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Proposed deletion of Brad Rushing


The article Brad Rushing has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners or ask at Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Eeekster (talk) 23:22, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 Southwest Alternate Media Project, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Snowysusan 11:44, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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August 2016
Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to Brad Rushing. I did have one note for you. I am working on a maintenance project to clean up Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

SomeImage.jpg

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks!! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:56, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of David Blackburn (film editor)


A tag has been placed on David Blackburn (film editor), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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. KDS4444 (talk) 13:22, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please see editor) this note, which is addressed to you. Also, I would like to ask if you have any professional connection to Mr. Blackburn.  If so, it is important that you declare this connection in accordance with WP:COI.  Thanks! KDS4444 (talk) 11:42, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, I see that you created the article on Brad Rushing and uploaded an image for that article. If you have a conflict of interest with regard to that article, it is imperative that you make a declaration to this effect on your userpage.  Please contact me if you have questions.  KDS4444 (talk) 12:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Please see my latest edit to the same page, and consider placing it on your WP:WATCHLIST to continue to receive notifications about that page. Thanks!  KDS4444 (talk) 18:38, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Maybe I am not doing this correctly. I went to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Blackburn_(film editor)&action=history But I did not see any edit from you. Please tell me what I am doing incorrectly. I appreciate your assistance in bringing this entry up to the correct standards. Thanks.

Nomination of Brad Rushing for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Brad Rushing is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Brad Rushing until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion will focus on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. KDS4444 (talk) 19:04, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Rather than posting redundantly here I will address the concerns from this post https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Braddp186k&action=edit&section=6 and hopefully that response will satisfy this as well.

COI warnings
Braddp186k, if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the articles We Are All Made of Stars, Brad Rushing, and David Blackburn (film editor), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). I have tried to communicate with you about this, but so far you have been unresponsive. Wikipedia asks that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. - KDS4444 (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay. I have not intentionally been "unresponsive." Rather I have been very, very busy with professional projects I am involved in.

Looking at the hyperlinked Conflicts Of Interest page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest) I do not see anything in this article that breaks any of the rules given. I also don't see on this page any of the points you cite.

But I will address a few for the sake of assuring you I did look through the article:

"A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest."

and

"Secondary interest includes not only financial gain but also such motives as the desire for professional advancement and the wish to do favours for family and friends, but conflict of interest rules usually focus on financial relationships because they are relatively more objective, fungible, and quantifiable. The secondary interests are not treated as wrong in themselves, but become objectionable when they are believed to have greater weight than the primary interests."

The information given in the entry in question is all factual and much is sourced from and/or referenced back to Wikipedia itself. Hyperbole is not used in the descriptions and there is no marketing or promotional language.

"Related to the practice of law - court case/legal proceeding" - there is not now, nor ever has been anything of this sort related to the subject of this entry.

"Generally (unrelated to the practice of law) - More generally, conflicts of interest can be defined as any situation in which an individual or corporation (either private or governmental) is in a position to exploit a professional or official capacity in some way for their personal or corporate benefit." There is no manipulation or interpretation of the information given. It is all true and all cross-referenced. There is no promotion or solicitation.

"Organizational" - there is no "service to the government" involved and never has been

"Conflict of interest in the health care industry" - there is no relationship with the healthcare industry whatsoever

The rest of the conflicts seem to deal with government, finance and media, none of which are an element in this entry.

With respect to this claim: "*avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;"

I do not find that precise language in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography

What this article says exactly is: "Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is an example of conflict of interest editing and is strongly discouraged." Not forbidden or unacceptable, only "discouraged" which implies very clearly that it may be permitted.

Furthermore instructions are given for the author under which circumstances such an entry is permitted to exist: "If you create an autobiography, you must have no promotional intent and must be willing to accept it being neutralized if it is not neutral, or even deleted if it comes to that. If you do turn out to be notable, you must expect the article to stay—you cannot just get it deleted because you are not happy with it."

If you feel the article is in any way not neutral please explain your reasons clearly.

With respect to being notable the fact that the subject of this article is one of only thirty one people in the world to win the prestigious MTV Video Music Award for Cinematography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Cinematography) should be reason enough. Beyond that, as presented in my defense of the David Blackburn (film editor) article, the fact that the subject of this entry was a key creative contributor to major videos for the artists linked and referenced in the article demonstrates a very high level of achievement among an elite and small fraction of people in the motion picture industry. That the subject of the article has been honored with admission into the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Visual Effects Society, both elite organizations where members are recommended and carefully vetted, should be reason enough to make the argument for notability. Articles have been published repeatedly on Brad Rushing's work in:

American Cinematographer magazine October 2004: http://www.bradrushing.com/British_Telecom.pdf August 2002: http://www.bradrushing.com/George_Michael.pdf Verify back issues here: http://store.ascmag.com/category-s/262.htm

Canadian Cinematographer Magazine May 2012: http://bradrushing.com/BradRushing-CookCounty.pdf Verify back issues here: https://www.csc-secure.com/cc_sub.htm

ICG Magazine September 2012: http://www.icgmagazine.com/web/bullseye/ October 2002: http://www.bradrushing.com/Video_Clip_Art_oct_2002.pdf June 2002: http://www.bradrushing.com/Were_all_made_June_2002.pdf Verify back issues here: http://www.icgmagazine.com/subtest.html

Taken all together I don't see how you can make a sound argument against my case in this regard.

If, in spite of my demonstration that in their own rules Wikipedia does not forbid the creation of an autobiographical entry, you want to persist on pursuing deletion of this article, please tell me what will remedy your concern.

Do you require more verifiable instances of notability?

Do you require the article to somehow be more neutral?

Are you just really fixated on the fact the article was not written by a third party?

If the latter is the main point of contention that is easily remedied. So tell me how to proceed.

Should I have third parties contribute to editing the page?

Should I have a third party completely re-do this entry? If so, how do I delete the existing entry?

Should I submit a Proposal at Articles Of Creation? If so, is there a way to transfer the existing article without completely re-writing it?

I am open to working to satisfy your concerns if you will tell me how to proceed.

After you reply please be patient with me in getting back to you. I am incredibly busy. This matter is a concern for me, but I am not able to prioritize addressing it over my paying work responsibilities.

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With respect to my edit of the "We Are All Made Of Stars" article I did not add any language including statements of value or judgement. I merely added the verifiable names of two key artistic contributors to the music video, editor David Blackburn and cinematographer Brad Rushing.

Both of their contributions are cited in the IMVDB database here: https://imvdb.com/video/moby/we-are-all-made-of-stars

Brad Rushing's work is incontrovertibly corroborated in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Best_Cinematography

Scans from ICG Magazine articles dated June and October 2002 further substantiating Brad Rushing's contribution as cinematographer and nomination for the MTV VMA Award for Best Cinematography (predating the win): http://www.bradrushing.com/Were_all_made_June_2002.pdf http://www.bradrushing.com/Video_Clip_Art_oct_2002.pdf

(ICG Magazine is a respected trade publication by IATSE Local 600 the International Cinematographers Guild which is the union all camera crew must belong to in order to work on major motion pictures, commercials and, at the time this occurred, music videos)


 * Because you are very skeptical I can anticipate you claiming the scans from the ICG article may be altered. Therefor I invite you to obtain back issues for the dates June and October 2002 to verify this information from a hard copy directly.   Back issues may be ordered here: http://www.icgmagazine.com/subtest.html

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With respect to David Blackburn, that I may know him has no bearing on the reality of his notable contributions to the industry and his work. The content of the entry should not be in doubt as citations are given for corroboration and I have explained them in greater detail in my responses to you on that page.

Again if you need some sort of process to occur to satisfy you on a technicality please let me know what that is.

As with the Brad Rushing article I could have third parties contribute to editing the page.

I could have a third party completely re-do this entry.

I could submit a Proposal at Articles Of Creation.

There are a tremendous number of people in the industry and the public who admire and respect the work of these two filmmakers. It would be no problem to have a person or people with no working relationship to them to undertake actions to satisfy you.

So please clearly inform me what those are.
 * It would be appropriate if you would declare your conflict of interest. That is all that Wikipedia is asking of you.  The instructions for doing so are made very clear on the relevant page.  This has nothing to do with notability, it has to do with the potential for conflict of interest.  It appears you have that, and that you have chosen not to disclose it forthrightly.  It's not painful, you just need to do it.  And then you need to abide by the stipulations regarding making significant changes to those articles with which you have a COI, including any you have already created.  Your reluctance to do this gives you the appearance of being underhanded, when there is no need for that at all.  Declare and then let it drop.  That is the appropriate thing to do, given what you have already done.  KDS4444 (talk) 12:15, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Fair enough. I will do this. I apologize for my confusion. I am not the most sophisticated Wikipedia editor. I have to cut and paste code from other articles and then customize it. While it is a terrific resource the deep knowledge required to effectively work the platform and the rules seem very dense and complex to me. I appreciate and respect your clarification and I will do as you say right now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.226.40.215 (talk) 18:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Just now I searched this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest for the term "declar" in hopes of finding "declare" or "declaration." Not one instance was returned. Is this the wrong page for instructions? Is the process not called "declare" or "declaration" by Wikipedia? Once more I find myself confused. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.226.40.215 (talk) 18:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Southwest Alternate Media Project for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Southwest Alternate Media Project is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Southwest Alternate Media Project until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Shaun Paul Piccinino moved to draftspace (no citations on a biography of a living person - see WP:BLP and WP:RS)
An article you recently created, Shaun Paul Piccinino, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. JW 1961  Talk  20:53, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi please note that the sources to interviews with the subject and the official website are Primary sources, IMDb is not considered a reliable source as its content is user generated.  For a Biogrpahy of a living person to remain in the main article space and not in draft it should have at least one reliable, secondary source (I would suggest something such as a quality newspaper or major news network mentioning him and his work in detail), there is less chance of the article being deleted while it is a draft being sorted out, whereas if it remained in article space it could attract a deletion very quickly.  Hope that helps and thanks for your contributions  JW 1961   Talk  21:35, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

I added more external link citations, including ones to Variety.com, Metro.co.uk and msn.com, and other notable film publications and websites, plus a few television news interviews with a CBS affiliate.

Nomination of Shaun Paul Piccinino for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cuoxo (talk) 15:02, 5 February 2021 (UTC)