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Vandalism
In response to your defence of your vandalism. Yes, your vandalism was a smart alec comment, not a hurtful slander. So is much of the vandalism by adolescents. It's still a damned pain for Wikipedia to have to deal with it, whether it comes from an adolescent boy or a middle-aged Harvard academic behaving like an adolescent boy. Wikipedia works because the level of vandalism is just about within the bounds that Wikipedians can cope with. If it was significantly higher it would drive people away and the project would start to fail (or would never have got far in the first place). Any action which tends to suggest that vandalising Wikipedia is no big deal threatens that fragile balance and is therefore irresponsible. Publicised vandalism by a Harvard academic (I found the Crimson article very easily on Google News) is highly likely to lead to copycat experiments by students or by teachers at less well known institutions, who may think that if it is a smart thing for you to do, it will be smart for them to do it too.Piccadilly 11:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Rick Levine
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CALDOL
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Speedy deletion nomination of CALDOL


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Speedy deltion request reversed
The speedy deletion tag was an error, and has been removed.-- SPhilbrick  T  19:28, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

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Double Bottom Line revert
Dweinberger,

This is to let you know that I consider your deletion and characterization of my hard-researched edits of the Double bottom line Wikipedia article as vandalism. The operational concepts expressed in the article are exercised by large non-profit organizations, through-out the western industrialized world. What makes you think you know better? You should think twice before you trash the work of others. HamiltonFromAbove (talk) 01:29, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

A few helpful tips and encouragement from an admirer of your work ...
I'm noticing you haven't edited much since the kerfluffle above, with an editor who isn't entirely clear yet on the difference between an encyclopedic tone and promotional materials, and I'd like to encourage you to try editing here again sometime.

Here's a bit of what I've picked up about interacting on this site.

Since most folks are amateurs and volunteers, the best policy is to take the attitude, "thanks for putting something up to get this topic going, let's see what we can do with it."

You want to propose major changes on the talk pages before carrying them out, and put any corrections regarding your own off-wiki work on the talk page. (If nobody fixes the article for you, ask for help at the appropriate WikiProject or the Teahouse.)

When cleaning up something messy, it can help to use rather brief edit summaries that link to the instructions for Wikipedia editorial style. This is often covered by "copyedit for WP:NPOV", "removing uncited material, as per WP:VERIFY", "copyediting and/or reorganizing as per WP:MOS", "trimming promotional material as per WP:SPAM."

And, nothing beats making connections in person, at a Wikipedia meetup! Djembayz (talk) 00:16, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: News media APIs has been accepted
 News media APIs, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as List-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. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Fiddle  Faddle  16:23, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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Nomination of Craig Cline for deletion
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Seeking feedback on Communication Theory page overhaul
Hi! In the past, you commented on the Communication theory talk page, and now I've written a replacement article (discussion at Talk:communication_theory). I'm eager for feedback on the overhaul -- I put the new article in my sandbox.Kaylea Champion (talk) 22:23, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of news media APIs


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