in that article (particularly the lead section, which has been discussed ad infinitum) without first looking at the talkpage, where there is an ongoing RfC about calling Stephen Miller "far-right" in the lead sentence. The RfC currently stands at 13 people in favor of using "far-right" and 7 against. Please feel free to weigh in at the RfC, if you wish. And while you're checking out the talkpage, please also notice the page restrictions listed at its top. Bishonen | talk 20:15, 31 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Notice of two kinds of discretionary sanctions[edit]

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