User talk:AvilaUniv

MBE for W. B. Baker
Hi you recently reverted one of my edits on the above article. There is no proof that this person received the award. I have provided the lists of all recipients of the award over a period of several years including the year he was supposed to have been awarded it. It is strange that you account was created with the sole purpose of reverting my edit. I suspect that you are a sockpuppet and will be opening an administrators report to investigate. Please be aware that any account that is is proved to be a sock puppet will be blocked including the main account. Domdeparis (talk) 22:24, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I can tell you that I am not a "sock puppet". I am a friend of Dr. Baker and know that he did in fact receive the award. The Honorary MBE was conveyed by the Late Lady Marion Brett to St. Stephen's Chapel in the old Palace of Westminster during the Papal Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom in September 2010 where it was personally blessed by then Pope Benedict and Right Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and presented to Dr. Baker. A photograph was subsequently taken of Dr. Baker at Buckingham Palace with the award.

This is taken from the Wikipedia page on MBE: Order of the British Empoer

Styles and honorary knighthoods[edit source]

The senior two ranks of Knight or Dame Grand Cross, and Knight or Dame Commander, entitle their members to use the title of Sir for men and Dame for women before their forename. Most members are citizens of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth realms that use the Imperial system of honours and awards.

Honorary knighthoods are appointed to citizens of nations where the Queen is not head of state, and may permit use of post-nominal letters but not the title of Sir or Dame. Occasionally, honorary appointees are, incorrectly, referred to as Sir or Dame – Bob Geldof, for example. Honorary appointees who later become a citizen of a Commonwealth realm can convert their appointment from honorary to substantive, then enjoy all privileges of membership of the order, including use of the title of Sir and Dame for the senior two ranks of the Order. An example is Irish broadcaster the late Terry Wogan, who was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Order in 2005, and on successful application for British citizenship, held alongside his Irish citizenship, was made a substantive member and subsequently styled as Sir Terry Wogan.[4][5]

I intend to undo your revisions once again. As you wish to report me for making changes to your edits, I may have to do the same to you. AvilaUniv (talk) 03:49, 28 April 2017 (UTC)


 * A photograph of someone holding an MBE is not proof that he was awarded it. I have published lists of all foreign recipients of the award on the talk page from 2008 until 2016 and baker does not appear in any of them. If you have proof that he received it documented reliable sources please provide them. You may have misread the article but the claim concerning Lady Brett and the archbishop of Canterbury was about the jubilee medal which is another false claim as it is only awarded to British and Canadian service personnel. If you are a friend of Baker you are a COI editor and should really refrain from editing his page. Please read WP:COI

April 2017
Please do not add or change content, as you did at W. B. Baker, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Domdeparis (talk) 06:13, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

As I continue to point out to you, Dr. Baker received an HONORARY MBE. Honorary MBEs are not put on a "list" because they do not contribute to the numbers restricted to the order as full members do. You cannot find him on your lists because Honorary MBEs are not on there.AvilaUniv (talk) 14:03, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Of course there are lists!!! Look at the links on the talk page where you will find lists of the all the honorary MBE from 2008 onwards. Domdeparis (talk) 14:34, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
Domdeparis (talk) 07:07, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * My apologies for the sockpuppet accusation but at least it helped uncover 8 sockpuppets. that said the article about Baker is clearly a hoax and was deleted as such. i don't know if you really do know him but if you do and you wish to recreate the page you will need to find sources that support any claim in the article. And despite what you said all recipients of a honorary order by the Queen have their names published in a list. The page was quite fun but it was mostly a tissue of fabulations and jokes, I take my hat off to him or them or you though he managed to hoodwink a senator into honouring him with some of the most preposterous claims that it would have taken 5 minutes of research on the web to discover! here the international peace prize was last given in 1957, the Queens golden Jubilee medal is awarded to service personnel from the UK and Canada only, I could not find what the Magistracy Medal of Honor is but it sounds very impressive, there is no BBC hall of fame, Royal Star and Garter is an organisation that provides homes for wounded British soldiers. It's a very elaborate hoax because he or they even invented Lady Marion Brett and Reverend Michael Greene-Butler and their facebook pages. Anyway it brightened up a dull afternoon thanks for the fun. Domdeparis (talk) 16:11, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

April 2017
Please do not create, maintain or restore hoaxes on Wikipedia, as you did at W. B. Baker. Hoaxes are eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G3. If you are interested in how accurate Wikipedia is, a more constructive test method would be to try to find inaccurate statements that are already in Wikipedia — and then to correct them if possible. Please do not disrupt Wikipedia. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia to learn more about this project and how you can contribute constructively. Thank you. Calton | Talk 10:42, 29 April 2017 (UTC)