User talk:FredShapiro42754

Fred Shapiro
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Fred Shapiro, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Fred Shapiro was changed by FredShapiro42754 (u) (t) blanking the page on 2009-02-12T00:00:48+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 00:00, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Please do not assume ownership of articles. If you aren't willing to allow your contributions to be edited extensively or be redistributed by others, please do not submit them. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 00:04, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)  Wuhwuzdat (talk) 00:05, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. - Eugene Krabs (talk) 00:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Please do not remove content from pages without explanation, as you did with this edit to Fred Shapiro. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing. Alansohn (talk) 15:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Fred Shapiro
Can you explain what you find to be inaccurate on the Fred Shapiro page? THF (talk) 15:23, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * If there is inaccuarte information, it should be corrected, but the article cites (Conrad Black's New Life Behind Bars) seems to support the claims made therein. If you are indeed the article's subject, I would strongly suggest reviewing Wikipedia policy on conflict of interest], which raises significant issues regarding editing an article about yourelf. [[User:Alansohn|Alansohn (talk) 16:39, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * However, a subject is entitled to remove inaccurate information about himself, and the conflict of interest policy does not prohibit that. But you need to give us something more than your say-so that it is inaccurate. If you still disagree with other editors' assessments, please check Requests for oversight. THF (talk) 00:37, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fred, you should send a request to WP:OTRS demonstrating that it's you, and attaching a certificate showing your police record, to show that you were never convicted in 2000-2001. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:49, 16 February 2009 (UTC)