User talk:Dmcemaverick

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Dmcemaverick, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Michael Cassidy (evangelist) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:03, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Warning for Vandalism
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Graeme Codrington. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you.

Hi there, Dmcemaverick. You have been vandalising the entry associated with me on Wikipedia, adding incorrect and possibly libellous information to the page.

For your reference, you created a "Controversy" section, with two main issues. The first is my use of the title "Doctor". I refer you to my personal webpage, where you will find no reference to a doctoral title at all. I have a detailed CV in which I indicate that I did indeed study a DBA programme through Rushmore university, partly in order to assess how these programs operated, but indicate clearly that Rushmore is not accredited and that I do not use the Dr title. The second controversy is completely fabricated. Many people have disagreed with many things I have said, and some people will not engage with me because of these things, but they do not rise to the level of career and life controversies.

Your addition of the label "scammer" to my descriptors is unacceptable.

I have corrected the entry, and ask you not to re-instate your vandalism content. GraemeCod (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Its clear that you do not know how to use Wikipedia to check who made wha https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Graeme_Codrington&diff=prev&oldid=1112670079
 * The reference to the use of the title Doctor is recorded in several places. It is on Youtube where you introduce yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raYBR-dyS8E&list=PLH4yciXjrr9pgkLhazIsfeKkGaJDbljq0&index=30
 * Furthermore you are on the faculty of IMS and introduced as Dr: https://ims-online.com/faculty/Dr.-Graeme-Codrington/167
 * You contract with numerous speaker bureaus all who have your Bio as Dr:https://conferencespeakers.co.za/dr-graeme-codrington-inspiring-futurist/ as an example. Are all the speaker bureaus misrepresenting you? If so they should be corrected!
 * Another reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emK6T9CbUbo where once again 3 weeks ago, you are referred to as Dr Codrington. A careful google search reveals 2320 pages where you are referred to as Dr and 171 videos.
 * Also look at this podcast recorded in the last 12 months, where you are introduced as "Dr" and make no attempt to correct or clarify. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FcgFu7SEmU It is clear from this and numerous other examples that you use this title and make no attempt to clarify and/or correct that.
 * In addition you are listed as "Dr" on a recent Wits Business School(WBS) article describing the launch of their new MBA Advisory Committee, article date 7th April, 2022. Its therefore disingenuous for you to claim you dont use the the title Dr.
 * Once again the use of Wikipedia revisions will indicate that the second controversy was not added by myself . Dmcemaverick (talk) 12:46, 17 February 2023 (UTC)