User talk:MattCowley1

December 2022


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 14:36, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

December 2022


A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 14:46, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 14:51, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Dan "Plank" Rogers for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dan "Plank" Rogers is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Dan "Plank" Rogers until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  14:58, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

December 2022


A page you created has been nominated for deletion because it is a biography of a living person that is entirely negative in tone and contains unsourced content, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create articles about living people that are entirely negative in tone and unsourced. Wikipedia has a policy of verifiability and any negative information we use must be reliably sourced, and our articles must be balanced. Negative, unreferenced biographies of living people, along with other attack pages, are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy may be blocked from editing. Fram (talk) 14:58, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, MattCowley1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Biggleswade Rugby Club, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 15:15, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Bbb23, the Biggleswade rugby club page is the only page I'm going to be looking after now as I need to update the squad when new players join or leave etc. I'm not paid by anyone for this, I do it for the bettering of the club to provide the information on who is playing there etc. There's not a conflict of interest but just a interest in the club. I hope that's ok. All the best Matt. MattCowley1 (talk) 15:27, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You don't have to be paid to have a conflict of interest. You play for the club, and that means you cannot edit the team article or any page related to it. If you do, you risk being blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:26, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Dan "Plank" Rogers
Hi. Unfortunately we have had to delete this article as we have a strict policy on the biographies of living persons which states "Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—must be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion". Even if you think this person is important, you must provide adequate coverage in reliable sources that show why it is important for a general-purpose encyclopedia. Otherwise, it absolutely behooves us to err on this side of caution. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  15:22, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Ok no worries, I thought that it was ok to write about someone as long as it wasn't yourself. Will let Plank know that he can't have a article about himself. Will check more thoroughly on the rules if I make another article. All the best, Matt MattCowley1 (talk) 15:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)


 * That's not really the issue though. You were posting absolute nonsense and are lucky that you haven't been blocked over this. Oh, and your above claim that you don't have a COI wrt to the club when you actually play for them is laughable as well of course. Fram (talk) 15:36, 9 December 2022 (UTC)