User talk:Freetedwilliams

The article Larry Johnson (bioethics activist) has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 00:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, please don't create placeholder pages. If Mr. Johnson is notable (see WP:BIO) and has been recognized by reliable independent sources (see WP:V), write the article to reflect that before you post it.  The title isn't going anywhere.  NawlinWiki (talk) 00:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Let me try one more time. Please don't post one-sentence articles with no sources cited.  Take the time to write a good article *before* posting it.  Please read Your first article.  NawlinWiki (talk) 01:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Edits to Rick Reilly biography
Hi Freetedwilliams, your edits to Rick Reilly (example here) are both controversial and unsourced (see WP:BLP. Please do not re-add without a reliable source (major newspaper, magazine, etc.).  Also be aware of WP:3RR and please do not edit war to re-insert the material or you will be blocked.  R. Baley (talk) 01:06, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello Freetedwilliams - I'd like to echo R. Baley's comments above, and confirm that you understood them. Additionally, I question the relevance of the material you're adding to the Rick Reilly article; it may be relevant to the Ted Williams article, but a journalist like Reilly is going to report a lot of things over the course of his career.  I don't think it's relevant to include things that he reported unless he actually was part of the story (because his work in reporting it was somehow groundbreaking, because there was some controversy about journalistic methods involved, or for some other reason). Sarcasticidealist (talk) 01:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This is your final warning: the Rick Reilly article is supposed to be about Rick Reilly, not about Ted Williams. If you persist in inserting information that other editors have clearly deemed irrelevant, you will be blocked.  If you would like to debate this issue and try to convince other editors that your edits have merit, please use the article talk page. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 15:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Larry Johnson (bioethics activist)
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Larry Johnson (bioethics activist), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 14:07, 29 July 2008 (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. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 14:07, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Rick Reilly has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\byoutube\.com' (link(s): http://www.youtube.com/user/freeted). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 04:17, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Larry Johnson (bioethics activist)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Larry Johnson (bioethics activist) meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Larry Johnson (bioethics activist). Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, a neutral third party will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Sarcasticidealist (talk) 16:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)