User talk:DrMathMom

Your submission at Articles for creation: Leigh Bortins (January 23)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Classical Conversations (January 24)
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Umakant Bhalerao (talk) 07:08, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Classical Conversations


A tag has been placed on Draft:Classical Conversations, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Leigh Bortins


A tag has been placed on Draft:Leigh Bortins, 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, group, product, service, person, or point of view 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 deleted 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. –dlthewave ☎ 13:41, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Bbb23 (talk) 14:11, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

What topics might you edit about? 331dot (talk) 22:51, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My expertise is in K-12 math education, homeschooling, mathematics through undergraduate study, and self-efficacy and think that I would have the most to offer examining topics related to these. I am able to edit for grammar and spelling for a broader variety of topics. DrMathMom (talk) 23:09, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

My COI is very narrow to a specific homeschooling program and author who is related to that program. I don't see that that COI is a conflict with the wider homeschooling movement, with all of math education, or with self-efficacy. Since those are the areas on which I focused my dissertation, that is why I chose them as areas of expertise in which I might recognize errors or omissions. For example, the fact that so many people believe that the power of a number is its exponent is something I attempt to correct whenever I see it, but that is not related to Classical Conversations or Leigh Bortins, but is generally good math. If someone eventually writes a well cited article on either of my COIs I would not make changes unless they were well documented by independent sources and even then only if necessary to correct something that was wrong (but I will avoid all instances of both.) I was never trying to promote or sell or advertise, merely inform. The only reason I want to be unblocked is so that I can offer corrections if I encounter them. I am not seeking to be pernicious or malicious and honestly I don't plan to seek out edits after this experience. I appreciate that you need to protect Wikipedia and while it feels like a point of honor to be unblocked I have not found this to be a positive experience. Before I could even catch my breath, I was accused of only seeing to promote and no one paused a moment to say "hey - this doesn't meet our guidelines. Did you mean this? OR this is why it sounds this way" etc. On the top of the talk page, it exhorts people to make this a welcoming place, but that isn't my experience. I just felt slammed. Would I like to be unblocked? Yes. Do I feel that I can offer something to Wikipedia? Yes. Am I going to fight back and forth over whether my narrow COI should keep me from editing all of mathematics? all of education? No. You can choose to exclude me and neither of us will ever know if I could have been a productive member and that is ok. DrMathMom (talk) 01:23, 30 January 2023 (UTC)