User talk:BobOfAllTrades

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Wilshirepark/sandbox/Wilshire Park


A tag has been placed on User:Wilshirepark/sandbox/Wilshire Park requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

User has a COI and is involved with city council. See Koreatown's page history.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria 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. TJH2018  talk  19:34, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Help me!
Our page has been vandalized and redirected - basically hi-jacked. The editor of Koreatown Los Angeles is warring, threatening and bullying me for attempting to restore the page, tagging it for a speedy deletion, which occurred before I could object. His reason was a lie - he said that there was a conflict of interest because I had ties to the LA City Council, which is a complete fabrication on his part. When I requested that he be cited for the vandalism, Wikipedia did nothing to prevent further malicious activity. The history pages clearly show the malicious redirection and the warring. This has to stop.

This has happened before, when this same editor defaced our page for objecting to insisting that Wilshire Park was a separate entity from Koreatown. This is a long political food fight on his part.

I want to restore my page, which was still in sandbox phase, when deleted, bar this user from accessing it and censure him for his abusive behavior. Where do I start

Wilshirepark (talk) 00:27, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Hey there, Sounds like quite the dilemma we've got on our hands here. Your page was deleted because your username resembled its name which is a conflict of interest. Sadly, you cannot create or edit pages that you may have a conflict of interest with. If you do not wish for editors to think you have a conflict of interest, try changing your username. Once you have your new username, you can request undeletion of the page.  P.S. You used "our" quite a lot above, and I'd just like to remind you that sharing accounts is against Wikipedia policy.  &mdash;Skyllfully (talk &#124; contribs) 02:50, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


 * You don't own any page on Wikipedia. If other editors edit in ways that you don't agree with, you are free to explain to them why you disagree, but you cannot demand that they be disallowed from editing, and describing anything you don't agree with as "vandalism", "hijacking" and "bullying" is not helpful. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:34, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you both! This is the most helpful information so far I have gotten from Wikipedia. I have changed my username, and I won't share accounts. As you can tell, I am new, and had no idea there were people like that out there. Some basement cyber-warrior I guess. As for the "we" and "our" it has become a habit, since the "we" is a neighborhood, and to say "I" and "me" would be bad form. Thanks again!

Help me!
Having trouble undeleting a page marked for speedy deletion due to a false complaint by a warring editor/careless naming of my account. I have renamed my account from wilshirepark to WayBackHomes and I want to restore the deleted page I was working on, a "fresh start" page with refinements. Can you help me? I am new, and I am having trouble parsing the instructions. Also, I understand that there is some way to protect pages. With the malicious background associated with this case, I would like information about that.

Update: conflict resolution has recommended that I use an ANI-notice. Again, this is very hard to parse for a new user. Help!!!

WayBackHomes (talk) 15:47, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I have undeleted the page and moved it to User:WayBackHomes/sandbox/Wilshire Park in accordance with your change of username. It will require a lot of work, though, since currently most of the content is not based on reliable secondary sources and there are tone issues with the draft, with editorializing and peacock terms. Huon (talk) 02:15, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

An essay that might be helpful
Here's an essay that might help you in writing or editing articles such as the one you propose to do on Wilshire Park: WP:Places of local interest. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:00, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "WayBackHomes", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Jack Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

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Welcome!
Hello BobOfAllTrades! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement.

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 * I suppose it's a bit late to give you a "welcome" message: that should have been done when you first started editing. However, better late than never. As you can see, the notice I am posting above gives links to various Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and other information pages. As I have already told you, in my opinion there are far too many of them, and most of them are far more complex than they need to be, so I don't recommend trying to read and digest all of them before doing any more editing, but you may like to have a quick look over what's there and see if any of it seems relevant to your current needs, and of course you can always come back to it later if and when more of them become relevant. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:56, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! Digesting material as fast as I can, and I have a reference manual arriving today. I will keep working on it. Spent some time on the page yesterday, and have something submitted it for review, with the kind assistance of a member of the Wikipedia team. Again, thank you for all the time you have spent on this one. You have helped me a lot.

BobOfAllTrades (talk) 13:51, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with James and, as I mentioned on my own Talk page, it might be a good idea for you to test out your skills on other articles that interest you but with which you are not so intimately connected. It is fun and doesn't cost anything except your time. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:12, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I want to thank JamesBWatson and BeenAroundAWhile for their assistance and their time. They have really made a big difference in my understanding of compliant content. A general question: despite my best efforts this article has still been tagged for "original research" and "needs verification." I am having trouble spotting precisely where the inadequate material is - if I could find it, I would definitely fix it willingly. After some significant deletions, there is no conjectural or subjective material that I can spot, and no assertions based on my own conclusions. Any hints for a newbie on getting the tags to go away? And please - no "biting!" I am doing the best I can. BobOfAllTrades (talk) 03:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC)