User talk:Lumpytrout


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January 2010
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Speedy deletion nomination of Aloha Travel Trailers
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Speedy deletion nomination of Aloha Travel Trailer
A tag has been placed on Aloha Travel Trailer requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

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I have moved this to User:Lumpytrout/Aloha Travel Trailer. where you can work on it and try to establish notability, in like with our guideline for business articles DES (talk) 07:23, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Aloha Travel Trailers


The article Aloha Travel Trailers has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No reliable sources given or found to establish notability of a company. Company appears to actually be "Aloha Trailer Company", but no good sources found for that either.

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Articles for deletion nomination of Aloha Travel Trailers
I have nominated Aloha Travel Trailers, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/Aloha Travel Trailers. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. tedder (talk) 17:07, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Please join the discussion
Hi there, I was looking into the notability of the Aloha Travel Trailer company and I found your blog. I just commented there too. No offense, but it's always kind of strange to me that people go to their blogs to complain about Wikipedia but don't engage in discussion at Wikipedia. It's true that many processes on Wikipedia are a pain in the ass, but the community is also built on collaboration and discussion, so if you contribute, you may have a better chance of the article you started being kept. You'll find the community of editors in Oregon are very willing to do research and help people out if they are willing to meet us halfway. So assume good faith and please join in the discussion at Articles for deletion/Aloha Travel Trailers or start a discussion at Talk:Aloha Travel Trailers. I personally suspect that this is lost bit of Oregon business and cultural history that is a victim of the FUTON bias and I'm willing to try to help rescue the article. Cheers, Katr67 (talk) 17:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Beacon Food Forest


A tag has been placed on Beacon Food Forest requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Proposed deletion of Beacon Food Forest


The article Beacon Food Forest has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * WP:TOOSOON. Hasn't been developed yet, sources are only routine.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:42, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of 4Culture


The article 4Culture has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * relatively minor branch of a county government--no third party sources, and none would be expected except routine notices.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. &#39;DGG (at NYPL)&#39; (talk) 20:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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I'm not going to restore the deletion notice for the moment. . If you improve it, I will not want to delete it; if I do decide I would like to have it deleted, the only way I can do that is to use the WP:AFD procedure, where the suggested deletion is discussed, and some other administrator decides what the community thinks. The problem in any case is not just notability as much as promotionalism.

What you need to do to improve the article so nobody will want to delete it is to make it less promotional. You cannot include in the article any judgments of value, unless you can cite them from some published third party reliable source. For example, you cannot say " to provide public services with the agility and flexibility of the private sector; to provide services more efficiently than an agency of government", unless you can provide published evidence that a reliable source has said that you provide such agility and flexibility and efficiency.

You cannot say "unique programs" unless you can prove them unique; you cannot say you meet community needs unless you can prove it. You cannot say "world-class", or "distinctive", or "culturally relevant" or "first" unless you can prove them. The proof must not be derived from your own press releases, or your own statements of intentions,

The best way to accomplish this is to give references to what you have funded, and what the published opinions were about it. There is one problem: we normally expect local programs to have more than just local significance,, and not just local news sources. But this is subject to interpretation; the interpretation is made by the consensus at the AfD.. Good luck with it. &#39;DGG (at NYPL)&#39; (talk) 20:48, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Okay, thank you for your input DGG, I just added some better resources and I will work on the wording. Just for the record however, I wanted to point out that I do not work for 4Culture in any capacity. I work in the arts in Seattle and I am familiar with this organization but any tone of promotional-ism probably comes more from my own laziness and lack of writing skills. I will work on better wording on this. thanks again, Lumpytrout (talk) 14:48, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

clearly I'm not that good with the wikipedia, I maybe edit something once every few months and I consider myself a very ethical contributor. I do use a proxy blocker as anyone who has any security issues on the web should, but I don't think that I have ever edited anything with the blocker engaged. I'm not even sure if I'm doing this correctly but I need to get unblocked. Is this what I need to do?!?


 * You need to fill in the IP, autoblock message, and the blocking admin in the template above. — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 19:22, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

-um thanks, I was trying to figure out how to do this and now it looks like I am unblocked, still in a bit of a pickle trying to figure out why this happened but all good now.

Unblock

 * This account is not blocked. If it's just the VPN stopping you from editing, then turning it off (or otherwise not editing through one) will allow you to edit Wikipedia just fine. (In case you're wondering, we disallow editing through anonymising services and open proxies because they are routinely abused, especially by some of our most prolific vandals.) — Jeremy  v^_^v  Bori! 07:49, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Valfontis/Aloha Trailer Company
User:Valfontis/Aloha Trailer Company, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Valfontis/Aloha Trailer Company and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:Valfontis/Aloha Trailer Company during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 06:18, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Tsutakawa
Hi Joel, I've been having a lot of fun learning and writing about Northwest artists, whose work I like so much. It was especially fun expanding and improving the article on George Tsutakawa, as he was a friend of my grandfather Dudley Pratt, and I had the pleasure of meeting him on a couple of occasions.

So great that Gerry is digitizing photos of George and his work! He'll have to be a little bit careful about adding to the article (impartiality rules, etc.) but if it's photos with simple descriptive captions, it shouldn't be a problem at all.

Adding 3rd party photos can be tricky; I've found that the best approach is to assume that they ARE copyrighted (even if you have no idea if they are or not, or even if they most likely are NOT copyrighted), and then be very thorough in the 'reasons for use' part of the upload file, stressing that the use is strictly for educational purposes. Also, counterintuitive though it may sound, I've found it's best to use smaller, slightly lower quality photo files, as they're less likely to be swiped and used for commercial reproduction.

I really look forward to seeing anything Gerry adds. George was such a master! Thank you very much for writing. - Tom

Love the photo you added to the article! Thank you! Please do let me know whenever/wherever Gerry posts more. - Tom thomasdprice@yahoo.com