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Request for oversight of your edits has been filed
See Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard. Your substantial edits to biographies of Republican politicians, whether or not you yourself are a consultant named Gary Maloney, suggest violation of the policy WP:COI. 207.228.237.110 (talk) 15:40, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Go ahead -- everything is factual and as up-to-date as I can make it, which is the point of Wikipedia. Under no circumstances have I posted, or will I post something that isn't factual. GaryWMaloney (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

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I left a response here. Let's keep it on the relevant page, please. Nothing personal. -- Quinn CLOUDY 04:27, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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Greg Orman doesn't have a Wikipedia article because he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Senate — he has an article because it makes and sources a credible claim that he was already notable as a businessman before becoming a candidate. The issue is that with extremely rare exceptions, if a person's notability is hitched solely to the candidacy itself, then it's almost impossible to write an article about them that's actually encyclopedic in tone and format and sourcing, rather than reading like the kind of "meet your candidate, and learn his opinions on the issues" backgrounder that could be sent out in the politician's own campaign literature — which, per our WP:NPOV rules, is not the type of article that any politician (candidate or incumbent) gets to keep on here. As well, there's an important principle on here that we are WP:NOTNEWS — our role here is not to cover every single thing that gets into a newspaper for a day or two, but to look past the daily news and figure out what readers are still going to need to know 10 years from now. And normally, election candidates don't pass that test until they've won the seat and become incumbent politicians — there have been and can be occasional exceptions where the candidacy itself is enough to get them into Wikipedia because the volume of coverage ends up going way beyond the norm (Christine O'Donnell is the textbook example of how that can happen) — but that's not automatically true for all candidates who exist at all, because a lot of election coverage is just WP:ROUTINE stuff no different than what all candidates can always expect to get. Bearcat (talk) 21:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Danny L. Diaz and others


I see that you have had a call before to the conflict-of-interest noticeboard, posted on this talkpage above. I have to ask you: are your edits to Danny L. Diaz and other GOP related people compensated in any way? Are you aware of Wikipedia's terms of service requirements of disclosure outlined at WP:PAID and that recent decisions have clarified "compensated" to include things like endorsements and exchanges of publicity? ☆ Bri (talk) 00:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your question, Bri. The answer is -- absolutely not. No compensation of any kind - everything is fact-based and cited, and these people long ago passerd the Notabiulity threshold. I created pages for Diaz, Ahearn, Poitevint and Bennecke - years ago - because they were and remain important if underappreciated political figures, and (per guidelines on encyclopedic content) included FAILURES, LOSSES and MISTAKES, as well as successes. This is especially true of the Finkelstein and Pizzella pages, to which I contributed but did not create. The Finkelstein page in particular has been a major project -- the Wiki page is absolutely the only comprehensive review of Finkelstein's long career, and 220+ cites speak for themselves, with many controversies duly noted and discussed. My background and training is in journalism, and we learned standards there.

I myself was the subject of a substandard and negative Wiki entry many years ago -- it was then that I learned the rules, and have strived to adhere closely to them. Happy to defend any of these entries and articles. GaryWMaloney (talk) 01:14, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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Reversion of edit on Randy Stuart
Your edit summary says, "IMDB is accurate here". What is your basis for saying that? Eddie Blick (talk) 00:33, 28 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Eddie, I think your heart is in the right place -- IMDB may not be the most accurate source, in some cases. In the case of Randy Stuart and her TV / movie career, after extensive research, I have found IMDB to be at least 95% accurate. Take the film, The Foxes of Harrow -- it is a 20th Century Fox film (she was a Fox contract player); she is not mentioned in the meager cast credits (typical of the time), but she is listed as uncredited in IMDB. Well, I watched the film, and in the first two minutes, there is Stuart, unmistakably her, that familiar voice, lying in bed, having just given birth to the baby that would become Rex Harrison. Now, I could supply a snapshot from the film to present as evidence, but IMDB has got it right, and it's the only handy available cite.


 * Multiply that over much of Stuart's career -- I have collected about 20 of her TV episodes, including the Bonanza ep from the early 60s, and the two late-60s Dragnet eps where she plays the wife of Harry Morgan. Some of these appearances have snapshots of Stuart available through Google -- see here, but most do not. But I tracked down the eps from these, from 77 Sunset Strip, Bronco etc. through IMDB -- and that encyclopedia was right -- IN STUART'S CASE. She was in all the Wyatt Earp eps they named, and in no more from that season (1959-60).


 * Lane Allan (real name Albert C. Wootten) was married to Stuart, and was the father of two of her three children, both of whom carry that last name. One lives in southern Oregon, the other in the Bakersfield area. IMDB got that right too (Allan had a couple minor film roles, so he's on the database himself). That marriage ended because we know from other sources she married Ernest Wallis in 1971, and were together until his death in 1982.


 * What would you have me do, if (for example) I own a copy of her Bonanza appearance from March 1961. What cite do you recommend, Eddie? The cast list at the end of the program? Or what about a pic like this ? In these cases, IMDB is a CONVENIENCE for us Wiki writers, and I don't think we should give it up so easily. I DO agree that no article should rely primarily on IMDB -- and this one doesn't.


 * I'll close with this -- there is a promo still photograph of Stuart made up to look quite young, with the clear cite that it is from The Happy Years, a 1950 MGM film. The pic is definitely Stuart, see here -- HOWEVER, the MGM cast list does not include Stuart -- and neither does IMDB (among the uncredited parts)! For this reason, I have NOT added this to her filmography. My guess is, she was part of the footage filmed, and then her part was edited out. (Further, I have not examined the film personally.) Thanks for the discussion. GaryWMaloney (talk) 05:34, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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