User talk:LocalLANerd

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. Your edit summary indicates your association. Please be very, very careful. Bazj (talk) 21:29, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 12:07, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:21, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic games

You have been adding information about the 2028 Summer Olympics, which are tentatively to take place in Los Angeles. However, the source you are citing is a plan for the 2024 Olympics. This very large discrepancy makes the information you are adding of dubious reliability and likely just speculative. Will you consider removing your edits until a more reliable source can be located? Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:34, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The 2028 plan is identical to the 2024 plan. so no, I am not going to remove edits that I worked so hard on. If someone wants to add an additional source then they are free to do so. Since I have added sources, there is no good reason to remove the hard work that I have already put into this. --WRCosA (talk) 22:13, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to discuss at Talk:2028 Summer Olympics. Cordially, --WRCosA (talk) 22:25, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

October 2017

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Tom Petty. - FlightTime (open channel) 19:57, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

November 2017

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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To suggest that I am using this for spam purposes is absurd. I simply update wikipedia pages, include useful information that is relevant to articles. How this could be spam is beyond me. This looks more like an attempt to engage in censorship and to obstruct my first amendment right which is guaranteed by the United States Constitution. To suggest that my username is spam makes even less sense and contradicts the concept of logic. I have been using this username for my entire time on wikipedia and no one ever gave me grief over this. Perhaps someone else is editing from my IP address and putting up spam, but it sure isn't me who is doing that. I have actually removed spam from wikipedia pages I have edited. I have a track record of making very useful contributions and none of what I put up gets reverted for being "spam". I look at my recent edits and none of them have been reverted because it is being classified as spam. This is a grave miscarriage of justice and a clear and present violation of my constitutional rights

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{{unblock reviewed |1=To suggest that I am using this for spam purposes is absurd. I simply update wikipedia pages, include useful information that is relevant to articles. How this could be spam is beyond me. This looks more like an attempt to engage in censorship and to obstruct my first amendment right which is guaranteed by the United States Constitution. To suggest that my username is spam makes even less sense and contradicts the concept of logic. I have been using this username for my entire time on wikipedia and no one ever gave me grief over this. Perhaps someone else is editing from my IP address and putting up spam, but it sure isn't me who is doing that. I have actually removed spam from wikipedia pages I have edited. I have a track record of making very useful contributions and none of what I put up gets reverted for being "spam". I look at my recent edits and none of them have been reverted because it is being classified as spam. This is a grave miscarriage of justice and a clear and present violation of my constitutional rights |accept = accept reason here ~~~~}}

--WRCosA (talk) 17:28, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to check out Wikipedia:Free_speech. Your "constitutional rights" don't apply on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not an extension of the American government. I'm not going to assess this unblock request, but I wanted to point out that your argument based on your "rights" being violated is flawed. Additionally, your username certainly can be see as promotional as it represents your company. only (talk) 19:31, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My company? Are you shitting me? It's not my company. My family has had NOTHING to do with it since 1955. I was born in the 90s. So no, It's not my company. So my constitutional rights don't apply on wikipedia? Maybe I should give my lawyer a call and see what he says! --WRCosA (talk) 19:50, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I should also add that the useful edits I have made to wikipedia have helped me deal with my bi-polar depression. It gives me something to do when I have downtime. By preventing me from using wikipedia, you are potentially hurting me emotionally. --WRCosA (talk) 19:53, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, you should take a look at no legal threats. only (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I retract the above statements about consulting my lawyer. It was an "in the heat of the moment" reaction. Please forgive me as I am kind of upset. I should not let my emotions cloud my judgement. Please accept my apology. --WRCosA (talk) 20:00, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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--WRCosA (talk) 20:00, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of William R. Cosentini

The article William R. Cosentini has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of notability. Sources are census data, a marriage announcement and a passing mention; that's all. Google Books and Google Web give no useful hits.

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