User talk:Michaelddwyer

Welcome![edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/username[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/username, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/tester[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/tester, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/testa[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/testa, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/profilepage[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/profilepage, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/biopage[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/biopage, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/biotest[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/biotest, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/biotester[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/biotester, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer/biotests17[edit]

A tag has been placed on your sandbox, User:Michaelddwyer/biotests17, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages. Although you may start a draft about your company, user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User page[edit]

I noticed that your user page may not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline. If you believe that your user page does not violate our guideline, please leave a note on this page. Alternatively you may add {{Db-u1}} to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it, or you can simply edit the page so that it meets Wikipedia's user page guideline. Thank you. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia[edit]

It appears that you copied or moved text from Lazerbeak into User:Michaelddwyer/wikidraft, User:Michaelddwyer/wikidraft2, User:Michaelddwyer/roughdraft, and User:Michaelddwyer/wikipediatest; Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette into User:Michaelddwyer/draft01; Dunk-a-roos into User:Michaelddwyer/dunkaroos; Citrus unshiu into User:Michaelddwyer/sandbox. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. 153.204.72.40 (talk) 21:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Michaelddwyer[edit]

A tag has been placed on User:Michaelddwyer requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 00:51, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedily deleted because...

Because I am a Wikipedia user.

Because Wikipedia policy is that editors don't delete others' userpages unless they are egregiously out of bounds (WP:NOBAN).

Because I use the space in my userpages to demonstrate Wikipedia basics to students.

Because WP:UPYES specifically identifies "limited biographical content about fields you have knowledge in," "work in progress," "notes related to your Wikipedia work" and "experimentation" as acceptable content on userpages. Since I consider teaching students how to responsibly use Wikipedia as my "Wikipedia work", I of course welcome suggestions for changes to the userpage to more accurately align with WP:UP guidelines, but speedy deletion of a userpage seems out of keeping with the participatory and democratic nature of Wikipedia, and deleterious to the cultivation of more and more responsible future Wikipedia users. -- Michaelddwyer (talk) 00:56, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are a Wikipedia user but not a very well trained one. Your user page proper is reserved for telling us a little about what you do in the real world and plenty about what you do on Wikipedia. It should be written in the first person. That of which I have deleted countless copies qualified for deletion as a fake article.

User sub-pages may be used for drafts but please: find test data other than a bio about yourself and don't create so many of them. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your assessment of my Wikipedia training is noted.

I of course welcome suggestions for changes to the user page to more accurately align with WP:UP guidelines, but speedy deletion of another user's user page seems out of keeping with the nature and customs of Wikipedia.

I would appreciate it if, now that I've been minimally trained and properly chastened, that my user page be left alone barring serious violations of Wikipedia rules. — Michaelddwyer (talk) 14:25, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I only touched your page in the first place because it was a serious violation of Wikipedia rules. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 00:28, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018[edit]

Hello, I'm ScrapIronIV. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Arcadia University, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Scr★pIron^IV 18:56, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

>> noted & cleaned up, thanks Michaelddwyer (talk) 21:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)michaelddwyer[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Michaelddwyer. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Arcadia University, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. Scr★pIron^IV 18:57, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

>>noted & addressed, i hope. thanks. Michaelddwyer (talk) 21:53, 7 February 2018 (UTC)michaelddwyer[reply]

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