User talk:Mikefitzhistorian

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Hi Mikefitzhistorian, unfortunately your start as Wikipedia contributor has some problems. Assuming that you are Michael FitzGerald, the creation of that article is at odds with our guideline Autobiography. Also, adding references to your own books (especially if this are you only edits to an article) is likely to rise objections. --Pjacobi 19:11, 15 July 2006 (UTC) Dear Mr Jacobi

I have tried to contact you by e-mail and through the internal and somewhat labyrinthine organisation of this site without success. Hope this particular way of trying to resolve the problem will help. I take the point on my own article. However, I have NOT only given references to my own books and if you read the other articles to which I have added information you will clearly see this.

Incidentally, I am NOT '3 Lions', whoever he is. Nor have I ever, nor indeed would I, ever indulge in vandalism. I take great exception to having been blocked from editing when I am a published historian, author of four works and a prizewinning author who has been asked to undertake research for newspapers, magazines, radio and television programmes. I shall be attending the Cambridge History Festival between 3rd and 6th August and will be meeting (among others) Peter Furtado, editor of 'History Today' and Clare McGinn, head of BBC History Unit at Radio 4. I have also corresponded with Professors Ian Kershaw and Peter Stachura. My work has also been translated into Japanese. I am a serious and reputable historian and take great exception to being accused of being a vandal. Perhaps you can get this absurd block on my ability to edit lifted as well.

I have to say that I consider Wikipedia to be an exceptionally difficult site to navigate. It is difficult to navigate between articles, between sites, and the linkage on the site is incredibly hit and miss. I know that my own website is rather amateurishly done but then I am not a web designer.

I hope that you can resolve this situation quickly as there are a great many articles on Wikipedia to which I can add updated and more accurate information (not only on the Nazi period either, I have other areas of expertise).

Yours sincerely,

Michael FitzGerald, BA (Hons), ALA, CTEFLA

Dear Mr FitzGerald,

I'm in a hurry but I try to give you some pointers to enhance your Wikipedia experience (and to enhance Wikipedia's experience of your edits).


 * Yes, Wikipedia is confusing, mainly because it is grown very large and newcomers are unaware of a lot of written and unwritten conventions. But its ability to get still growing numbers of contributors shows, that these obstacles can be overcome. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask me on my user talk page. You should also give the (rather large) page Community_Portal a visit, a lot of useful information is linked from there.
 * You can reach me by e-mail via the "e-mail this user" link on the sidebar, this is the same link, to ease things. Vut you need to give an e-mail address in your Wikipedia settings to make this work. Anyway, except for cases which require confidentiality, use of talk pages for communication is preferred.
 * To the best of my knowledge you aren't blocked and never were blocked, there is log of blocks to check this and searching for your user name gives no entries: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Mikefitzhistorian -- if you use dialup Internet access with dynamic IPs, you may have been blocked as side effect of blocking an vandal which had the same IP. Disconnect and dial in again will normally fix this.

Pjacobi 10:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hitler Myth
Hi

I started the page originally (as a stop-gap, hence its brevity). I hope you don't object to the caveats i've added to your expansion - the powers that be on wikipedia like them as it avoids the stigma of providing a POV (Point of View). I realise that wikipedia can seems like the Library of Babel at times, but its worth continuing. Incidentally i've added an 'unblock' on this page, which should help unblock you if this is still the case. May i recommend Portal:Classical Civilisation which is the portal i founded, or Portal:History? Cordially yours. Pydos 10:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


 * You aren't directly blocked, the section entitled "Innocent?" in the block message gives you some background on this, however as the unblock tag says ""If the block message says that your IP address is blocked or that your IP address was recently used by a blocked user, please paste the block message or post your IP address below as we have no way of unblocking you if your username itself was not blocked", post that info and I can look to unblock. --pgk( talk ) 17:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)