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I noticed that you edited an article on Darren Barefoot. Had I not been mistaken, I assume you are that person, I wish to point out that Wikipedia has a policy on autobiography that it is discouraged for one to edit an article about him/herself (due to conlfict of interest), although the person is always welcome to discuss about it.

Also, I removed the "proposed deletion" tag since based on your work and information the article should go to a detailed discussion on Articles for deletion. SYSS Mouse 17:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. As I specified in the entry's discussion page, I mainly tried to correct inaccuracies and add sources, which seems in line with Wikipedia's guidelines on autobiography. I also added a line about the Second Life parody, because I believe that's what motivated this entry's creator in the first place. Dbarefoot 18:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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I don't care for Canada Free Press any more than you do. I was doing a little digging hoping to demonstrate that his credentials are similar to other ones I recently uncovered. However, after turning up his thesis, honesty compelled me to report what appears to be accurate information. Ben Hocking (talk 16:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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I haven't created many Wikipedia pages over the years, maybe a dozen? And these days I only make a few significant edits or changes per years.

However, since March of this year, a particular user has proposed four of the pages I've created for deletion. They also proposed the page about me for deletion (which is fair enough, it doesn't meet contemporary notability criteria). The first three pages were all kept. The fourth is currently up for deletion.

I don't know if this user has a peculiar vendetta against me, or is just a high-volume deleter of pages. Whether or not it's this user's intent, his consistent deletion proposals have had a chilling effect on my contributions to Wikipedia.

In the past, I've been interested to contribute to Wikipedia in areas where it's lacking--in theatre actors and playwrights, for example. However, I'm discouraged from any further work if my contributions are going to be so regularly assailed.

In essence, I'm looking for advice on how to proceed.

Dbarefoot (talk) 23:55, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I would try not to take it personally. From the looks of things, they found one article written by you that might have not been up to scratch, and then proceeded to check your creation history. I used to do it myself before I realized that it was neither productive nor conducive towards building an encyclopedia. If they nominate every page you create, then chances are it's because they have beef with you and you might have a case at WP:ANI, but from what I've seen it looks like they just got a bit overly critical about a few pages they came across.
 * I do know it's hard sometimes not to take it personally when a bunch of hard work and effort gets rejected/ignored/etc, but if you keep doing good work for Wikipedia you'll eventually forget about ol' whatsisname that tried deleting a few pages back in the day. If there's anything I can help out with in the future, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers, Primefac (talk) 02:22, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. It's not so much a question of taking it personally, but of the shifting calculus I do before investing future time in Wikipedia. Why would I, when my reward is getting to defend sound articles against deletion? Dbarefoot (talk) 04:10, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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