User talk:Indynessuno

Re: Diaz Pertini school raid
First of all, do not make legal threats, or I will immediately and perhaps indefinitely block you on those grounds as per Wikipedia policy. Second, I have no issue with the importance (or lack thereof, if applicable) of the events. I deleted the article itself (N.B.: not the discussion page, which was where your essay was located) because it had been tagged with a proposed deletion template for the required length of time. Anyone could have removed that template at will. Furthermore, although it was not tagged as such, I noted in my deletion summary (for the article) that it (the article itself) qualified for speedy deletion criterion A3.

Once this was done, the talk page (or discussion page, where your essay was located) qualified for speedy deletion criterion G8. I ignored the essay as present there because it was not part of the article content and the page itself had been deleted.

I have no personal problem with your essay, and I among most other Wikipedia editors and administrators appreciate, to an extent, your efforts to add to the encyclopedia. I don't doubt that you are Mark Covell - I extend that trust to you (on the other hand, I have never heard of any Mark Covell before today). Please assume good faith, I hope to address your concerns, not fight you. In addition, you call me a part of "management". To be sure that you are aware (you may be, that is ambiguous), although I have been granted administrator priviledges to delete and protect pages and block users (and reverse those actions), I do not represent Wikimedia in any official sense. Further, what you quote from my userpage is a statement of my political position as determined by a standardized quiz - you appear to misunderstand what it is, as it is not (as far as I can tell) analogous to the score you attribute to yourself.

You can create an article on the subject (since you have an account), although as a Wikipedia article, there are a number of criteria that must be met. Below are the two criteria I think have the potential to be the most problematic for you in your goal to create such an article.
 * 1) Notability. Wikipedia articles that do not demonstrate the notability of their subject are deleted under speedy deletion criterion A7. It is advisable to cite reliable sources to prove notability: dubious unsourced claims of notability are often ignored. Your article might be deleted regardless - I do not know anything about the event's relative notability.
 * 2) Neutral point of view. All articles must conform to an objective neutral point of view. This means that facts are presented objectively and major viewpoints presented dispassionately. This is one of the core policies of the encyclopedia, and is listed as one of the five pillars of Wikipedia. You might want to note that your great involvement in the events predisposes you to certain attitudes about those events - you are biased, something which would not be accepted in writing about the subject. Further, your involvement means that you may have a conflict of interest with the subject. I recommend you read about the Wikipedia guideline on conflicts of interest, because your involvement with the subject is evident in your essay.

I recommend that you file a request at Articles for creation for your article to be reviewed by another Wikipedia editor before posting - this would help ensure that your article is not deleted again. I will not restore the previous content, but you are free to write another article. I hope that you can understand that I mean well - I hope that your efforts lead to a well-written article (that conforms to policy and guidelines).

I have copied this message to your user talk page, although I would appreciate discussion to be kept central at my user talk page - please post at User talk:Nihiltres rather than elsewhere.

Respectfully yours, Nihiltres ( t .l ) 03:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)