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Happy editing! 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:15, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:15, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

February 2021[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Wikipedia. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:34, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:COI. All of it. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:37, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Gregory Montanaro[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Gregory Montanaro, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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I deleted it. Sorry, but there is no way in which this was not straight-up promotion. Drmies (talk) 23:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You’re cancelling history[edit]

Clearly you have the ability to make that call and are no longer debating the factual content or citations, but rather that you think it’s promotional. So I guess you are taking a view that if history reflects well on some, then it should be cancelled based on some arbitrary scale not related to the relative value of that history or the biographical significance within the context of sociological encyclopedic account of a geopolitical area, such as Philadelphia. There are any number of significant contributions in that biography that add to the historical account of Philadelphia and beyond, including appointment by a federal President of a nation as their representative, plus receiving an award, leading one of the most prominent social institutions in the region through a pivotal time of growth that drew national attention, the creation of various transformative life changing community initiatives. But you are determining that these are stories worth not telling, and rather erasing. These are the real living biographies of real people who have done real things. Not just “promotion” as you so casually dismiss a lifetime of devotion to mission. Gmontana (talk) 23:58, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You've completely missed the point of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and articles are supported by independent reliable sources, it isn't a place to publish your lifes work, mission or whatever else you're doing. Also stop with the stupid right-wing "cancel culture" narrative. It isn't real. CUPIDICAE💕 00:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]