Talk:Terry Bollinger

Removed almost all of the page
I will add more back when I have time.

Terry Bollinger 14:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what I'm supposed to do...
After the above note, I did not touch this page for over seven years ago. Back in 2006 I edited it down so that the one and only event mentioned was that I was the author of a DoD report on open source software. That report was, is, and continues to be a pretty significant event in open source history.

I recently received a polite auto-bot email indicating that someone -- I think a real human, not just a bot? -- wanted more biographical info or the page would be deleted. I figured out how to enter the required information, and went through two or three more warning flags to provide just enough solid information to clear the flags. I hoped and assumed that doing so was OK since it would in any case have been difficult information for anyone else to have added. And I really hoped I was finally done with it.

Of course, I was wrong: Now I have been flagged for editing my own page.

There was a time years ago when I genuinely loved adding non-obvious info on diverse topics to Wikipedia. That ended long ago. I'm now afraid to touch anything on any topic, let alone the page on me, so I gave up actively participating many years ago. I still find that sad.

In this case, I literally do not know what I am supposed to do.

Addendum the next day
Delusion23, from your history comments, was by any chance mainly my insertion of... "interwiki links?"... that caused you to flag me? I can assure you that I only added them because I was trying to figure out how to clear an earlier flag that complained I didn't have enough of... something... in the page metadata. I did not know what they do; I only wanted to fix a flag. You already fixed the metadata problem, so I can't do anything there.

I know your Wikipedia specialty is sports, but if you can take just a few minutes to go through my actual edits and why I did them, and my publication record at other sites, I think you will see I am serious that I was just responding to flags, and that my page exists for some non-trivial reasons. Is there something more I am supposed to do? If so, what? Clearing the flag myself would no doubt just cause yet another flag, right?

Terry Bollinger (talk) 19:00, 7 March 2013 (UTC)